radio 12-18 Aug 2017 guide 76
Radio 1
97.6-99.8 MHz
6.0 Yasser 10.0 The Matt
Edmondson Show 1.0 Alice
Levine 4.0 Dance Anthems
with Danny Howard 7.0 DJ
Target 10.0 The Rap Show
with Charlie Sloth 1.0 Seani
B 4.0 Diplo and FriendsRadio 2
88-91 MHz
6.0 Sounds of the 60s 8.0
Saturday Breakfast with
Dermot 10.0 Alan and
Mel’s Summer Escape 1.0
Pick of the Pops 3.0 Kate
Thornton 6.0 Liza Tarbuck
8.0 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm
Nation 10.0 Craig Charles
12.0 Ana Matronic’s Disco
Devotion 2.0 Showtunes
Playlist 3.0 Playlist: Love
Songs 4.0 Playlist: Easy 5.0
Katie PuckrikRadio 3
90.2-92.4 MHz
7.0 Breakfast 9.0 News 9.03
Summer Record Review
12.15 New Generation
Artists 1.0 News 1.02
Saturday Classics. With
Evelyn Glennie. 3.0 BBC
Proms 2017. The BBC
Singers and Nash Ensemble
in the premiere of Judith
Weir’s In the Land of Uz.
5.0 Jazz Record Requests
6.0 Jazz Line-Up 7.30
BBC Proms 2017. Thomas
Dausgaard conducts the BBC
SSO in unfinished works by
Schubert and Mahler, live
from London’s Royal Albert
Hall. 10.0 Hear and Now
12.0 Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz
1.0 Through the NightRadio 4
92.4-94.6 MHz; 198kHz
6.0 News 6.07 Open
Country (R) 6.30 Farming
Today This Week 6.57
Weather 7.0 Today 9.0
Saturday Live 10.30 The
Cultural Front: Jazz Kings
Go to War (1/3) 11.0 The
Forum: Indian Princely
States 11.30 From Our
Own Correspondent 12.0
News 12.01 (LW) ShippingSalman Saturday 12
Rushdie’s
Midnight’s
Children
Monday,
11.45pm,
Radio 4Another literary offering comes
in the form of Love Henry James:
The Portrait of a Gentleman
(Saturday, 2.30pm, Radio 4),
Peter Ansorge’s dramatic
explanation of what was going
through the mind of the master
when he was writing The Portrait
of a Lady in 1880. James wrote
the instalments of the novel –
which was being published in
magazines long before he had
decided how it was going to
turn out – in the city of Venice.
He found that the natural
wonders of the place, including
a handsome young gondolier,
kept him from getting on with
his work as he would like.
Here Guy Paul plays the writer,
while Katherine Kingsley is the
American novelist trying to get
her hooks in him.
The people who do The Daily,
the excellent news podcast from
the New York Times, are slowly
realising that the current state
of play in Washington means
that they have a situation and
a cast of characters in their
crosshairs who are more extreme
and more interesting than the
highly coached stars of pop
music, movies and sport. And so
they’re following the goings-on
in the city with a new podcast
called The New Washington.
Introducing the new stream, the
paper’s Carl Hulse observes that
politicians are far more likely
to submit themselves to a long
conversation than to the cut
and thrust of a press conference
or TV interview. With the new
extended interview format, the
politico hope s they will get their
point across and the journalist
hopes they’ll get something
more illuminating than the usual
dead bat. Watch this stream t is 30 years this month
since Eric B & Rakim
released their album
Paid in Full, which inaugurated
the golden age of hip-hop. If you
need reminding how remote that
era is from today, subtracting
the same 30 years from 1987
would take you to a world yet
to experience Elvis Presley’s
Jailhouse Rock. Hip Hop Hooray
(Saturday, from 7am, 6 Music) is
the faintly Crackerjack title given
to 12 hours of programming
celebrat ing this anniversary and
its musical heritage, fronted by
Mary Anne Hobbs, Huey Morgan,
Liz Kershaw, Gilles Peterson,
Craig Charles and Nemone.
A mere 20 years before Paid in
Full, the Marine Offences Act of
1967 was bringing to an end the
short and colourful career of the
UK radio pirates and ushering in
Radio 1 and 2. In Johnnie Walker
Meets the Pirates (Monday,
10pm, Radio 2), the man who
kept broadcasting in the
early days of illegality talks to
Emperor Rosko, Tom Edwards,
Tony Blackburn, Pete Brady and
others about their brief life on
the ocean waves.
Marking the 70th anniversary
of the partition of India, there is
a new dramatisation of Salman
Rushdie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s
Children (Monday, 11.45pm;
Tuesday, from 9am, Radio 4),
whose hero Saleem Sinai is born
on the stroke of the clock that
announced the birth of this
momentous new arrangement.
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David Hepworth on
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