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radio 14-20 Oct 2017 guide 76

Radio 1

97.6-99.8 MHz

6.0 Dev 10.0 Matt

Edmondson 1.0 Alice Levine

4.0 Dance Anthems with

Danny Howard 7.0 MistaJam

10.0 The Rap Show with

Charlie Sloth 1.0 DJ Target

4.0 Diplo and Friends

Radio 2

88-91 MHz

6.0 Sounds of the 60s 8.0

Saturday Breakfast with

Dermot 10.0 Graham

Norton 1.0 Pick of the

Pops 3.0 Zoe Ball 6.0 Liza

Tarbuck 8.0 Trevor Nelson’s

Rhythm Nation 10.0 The

Craig Charles House Party

12.0 Ana Matronic’s Disco

Devotion 2.0 Showtunes

Playlist 3.0 Playlist: Love

Songs 4.0 Playlist: Easy

5.0 Huey on Sunday

Radio 3

90.2-92.4 MHz

7.0 Breakfast. Live from

London’s Wellcome

Collection. 9.0 News 9.03

Record Review: Why Music?

The Key to Memory. 11.0

Memory Varied. Pianist Igor

Levit performs Beethoven’s

Diabelli Variations. 12.15

Music Matters: The Key to

Memory. From London’s

Wellcome Collection.

1.0 News 1.02 Saturday

Classics. Lesley Garrett on

music and memory. 3.0

Sound of Cinema. Memory

in film music. 4.0 Jazz

Record Requests. Memory-

themed requests. 5.0 Jazz

Line-Up. Music of memory.

6.30 Beyond Memory:

Music in the Moment.

Music and dementia. 8.0 In

Search of Proust’s Music. A

concert from the Wellcome

Collection. 10.0 Hear and

Now. Experimental music

on memory. 12.0 Geoffrey

Smith’s Jazz 1.0 Slow Radio:

Music, Life and Dementia

Radio 4

92.4-94.6 MHz; 198kHz

6.0 News and Papers 6.07

Ramblings: Listeners’ Walks.

Saturday 14

Late Junction:

Robert Wyatt

Tuesday,

11pm, Radio 3

actor David Threlfall, writer

Rachel Cooke and poet and critic

Garth Greenwell. In Late Junction

(Tuesday, 11pm, Radio 3) Verity

Sharp travels to Lincolnshire

to talk to Robert Wyatt about

his musical preferences, which

include early jazz, Ivor Cutler

and Peter Pears but do not

stretch to what he calls the

“wobbly singers” of opera.

Why Music? The Key to

Memory (Sunday, 10pm, Radio 3

and 6 Music) is a live show,

simulcast across two networks.

It’s presented by Tom Service

and Cerys Matthews and comes

from the Wellcome Collection

as part of a weekend of events

exploring the implications of

music’s unique capacity to be

remembered. A live audience

and the listeners at home are

invited to see if they can pass the

“plink” test, where recognising

a song from its first half-second

can apparently show your age.

If, like me, you’ve never

watched Game of Thrones, the

podcast Binge Mode: Game of

Thrones ought to be unlistenable.

It isn’t, thanks to the energy of

the two expert presenters Mallory

Rubin and Jason Concepcion,

who have the wit to laugh at their

own deep-dive devotion and are

helped out by some smart editing.

Now that she’s being seriously

talked up as a presidential

candidate, Making Oprah is an

important listen, even though

the show stopped broadcasting

in 2011. The producers modestly

bill this as “the inside story of a

TV revolution”. Unsurprisingly,

there are episodes devoted to

Oprah’s interest in politics and

spirituality. Because this is about

TV the episode devoted to her

hair is every bit as instructive 

y the time we got to
the pudding the losses
amounted to £900,000.”
That’s art critic Martin Gayford
laconically recollecting a lunch
with the painter Lucian Freud,
who was having a bet at the
same time. Freud liked a wager.
He reckoned he could carry
£16,000 cash about his person
without it becoming obvious.
The first of three programmes
called The Gamble (Wednesday,
9am, Radio 4) investigates the
connection between risk and the
creative arts. In Freud’s case, his
assistant remembers: “He would
gamble until he had nothing left
and that somehow freed him up
to then start painting again.”
Radio 3’s Opera Season
continues with an Afternoon
Concert devoted to Nabucco
(Thursday, 2pm, Radio 3)
recorded at Covent Garden in

2003. Plácido Domingo plays
      the King of the Babylonians,
      Liudmyla Monastyrska is
      Abigaille. Because this was taped
      during a performance you can
      hear the sandals of each and
      every Hebrew slave as they seem
      to shuffle through the room.
      Meanwhile in The Essay:
      Stories That Sing (Weekdays,
      10.45pm, Radio 3) five prominent
      creatives talk about how they
      came to grips with the one
      musical genre that many people
      consider a step too far. Julian
      Barnes goes first on Monday
      night. He’s followed by academic
      and novelist Patricia Duncker,

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David Hepworth on

creative gambling and

memory in music

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