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and musical gems rarely heard on Radio 2
7.30 Jo Whiley. A mix of new music and
classic tracks, with guests dropping in to the
studio to chat 9.00 The Country Show with
Bob Harris. Music from across the
generations 10.00 DJ Spoony’s Magnificent- DJ Spoony spins tunes and essential
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DJ Spooney sits in for Trevor Nelson with
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6.30am Breakfast
Petroc Trelawny presents the classical
breakfast show, featuring listener requests
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:
Brahms (1833-1897)
Joachim (Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor “in
the Hungarian Style” — 3rd mvt); and
Brahms (Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor;
Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1; Violin
Concerto D, Op 77 — 3rd mvt; and Violin
Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108) (r)1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Hannah French continues this week’s series
of Lunchtime Concerts, Saint-Saëns’s Circle,
recorded at LSO St Luke’s in London. Today,
the Gould Piano Trio perform Fauré’s Piano
Trio in D minor, from his late works, and
Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Trio in E minor, a
grand work penned during the composer’s
visit to Algeria in 1892. Fauré (Piano
Trio in D minor; and Saint-Saëns (Piano
Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 92)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Grazyna Bacewicz (Overture); Lutoslawski
(Symphony No.1); Nino Rota (La Strada);
Alessandro Marcello (Concerto for oboe,
strings and continuo in D minor); Joanne
Metcalf (Gold and Thorns, Fire and Ice);
Beethoven (Symphony No.1 in C, Op.21);
Bach (Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G,
BWV.1049); Stravinsky (Concerto for Piano &
Winds); Dvorák (Othello, Op.93); Boris
Blacher (Blues, Espagnola and Rumba
Philharmonica); and Richard Strauss
(Serenade in E flat for 13 Winds, Op.7)
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7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Marin Alsop conducts the BBC SSO in music
by James MacMillan and Antonin Dvorák,
plus flautist Adam Walker joins them for an
American concerto. Recorded at City Halls,
Glasgow on April 21, 2022. Presented by
Kate Molleson. James MacMillan (The
Confession of Isobel Gowdie); Rouse (Flute
Concerto); and Dvorák (Symphony No. 7)
10.00 Free Thinking
The People’s History Museum researcher
Dr Shirin Hirsch, folk expert Tim Healey
and writer Zoe Gilbert join Matthew
Sweet to explore rituals and beliefs
associated with May Day
10.45 The Essay: New Generation
Thinkers 2021
Lauren Working considers the symbolism
of neckwear in colonial America
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8.31 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament
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By the Secret Barrister (4/5)
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11.00 Crossing Continents
Documentary looking at how poetry and
music has triggered warfare killing hundreds
in Lesotho, southern Africa (4/7)
11.30 What’s Left of Kerouac?
The American novelist and poet Jack
Kerouac. See Radio Choice
12.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
12.04 You and Yours
12.30 Sliced Bread
The scientific evidence behind a product’s
bold claims (4/20)
1.00 The World at One
1.45 The Bear Next Door
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2.15 Drama: McLevy in the New World
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mayor decides McLevy is the chief suspect.
Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond star (2/2)
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3.27 Radio 4 Appeal
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Ben DowellWhat’s Left of
Kerouac?
Radio 4, 11.30amThe writer Jack Kerouac,
above, was known to have a
clear, almost photographic
memory, even claiming to
remember the day on which
he was born: March 12,
1922, in the late afternoon
in Lowell, Massachusetts.
This programme revisits his
home town, which, like
his reputation, has changed
a lot since his birthday.
Once the darling of the
countercultural beat
movement after the
publication of his 1957 book
On the Road, he became a
disillusioned drunk. As
writers including Geoff
Dyer and AM Homes and
the citizens of Lowell
wonder, what remains of
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earching for Michael
Jackson’s Zoo with Ross Kemp
was an unwieldy title for an
excellent documentary. I
presumed this would be Kemp
scooting round America frowning
manfully as people told him that
Jackson’s collection of wild animals,
which he treated like disposable toys
for his own amusement, were long
dead. It instead evolved into a gripping
exposé of Jackson’s hypocrisy and
animal cruelty. I was wrong too: twoelephants were still alive, no thanks to
Jackson, although some animals seem
to have vanished completely.
We have all heard the sickening
accounts of people who claim to have
been sexually abused as children by
Jackson at his home Neverland. But
generally people seem to think that
the pop star’s animal-loving
credentials are sound. Think again.
This is a man who, we were told,
shipped baby elephants from South
Africa to America and bought from a
convicted animal torturer. Who
admitted to a horrified Jane Goodall
that he hit his so-called best friend
Bubbles the chimp. Who boasted that
when he took in an animal it was “for
life”, but got rid of an elephant when it
became too expensive to keep and
effectively abandoned 50 different
species, from tigers to giraffes to
alligators, without even returning to
say goodbye to them.
He auctioned them off like
furniture, didn’t pay his vet bills —
leaving no money for their care — but
meanwhile went on massive shopping
trips for tat. And all while he was
virtue-signalling to the world how we
should save the planet with his
preposterously pretentious Earth Song.
Kemp did a very good thing by
exposing how cruel the fad for keeping
exotic pets in cages in domestic homes
is (a global trade worth $300 billion a
year) and showing how Jacksonhelped to fuel it: the world’s biggest
influencer making it fashionable to
have a pet chimp in a pair of
dungarees (obviously Bubbles was
discarded like all the others). Jackson
made brilliant music, but here was yet
more evidence that he was a serial
abuser of the powerless. All credit for
holding it to the light.
Is it just me or is The Great British
Sewing Bee in danger of losing some
of its unaffected charm by including
more of the contestants’ backstories,
so it becomes like any other dreary
reality competition show? It has lost
Joe Lycett as a presenter who, with his
“puckered cleavage” double entendres,
was one of the highlights. Don’t be like
all the others, Sewing Bee. Stay low-key
and unsentimental as you obsess over
a slightly loose hem.
Sara Pascoe is an amiable
replacement for Lycett and eked out
of Marni, the vet, that cockapoos are
drama-queen nightmares when it
comes to being examined. “I spend
most of my life looking at dogs’
bottoms,” she said, while running up a
skirt. I can think of worse jobs.
But at least in one respect it’s not
taking itself too seriously. Usually
when we are given previews of shows
such as this, they chop the last five
minutes off so we can’t see who was
kicked out. They didn’t here, so I could
see it was Mitch. Unfortunately he was
its most entertaining contestant.Exposing Michael Jackson’s animal cruelty
SIPA/SHUTTERSTOCKCarol
Midgley
TV review
The Great British Sewing Bee
BBC1
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