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Ken Bruce. Radio 2’s Piano Room Month
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Music from the blues scene 10.00 Trevor
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6.30am Breakfast
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9.00 Essential Classics
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including Essential Performers, which this
week focuses on the cellist Alban Gerhardt
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Respighi (1879-1936)
Donald Macleod examines the life and music
of Otto Respighi, beginning by looking at the
composer’s deep connection with his home
city of Bologna, which had a lasting influence
upon him even after he had moved to Rome.
Respighi (Adagio con variazioni, P 133; Violin
Sonata in B minor, P 110 — Moderato;
Burlesca per Orchestra, P 59; Notte,
P 55a; Nebbie, P 64; and Aretusa, P 95)1.00pm Live Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Hannah French presents a recital from
London’s Wigmore Hall, with the horn player
Ben Goldscheider and the pianist Richard
Uttley. Dukas (Villanelle); Glazunov (Rêverie
Op 24); Bozza (En forêt Op 40); Mark
Simpson (Nachtstück); Rachmaninov
(Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19:
Andante — arr. by Ben Goldscheider);
and Jane Vignery (Horn Sonata Op 7)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Fiona Talkington introduces recent concert
performances from around Europe, featuring
the Prague Symphony Orchestra with the
soloist Roman Patocka. Plus, y Catalan
ensemble Vespres d’Arnadi and Israeli
mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital. Roussel
(Fanfare pour un sacre paien); Liszt
(Hungarian Rhapsody No 14 in F minor, S
244/14); Durante (Concerto No2 in G minor);
Vaughan Williams (The Cloud Capp’d Towers);
Frank Bridge (The Bee); Tchaikovsky (Romeo
& Juliet); Dvorak (Violin Concerto in A minor,
Op 53); Omer Klein (España); and Haydn
(Mass in honorem BVM in E flat, Hob.XXII:4)
4.30 New Generation Artists
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Newby’s performance of Robert Schumann’s
great song cycle Dichterliebe, recorded at the
BBC’s Maida Vale studios last summer
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The choreographer Wayne McGregor talks to
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China and from Mussorgsky and John Adams,
alongside moments of musical tranquillity
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Fiona Talkington presents Michael Francis
conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony
Orchestra, recorded at Berlin’s Konzerthaus
in October 2021. Ravel (Ma mere l’oye —
Suite); Szymanowski (6 Songs of the
Fairytale Princess; String Quartet No1 in C,
Op 37); and Holst (The Planets Suite)
9.30 Northern Drift
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instrumentalist Robin Richards
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Rana, and speaks to the author Gillian
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10.45 The Essay:
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Armando Iannucci examines the connection
between the structures of music and comedy
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The story of the Sassoons, one of the great
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9.45 Book of the Week:
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2.15 Drama: Trip the Light Fantastic
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3.30 The Food Programme
Plant hunters looking for the world’s
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without alienating voters (4/9)
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The story of the Sassoons (7/12) (r)
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Radio 4, 4.30pmThe American broadcaster
and social psychologist
Aleks Krotoski, above,
has a rather interesting
question: where did all
those groups and
individuals driven off social
media platforms after the
January 6, 2021 riots go, and
what have they been doing
in the year since? She
discovers that many flocked
to encrypted messaging
services such as Telegram
or self-proclaimed
“pro-freedom of speech”
platforms including Gettr
and Gab. Yet she wonders
whether they have been
further radicalised in
these spaces, which some
believe have become
recruiting grounds for more
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsW
e didn’t learn much
about the violence in
the lives of US rappers
in Louis Theroux’s
Forbidden America
but, lordy, we did learn this: Theroux
is excruciatingly bad at rapping. If the
documentary gig dries up, well, this
won’t be chapter two. When he took
the mic it was like a middle-aged dad
in M&S Blue Harbour slacks trying to
bond with his son’s friends by talking
about “spliffs” and “hot chicks”.“I am here with BrokeBaby/ We
are rapping and it is so crazy/ We
are sitting around talking/ We are
rocking and rocking and rocking,”
he “freestyled”, while a nation of
viewers, I’m quite sure, clawed at their
faces in purest pain. I know he was
sending himself up, but it was even
more mortifying than when Theroux
was stripped to the waist, blindfolded
and fed strawberries by cooing women
in his 2018 documentary about
polyamory. It was also significantly
less interesting.
I’m sure the premise sounded
good in theory — Theroux talking
to America’s young rappers about the
drugs and guns that drive their music
— but in practice it was meandering
and underwhelming. Sorry, Louis, but
it was one of your weaker offerings.
When Theroux tried to pin down
these talented but chaotic and
mumbling young artists to answer a
question, it was like trying to nail jelly
to a wall. They were just not the types
to oblige in a traditional interview
format. When he tried to ask one
young man I’d never heard of about
some complicated but vague “beef”
with another rapper I’d never heard of,
I wanted to shout: “But who cares?”
I did admire Theroux for keeping a
sense of understated deadpan humour,
and indeed a straight face, when
someone tried to pretend their lyrics
were about crayons. By the end I feltnone the wiser. Theroux’s rap, on
reflection, was the highlight.
Et tu, Call the Midwife? Soap
viewers are pig sick of disaster
storylines (this one is, anyway), but
you have succumbed too. And you
didn’t even use it to kill off a couple
of main characters, which I always
thought was the point. The victims
were just a few randoms instead.
Call the Midwife, however, always
stays classy, and this was no exception.
The train crash was not a tedious
“spectacular” like, say, Coronation
Street’s special effects tram crash,
not least because the train carriage
where Dr Turner and Sister Julienne
were trapped looked as if it had been
knocked up from balsa wood.
Expense had been spared.
But it made for moments of
profundity, this series’ strong suit,
as Sister Julienne, trapped in the
wreckage, reflected on her life spent
“waiting” and offered her wimple to
stem the blood of a dying woman.
That dying woman was later buried
with a stillborn baby, highlighting the
touching way that stillborn children
were sometimes given a proper burial
by being placed in the coffins of
strangers. But it also revealed the
casually brutal way in which mothers
who had stillbirths were treated. And
Sister Julienne hadn’t had a heart
attack after all. Like they would ever
kill off Jenny Agutter.Rapping Louis? Don’t give up the day job
OLLY COURTNEYCarol
Midgley
TV review
Call the Midwife
BBC1
{{{((Louis Theroux’s
Forbidden America
BBC2
{{(((This was a weak episode for Theroux, pictured with BrokeBaby