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Anita Rani. Anita sits in for Jo Whiley,
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spectrum and quality vintage songs too
9. 00 The Country Show with Bob Harris.
Bob celebrates 50 years on-air in a special
programme looking back at his half century
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songs and live music from Mary Chapin
Carpenter. See Radio Choice
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1 1.00 Edinburgh International Festival
Debussy (Cello Sonata); Kodály (Sonata for
solo cello, Op 8); Marais (Suite in D minor);
and Poulenc (Cello Sonata) (r)
1 .00pm Composer of the Week:
Dvorák (1841-1904)
Dvorák (Piano Trio in E minor, Op 90 —
Dumkyy— Allegro; Cello Concerto in B minor,
Op 104 — 2nd movt — Adagio ma non troppo;
Violin Sonatina in G, Op 100; Biblical Songs,
Op 99 — Oh, my Shepherd is the Lord & By
the shore of the river of Babylonn; String
Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 — Americann —
Lento; and Symphony No 9, Op 95 —
From the New Worldd — 1st movt —
Adagio-Allegro molto) (r)2. 00 Afternoon Concert
Penny Gore presents this BBC Prom from
August 2012 in which the BBC Singers and
BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by
Jane Glover, are joined by a cast of soloists
to perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s
The Yeomen of the Guardd, from London’s
Royal Albert Hall. Gilbert and Sullivan
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An eclectic non-stop mix of music,
featuring old favourites together with
lesser-known gems, and a few surprises
thrown in for good measure
7 .30 BBC Proms 2020
Martin Handley presents this 2001 Prom
from the Royal Albert Hall featuring the
London Symphony Orchestra performing
Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony under the baton
of Colin Davis, prefaced by pieces from
Sibelius and Tippett. London Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Colin Davis.
Sibelius (The Oceanidess, Op 73);
Tippett (The Rose Lakee); and Beethoven
(Symphony No 6 in F, Pastoral) (r) - 00 Between the Ears:
The In-Between Land
Deaf shepherd poet Josephine Dickinson
discusses her work on a sound installation
exploring her perception of the world and the
influence of her North Pennine home (r)
1 0.30 Culture in Quarantine:
Sounds of Silence
Soumik Datta talks to thecellist Su-a Lee
from her temporary home near the Old Spey
Bridge in Moray, where she considers what
her future will look like with the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra and how the classical
world adapt after the global crisis of 2020
1 0.45 The Essay: Five Screen Gods
Sarah Churchwell profiles movie leading man
Joel McCrea, star of Westerns and crime
capers who refused to do films if the
characters did not possess moral fibre (r)
1 1. 00 BBC Proms 2 020
Paul Hillier and his renowned ensemble
Theatre of Voices have made Karlheinz
Stockhausen’s Stimmung, a work for six
singers and six microphones, one of their
signature pieces. Here they bring the piece to
the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall in this
BBC Prom from August 2008. Presented by
Louise Fryer. Ian Dearden (sound projection),
Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier.
Stockhausen: Stimmung (r)
1 2.30am Through the Night
Brahms and Vaughan Williams (r)
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Allegations against Juan Carlos, the former
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1 1.30 Tales from the Stave
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Francine Stock recalls Earl Cameron
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Natasha questions her own judgment7. 15 Front Row
7 .45 Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing
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Gregg Oppenheimer’s drama about the
making of I Love Lucyy (4/5)
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David Aaronovitch discusses big issues in the
news (9/18)
8.3 0 In Business
The impact of Black Lives Matter on business
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9 .30 The Infinite Monkey Cage
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question the existence of time (r) (7/9)
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Radio 2, 9pmCan it really be 50 years
since “Whispering” Bob
Harris, above, first took
to the air waves? This
anniversary programme
looks back at his half-
century as a music
broadcaster, which began
when he presented his first
programme for Radio 1,
continued with his work
on the pioneering rock
showcase The Old Grey
Whistle Test on TV in the
1970s and, of course, on
Radio 2, where the country
music host has been a
favourite presenter for more
than 20 years. Tonight’s
show features some of his
favourite songs, along with
live music from Mary
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThere Are No Fakes
Sky Arts
{{{{(Heathrow: Britain’s
Busiest Airport
ITV
{{(((F
aking a painting to fool the
art world is hardly the worst
crime. Yes, it’s lowlife and
fraudulent, but I can think
of a hundred more terrible
things to keep me awake at night.
We’ve just had Isis. So I wondered
how There Are No Fakes would
sustain my interest for nearly two
hours.
It centred on Kevin Hearn, the
guitarist and keyboard player with akindly face from the Barenaked Ladies
who in 2005 spent $20,000 on what
he was told was a Norval Morrisseau
painting, a green and snakey thing
that I actually quite liked, so it shows
what I know. But it was a fake, so he
sued the seller. I admit that $20,
is $19,950 more than I have spent on
art, but we’re hardly talking a stolen
Picasso are we? It seemed relatively
small potatoes.
Yet as so often, I was wrong. Because
even though this film was too long
and repetitive and could have shed
30 minutes’ flab, it was a rolling
snowball that got bigger and bigger
and darker and darker, holding back
twists that were worthy of Fargo, until
it stopped as a giant, stinking boulder.
This was a masterclass in controlled
storytelling.
For the first half it seemed as if we
were just diving down a rabbit hole of
dodgy dealers, seedy auctioneers and
Del Boy “experts” who seemed like
joke figures, if a little menacing (one
said he would like to shoot a man who
accused him of dealing in fakes).
Yes, there was the ugly truth that
here was a dead indigenous artist
being exploited by a bunch of greedy
white men, his legacy diluted by
mass-produced tat. Morrisseau, who
struggled with alcohol addiction, was
surrounded by shady, exploitative
figures and died of Parkinson’s in 2007.
Yet towards the end came a descentinto something more sinister than I
could have imagined when we started
in a small art gallery. If you haven’t
seen it yet don’t read on, but this was
a world of serial, grotesque rape and
extreme violence. Two rape survivors,
Dallas and Amanda, gave their
astonishing testimonies with an
understatement that only heightened
the atrociousness. This was not a film
about art fakery at all; it was about the
shameless horror of human greed.
Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport
was a cautionary lesson in filming
documentaries months before a
pandemic. With maskless people
hugging and flying wherever they
wanted, it instantly looked as dated
as a Sony Walkman. It kept saying
how the world had changed, but
that didn’t stop it looking like a
museum piece.
With its eccentric characters,
jobsworths and non-stories, it was
almost as parodic as Come Fly with Me,
the spoof by David Walliams and Matt
Lucas. There was a briefly exciting
moment when a disruptive man was
kicked off a plane, hid in the airport
toilets, told police he was “a doctor
and a lord” and stuffed his suit bag in
the women’s sanitary bin. Finally,
something juicy, especially when
Terry and Dave, our resident airport
coppers, arrested him. But “no further
action” was taken. Ah. Nothing to see
Kevin Hearn’s purchase led him to a brutal art forgery ring here, then. Move along.A fake painting that hid a world of real horror
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