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Ken Bruce 12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve
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Playlist. Jo plays her favourite album tracks
and musical gems rarely heard on Radio 2
7.30 Jo Whiley. For the Radio 2 Culture Club,
Jo chats to Michelin-starred chef Paul
Ainsworth about seasonal produce and what
to do with it 9.00 The Country Show with
Bob Harris. A personal selection of music
from across the generations 10.00 Trevor
Nelson’s Rhythm Nation. The DJ introduces a
mix of R’n’B and soulful tunes 12.00 OJ Borg
3.00am Sounds of the 90s with Fearne
Cotton (r) 4.00 A Dance Through the
Decades 4.30 Vanessa FeltzRadio 3
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6.30am Breakfast
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News. 7.30, 8.30 News headlines.
Presented by Hannah French
9.00 Essential Classics
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical
music, with familiar favourites, new
discoveries and the occasional surprise
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Cherubini (1760-1842)
Cherubini visits Vienna, where his operas are
sell-outs, and he meets two of the leading
composers of the day — Haydn and
Beethoven. After enjoying a series of
triumphs on the Viennese stage, in 1806
Cherubini made a hasty retreat back
to his home in Paris, but the reasons
behind this move are none too clear1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Sarah Walker introduces highlights from this
year’s Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, including
pieces by Debussy and Brahms. Debussy
(Préludes, Book 2; La puerta del vino; Les
fées sont d’exquises danseuses; Général
Lavine — eccentric; Les tierces alternées; and
Feux d’artifice) Marc-André Hamelin (piano).
Brahms (Four Duets, op. 61) Julia Kleiter
(soprano), Ida Aldrian (mezzo-soprano).
Wolfram Rieger (piano). Schubert (Four
Impromptus, D. 899) David Fray (piano)
2.00 Afternoon Concert (Live)
Penny Gore presents music from the BBC
performing groups and from around Europe,
featuring a live performance by the BBC
Philharmonic from the orchestra’s home in
Salford. Tom McKinney leads the star-gazing,
with a space-inspired sequence of music
curated by the composer Robert Laidlow and
conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Music by
Laidlow himself links works by composers as
diverse as astronomer William Herschel,
Missy Mazzoli and Benjamin Britten.
Then back to London with more from Jordi
Savall’s 80th birthday concert celebrating
the fusion between East and West, and
Mozart’s evergreen Clarinet Concerto
5.00 In Tune
Katie Derham is joined by perhaps the
Kurdish singer Aynur Dogan
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
An eclectic non-stop mix of music
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
John Toal introduces a special concert of
music and readings to celebrate the BBC’s
40-year partnership with the Ulster
Orchestra. Chloë Hanslip (violin),
Andrew Douglas (flute), Neil Martin
(uilleann pipes), Richard Gowers (organ),
Ulster Orchestra, Stephen Bell (conductor)
10.00 Free Thinking
Laurence Scott’s guests showcasing their
research at this year’s Being Human Festival
are Dr Claire Wood, Dr Anna Feigenbaum, Dr
Anna Potter and Professor Matthew Rubery
10.45 Between the Ears: New Creatives
Quilts of Love, by Tom Foskett-Barnes,
focusing on the UK Aids Memorial Quilt that
was unfolded in its entirety in July 2021
11.00 Night Tracks
Hannah Peel presents a soundtrack for
late-night listening, from classical to
contemporary and everything in between
11.30 Unclassified
Elizabeth Alker plays music from the
London Jazz Festival, looking at the
ongoing sonic conversation between
improvised and ambient music
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8.45 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament
9.00 In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siblings
William and Caroline Herschel (9/16)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
9.45 Book of the Week: All the
Frequent Troubles of Our Days
By Rebecca Donner (4/5)
10.00 Woman’s Hour
Topical conversation offering a female
perspective on the world, presented by
Emma Barnett. Including at 10.59
Big Ben and Armistice Day Silence
11.00 From Our Own Correspondent
Reports from across the globe (8/8)
11.30 Dostoevsky and the Russian Soul
Examining what Dostoevsky’s life and work
can reveal about Russia today
12.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
12.04 The Last Resort
By Jan Carson (4/10) (r)
12.18 You and Yours
1.00 The World at One
1.45 A History of the World in 100
Objects
A drum brought from Sudan for Queen
Victoria by Horatio Kitchener (r)
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: This Thing of Darkness
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3.00 Open Country
Helen Mark takes a walk into the secret
forests of Britain (5/16)
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal
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3.30 Bookclub
James Naughtie talks to the Norwegian
writer Maja Lunde (r)
4.00 The Curious Cases of
Rutherford & Fry
Examining whether toxic creatures would
react badly to the poison they themselves
produce. Last in the series
4.30 BBC Inside Science
The latest scientific research
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5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
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The walls close in on Kirsty7.15 Front Row
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11.00 Date Night
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The story of Karen Dalton, the folk world’s
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Joe ClayThis Thing of
Darkness
Radio 4, 2.15pm
The gripping 2020 drama
exploring the psychological
impact of murder on a
victim’s family and on the
killer won for best fiction at
the 2021 British Podcast
awards. Dr Gwen Adshead,
a forensic psychiatrist who
has provided therapy for
violent offenders, is a
consultant on the series,
which returns for a second
run. Lolita Chakrabarti,
above, reprises her role
as Dr Alex Bridges
(a fictional version of
Adshead), whose first
subject is Sarah, a woman
who has just been released
from prison after serving
ten years for arson. Does
she still pose a threat to
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsK
ate Garraway has that rarest
of qualities in a TV
presenter: she is impossible
to dislike (others have the
opposite effect). What
helped to consolidate her national
treasure status when she suffered the
living hell of her husband Derek
Draper being in intensive care for a
year, his body ravaged by Covid, was
that she never showed the slightest
self-pity. Instead she was a stoical
tower of strength. In a crisis peopleshow who they really are and
Garraway seems, well, lovely. It is for
all these reasons that she was an ideal
person to take us on a summer walk
through the Cotswolds in Walking
With... Kate Garraway.
This was a gorgeous programme,
visually, aurally, philosophically, and
benefited from being unscripted. It was
the first time she had had a day to
herself, practically alone with her 360-
degree camera, since Draper was
taken ill in March 2020 (he is now
back at home but sleeps 20 hours a
day). In nature, she said, it was easier
to hold on to the “hope of a miracle”.
Talking directly to the viewer she
wished for the forbearance of the ash
and oak trees: they take whatever
comes at them and just endure, still
growing towards the sky, forces of
nature. In a meditative half-hour she
narrated the landscape and said she
felt inner peace.
At the 12th-century church, when
she closed her eyes in prayer, in
different hands it could have looked
corny. But in hers it was extremely
moving because we knew what she
was praying for. She felt the
countryside “wrapping its arms around
me”. This was balm for the soul, for the
viewer and, hopefully, for Garraway.
Lord knows she’s earned it.
Did you stick with The Tower? Its
finale had some surprises up its sleeve
so, mercifully, we were spared theleaden “saw it coming a mile off”
predictability you get with most cop
shows. It tried, with some success, to
show that life isn’t always black and
white and that human beings can do
bad things, but it doesn’t necessarily
make them all bad.
PC Hadley Matthews had made
racist taunts to asylum seeker Farah,
calling her “Little Miss Jihadi” and her
father “Mohammed bin Laden”, for
which he would have been sacked. But
his conflicted young, black colleague
PC Lizzie Adama (in a strong
performance by Tahirah Sharif) told
DS Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan),
who believed he had pushed Farah off
the tower to save his job, “you don’t
know Hadley at all”. He and Farah had
fallen to their deaths, she said, because
he was trying to save her, not kill her.
Earlier DI Shaw had protested that
Hadley wasn’t racist, but just talking
“like the street” as a joke. Lizzie said
this “joke” had ended in tragedy
because Farah assumed the police
might shoot her father “like Bin
Laden”. At this point it got rather
sermony (it’s so much better when
dramas show not tell), but fair play to
it for showing life in all its complexity.
By the end our protagonist DS
Collins was looking like a pedant
who couldn’t see the bigger picture,
even though she was only applying
the law. A more intriguing ending than
I expected.Holding on to the ‘hope of a miracle’ in nature
TIM SMITH/ATYPICAL MEDIA/BBCCarol
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