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12.00 Composer of the Week:
Edward Gregson (b 1945) and
Alan Bush (1900-1995)
The composer Edward Gregson talks to
Donald Macleod about a new role with new
responsibilities. Gregson (Stepping Out;
Violin Concerto — 2nd mvt; Shadow of
Paradise; Make a Joyful Noise; and
Clarinet Concerto — Part 1)
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The pianist Llyr Williams’ programme centres
around a sequence of studies from Chopin’s
Op 25 and Op 10. Chopin (Prelude in C sharp
minor, op 45; Etudes from Op 25 & Op 10; No
12 C minor, Op 10 ”Revolutionary”; No 9 in F
minor, Op 10; No 10 in A flat major, Op 10;
No 11 in E flat major, Op 10 ”Arpeggio”; No 3
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Op 25 ”Aeolian harp”; No 5 in E minor, Op 25;
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minor Op 10 ”Lament”; No 12 in C minor,
Op 25; and Nocturne Op 48 No 1)2.00 Afternoon Concert
Jonathan Nott and the Swiss Romande
Orchestra perform. Presented by Penny Gore.
Ravel (Alborada del gracioso); Lotti
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Pascal Dusapin (Waves, duo for organ
and orchestra — Swiss premiere); and
Schumann (Cello Concerto in A minor)
4.00 Choral Evensong
Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey
with the choir of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge. Preces: Matthew Martin. First
Reading: 2 Chronicles 5 vv.1-14. Psalm 84
(Grayston Ives). Second Reading: John 17
vv.20-26. Office Hymn: The church of God a
kingdom is (Wingham). Canticles: Collegium
Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton). Great
Litany (John Harper). Lord’s Prayer
(Sheppard). Anthem: A New Song (James
Macmillan). Voluntary: Seven Sketches
(Sortie) (Whitlock). Matthew Martin
(Precentor), Kyoko Canaway, Tammas
Slater, and Martin Baker (Organists)
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The guitarist Milos Karadaglic is the special
guest, plus the baritone Benjamin Appl and
the pianist James Baillieu perform
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7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Peter Phillips returns to collaborate with the
BBC Singers in a programme of settings of
the biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah.
Presented by Martin Handley, recorded at
BBC Maida Vale Studios on 13th January- Thomas Tallis (Lamentations I; and
Lamentations II); Dominique Phinot
(Lamentations); Nico Muhly (Recordare,
domine); Antoine Brumel (Lamentations);
Robert Whyte (Lamentations for five voices);
and Matthew Martin (Lamentations)
10.00 Free Thinking
Rana Mitter and guests explore new ways
of looking at Chinese culture and history,
and ask how the writings of the Chinese
diaspora shed light on modern China
10.45 The Essay: Unearthing
Britannia’s Tribes
The archaeologist David Miles unravels
the complex story of the Atrebates
of South West England
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Stavanger Symphony Orchestra performs (r)
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12.18 You and Yours
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The debt issue and Nazanin finally collide
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Whether a staffing crisis is the biggest
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Peggy finds herself conflicted
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11.15 The John Moloney Show
The stand-up shares his musings on
modern life. Last in the series
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The stress of Neville’s search
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ou’re inclined to feel some
sympathy for our legal
profession when it comes
to the centuries of terrible
lawyer jokes. Take this one:
“What’s the difference between a leech
and a lawyer? A leech falls off when
you’re dead.” Hilarious. After all, when
something goes amiss you’re very
glad to have a lawyer to help (until
they send you the bill). Professional
integrity may be paramount to the
law, but what was it Breaking Bad’s
Saul Goodman said? “Sometimes
you don’t need a criminal lawyer,
you need a criminal lawyer.” Enter
Giovanni Di Stefano.Di Stefano is serving a 22-year
prison sentence for fraud after a
rollercoaster legal ride with a client list
taking in Saddam Hussein, Dr Harold
Shipman and Osama bin Laden (well,
someone had to do it). “I don’t defend
Snow White,” this British-Italian legal
whizz once declared, in his whiny
Cockney accent, as he made millions.
Except, as it turns out, he had no
“PhD in law from Cambridge”; he
was as kosher as Del Boy QC.
When he was riding high, Di
Stefano was indeed like an
international Saul Goodman, just less
loveable; given the recent trend for
series about con artists, the arrival of
The Devil’s Advocate: The Mostly
True Story of Giovanni Di Stefano
is no surprise. This was a guy with
such a love of the limelight that in his
schooldays he was already claiming to
have appeared on Opportunity Knocks
and dated Suzi Quatro (unlikely).
In the first episode we heard how
he launched himself with a stunning
legal success defending the timeshare
fraudster John “Goldfinger” Palmer.
His ego ballooned and his client list
started to take in such rogues as
Ronnie Biggs and the property tycoon
Nicholas van Hoogstraten. Except
that Van Hoogstraten said here that
“Giovanni never represented me at
any time”. Indeed, how involved was
Di Stefano with the cases of Shipman
and Saddam? By the time Di Stefanowas being investigated for fraud, his
lies included a claim that his father
was murdered by MI6 with an ice pick.
Unlike some recent conman series,
The Devil’s Advocate looks deep into
Di Stefano’s backstory over three
riveting parts, because clearly we do
enjoy watching a good legal shyster.
In the third we hear from his old RE
teacher, who wondered if his lessons
in the human capacity for belief may
have been a formative influence:
“He would have realised there are no
limits to people’s credulity.”
But perhaps the most curious view
comes from the legal profession itself.
He was, we are told, a “bloody good
lawyer”, and Jerome Lynch QC
admits his admiration for this amoral
maverick (at least, this before knowing
his fraud): “The legal profession has
been a very strait-laced profession, and
if there’s some bucking of the system
by those ready to do it then why not?”
Lynch, one hastily adds, says it’s
right that Di Stefano should be in jail,
if not with the sentence he got (“22
years! Murderers don’t get that!”). By
contrast the copper DC Jerry Walters,
who put Di Stefano away, has no such
ambiguity about the sentence, nor
does the victim of a traffic crash who
saw his £150,000 compensation swiped
by Di Stefano. Which brings to mind
another old lawyer joke — when the
lawyer is asked of his former client, “Is
he wealthy?” Answer: “He used to be.”The rollercoaster ride of a con artist in court
OLI SCARFF/GETTY IMAGESJames
Jackson
TV review
The Devil’s Advocate
Sky Documentaries/Now
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