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Luke Jones 1.00pm Ruth Davidson. Covering
the big political stories of the week, and
looking ahead to the weekend, especially in
sport and entertainment, Friday’s headlines
and discussions 4.00 Cathy Newman at
Drive. Friday’s headlines and discussions
7.00 Michael Portillo. Cultured conversation
and political interview 10.00 Kait Borsay.
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Red Box. Matt Chorley’s politics podcast
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Golden Hour. With tracks by artists including
Ricky Martin, Madonna and the Lighthouse
Family 8.00 Alternative Sounds of the 90s
with Dermot O’Leary. To kick off his new
series, Dermot takes listeners through 26
songs that define the decade for him 10.00
Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton 12.00
Romesh Ranganathan: For the Love of
Hip-Hop 1.00am The DJ Spoony House Party
(r) 2.30 The DJ Spoony House Party Mixtape
(r) 3.00 Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers
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6.30am Breakfast
Kate Molleson presents, featuring listener
requests and the Friday poem
9.00 Essential Classics
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical
music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing
shoulders with familiar favourites
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004)
Donald Macleod talks with composer Emilie
Bernstein about her father, film composer,
Elmer Bernstein. Bernstein (Far from
Heaven: Autumn in Connecticut; Hit;
Crying; Turning Point; Cathy and Raymond
Dance; Rambling Rose: Let the Crazy
Creature Out; Fever; Safe House; Devil in a
Blue Dress: Main titles; Cape Fear:
Houseboat; The Fight; Destruction; The End;
and The Age of Innocence: Main title)1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The final programme in the series of recitals
from the Belfast Music Society International
Festival of Chamber Music, at the Great Hall
at Queen’s University. Mendelssohn (Piano
Trio no.2 in C minor, Op.66); Charlotte Bray
(That Crazed Smile — 2014); and Liszt
(Reminiscences de Don Juan)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Presented by Ian Skelly. Strauss II
(Overture to Die Fledermaus); Strauss I
(Seufzer-Galopp, Op.9); Beethoven (Piano
Sonata no.2 in A, Op.2’2); Liszt (Venezia
e Napoli, S.159); Isabella Leonarda (Sonata
Duodecima); Strauss II (Loreley-Rhein-
Klänge — saltz Op.154); Richard Strauss
(Burleske for piano and orchestra);
Strauss II (Roses from the South — waltz
Op.388); Richard Strauss (Suite from Der
Rosenkavalier, Op.59); Strauss II
(Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op.214); Beethoven
(Piano Sonata no.1 in F minor, Op.2’1)
4.30 The Listening Service
How performances of a classical piece
can differ from each other (r)
5.00 In Tune
A selection of music, arts news and guests.
Including 5.00, 6.00 News
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
An eclectic non-stop mix of music, featuring
old favourites together with lesser-known
gems, and a few surprises thrown in
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Sakari Oramo, perform live from the Barbican
Centre, London. Korngold (Violin Concerto
in D); and Langgaard (Symphony No. 1
in B minor, BVN 32 ”Klippepastoraler”)
10.00 The Verb
Ian McMillan presents a late-night showcase
of new writing, performance and literature
10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby
explores traces of human history in different
landscapes around the British Isles. In ’Moor’
she explores environmental change on
Exmoor’s peatlands. Here, ecologists
and archaeologists must work together
to restore the upland bogs
11.00 Late Junction
Verity Sharp leads us on a tightrope across
the outer edges of adventurous music. There
is newly reissued music from Gabonese
harpist Papé Nziengui, and traditional
recordings from the Peruvian Amazon
1.00am Composed with Emeli Sandé
The singer explores the music that brings
her strength and inspiration
2.00 Gameplay with Baby Queen
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5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
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8.45 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament
9.00 The Reunion
Kirsty Wark reunites key figures involved in
the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 (1/5) (r)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
9.45 Book of the Week: Hybrid Humans
By Harry Parker (5/5)
10.00 Woman’s Hour
Magazine exploring issues from a female
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11.00 Three Pounds in My Pocket
Migrants from the Indian subcontinent
recall Britain post-9/11 (1/3)
11.30 Whatever Happened to Baby
Jane Austen? Comedy starring Dawn
French and Jennifer Saunders. See Radio
Choice (1/5)
12.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
12.04 Archive on 4: The Ministry of Fun
How we quantify the success of the arts (r)
1.00 The World at One
1.45 A Show of Hands
The power of touch (5/5) (r)
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: Dead Hand
Thriller, by Stuart Drennan (2/5)
2.45 Living with the Gods
Neil MacGregor examines the role and
expression of shared beliefs (1/30)
3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
Experts answer listeners’ queries
3.45 Short Works
Oestrogen City, by Rosemary Jenkinson
4.00 Last Word
The lives of notable people who recently died
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5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
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7.00 Letter from Ukraine
Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov reflects on
recent events in his home nation (6/8)
7.15 Screenshot
The role of trains on the big screen (2/9)
8.00 Any Questions?
Topical discussion
8.50 A Point of View
A reflection on a topical issue9.00 The Museums That Make Us
Omnibus. Neil MacGregor tours more of
Britain’s museums (2/4)
10.00 The World Tonight
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10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise
By Damon Galgut (5/10)
11.00 Great Lives
Brian Cox reflects on the achievements of
director Lindsay Anderson (1/9) (r)
11.30 The Shadow of Algiers
Examining France’s troubled history
with Algeria (5/5) (r)
11.45 Witness (7/14) (r)
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Godfrey make an error during a platoon
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about the ”Kaiseroda” mine 9.00 Podcast
Radio Hour. Scott Bryan, Laura Grimshaw and
Chris Pearson round up new listening for
April 10.00 Comedy Club: Desolation Jests.
JP Doom interviews Viktor Schmelling.
Sketch show starring David Jason 10.30
Mark Watson’s Live Address to the Nation.
The comedian continues his efforts to
improve the world. Last in the series 11.00
State of the Nations. Comedian Elis James
continues his tour with a visit to The Empire
in Belfast 11.30 My Booze Hell by Little
Johnny Cartilage. The washed-up television
star finds himself in the psychiatrist’s chair
11.45 Bird Island. Ben and Graham
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of the best new recordings from 2022. John
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(Vocalise Op 34); Mozart (Violin Concerto
No 3 in G K.216; Debussy (Clair de Lune);
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Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam PittisRadio Choice
Ben DowellWhatever Happened
to Baby Jane Austen?
Radio 4, 11.30am
Dawn French and Jennifer
Saunders, above, star in this
five-part comedy riff on
perhaps their most famous
television pastiche,
Whatever Happened to
Baby Dawn?, which they
shot in 1990. It was written
by the Veep writer David
Quantick, and if you caught
the pilot episode, you will
know it stars French as
Florence Ransom, known
for the Booker prizewinning
Pennant Days. Saunders
plays her sister, the movie
star Selina Mountjoy. The
pair have avoided each
other for decades, but when
Selina returns to Britain to
promote her kiss-and-tell
autobiography, the two are
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsI
sn’t it remarkable that in the
5th century mankind could
create, with the most basic tools,
a sculpture as timeless and
expressive as Spong Man, yet all
these years later, with all our swish
technology, we couldn’t even manage
to knock out an official statue of
Princess Diana that didn’t look like
Richard Madeley? Art That Made Us,
which opened with Spong Man, was
an entertaining — if a little “full on” at
times — documentary that “funkedup” British art from AD400 with the
use of heavy rock music and the
grizzle-bearded Michael Sheen on
stage reciting the medieval Welsh
poem Y Gododdin.
I imagine some Beowulf purists may
not have appreciated Maria Dahvana
Headley’s modern translation in which
she made use of the word “bro” and
“f***”, but I quite liked it. As another
expert said, most people haven’t a clue
what it’s saying and “a German has
more chance of understanding
Beowulf than we do”.
The Rev Richard Coles talked us
through the beautiful Lindisfarne
Gospels, but as another expert said,
monks’ lives weren’t all prayer and
reading. You might, he said, “have
your house set on fire, your treasures
stolen and be carried off a slave; that’s
the downside of being a monk”. Quite
the “downside”.
Anyway there are eight episodes and
all credit to them for not being dry-as-
a-bone art homilies. Antony Gormley
made the point that “the potential for
sculpture to communicate something
to people who haven’t been born yet is
an incredibly powerful thing”. I
suspect what future generations will
think of that Diana statue is that it
looks like something that cost £9.99
from the Range.
Much is spoken about the “fog of
war”, but you don’t normally expect
hostile fire from your own side. BenFogle’s excellent Falklands War: The
Forgotten Battle highlighted the
terrible injustice suffered by NP8901,
a small unit of Royal Marines already
stationed on the islands when the
Argentinians invaded. They held them
off valiantly for a while, despite being
vastly outnumbered, before being
ordered by their commander to lay
down their arms to save their lives.
The Argentinians put them on a
plane back to the UK, where they saw
the headlines “SHAMED” and
“Surrender” alongside photos of them
lying face down in the mud, claiming
they had capitulated without a shot
being fired (6,000 rounds had been
used). I’m ashamed to say I’d forgotten
this story. If I was any of those brave
men so maligned I’d have screamed
about it from the rooftops ever since.
A recent Channel 4 documentary
brilliantly busted some myths about
the conflict (terrible decisions were
made and we nearly lost), but this is
the only one that has tackled this story
and interviewed some of the men who
were essentially called cowards.
“It still hurts,” said one. I bet it does.
How come I had never heard of that
final twist? Namely that the very same
men went straight back to the
Falklands and assisted in its liberation.
It was these very same men who
rehoisted the Union Jack. It’s shameful
that it took 40 years for this story to
be told properly.A valiant attempt at ‘funking up’ British art
JOHANN PERRY/CLEAR STORY/BBCCarol
Midgley
TV review
Falklands War: The
Forgotten Battle
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