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Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies. Music
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A selection of music and features
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Debussy (1862-1918)
When in 1902 Debussy met the then-married
Emma Bardac, it set off events that would
lead to public scandal and tragedy. Debussy
(La mer. III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer;
Estampes: No. 1. Pagodes; Le diable dans le
beffroi, completed and orchestrated by
Robert Orledge — excerpt; Allez, il faut nous
preparer; Un...deux...trois... — chorus; Les
diable! C’est le Diable!; Le Diable mime;
Masques; Fantaisie for piano and
orchestra. I: Andante ma non troppo; Pelleas
et Melisande Act 5 — excerpt; Ou est-tu
Mélisande — to the finale; and La mer
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer)1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
In the last of this week’s series of chamber
music by Rachmaninov and Friends, recorded
at LSO St Luke’s in London, Hannah French
presents the pianist Boris Giltburg.
Prokofiev (Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor,
Op.14); and Rachmaninov (Piano Sonata No.1
in D minor). Recorded at LSO St Luke’s in
London on 11th February 2022
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Presented by Tom McKinney. Beethoven
(Coriolan Overture); Francesco Geminiani
(Concerto grosso No. 12 in D minor —
after Corelli’s op. 5 ”La Follia”); Lutoslawski
(Concerto for Orchestra ); Nielsen (Symphony
No. 6 FS.116 — Sinfonia semplice);
Schumann (6 Songs Op.13 — No.1; and Ich
stand in dunklen Traumen); Webern (Six
Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, op. 6); Handel
(Sinfonia, from “Amadigi di Gaula, HWV
A11”; and Lascia ch’io pianga, from “Rinaldo,
HWV 7” — encore); Ravel (Ma Mere l’oye);
and Dvorák (Andante moderato, from Piano
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4.30 The Listening Service
Exploring music inspired by space (r)
5.00 In Tune
The 17-year-old Israeli pianist Yoav
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7.15 In Tune Mixtape
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and Ravi Shankar’s fusion, and a Sentimental
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7.45 Radio 3 in Concert
The pianist Ronald Brautigam joins the
Ulster Orchestra and the conductor Jac van
Steen in a concert. Sally Beamish (Piano
Concerto No. 1 “Hill Stanzas”); Mozart:
(Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat, K. 595);
and Sibelius (Symphony no. 3 in C, Op. 52)
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Ian McMillan is joined by guests Nicci
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best-selling thrillers under the
pseudonym Nicci French. Plus, the
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10.45 The Essay: Top of the Bill
Susan Calman discusses how she was
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lifelong comedy hero, Victoria Wood (r)
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immorality. There will be bawdy blues from
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feral folk from Geordie troubadour Richard
Dawson inspired by an unruly school trip to
Featherstone castle in Northumberland
1.00am Piano Flow with Tokio Myers
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Who Shaped the Past
The author Richard Cohen considers Monsieur
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12.04 Sea Change
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12.18 You and Yours
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Brighton. See Radio Choice (10/20)
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3.45 After Wonderland
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on recent events in his home nation (3/4)7.15 Add to Playlist
Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye create
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Debate from Coleg Cymoedd in Tonypandy
8.50 A Point of View
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Omnibus. Neil MacGregor tours
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Debra CraineThe Museums That
Make Us
Radio 4, 1.45pmThis regional take on Neil
MacGregor’s A History of
the World in 100 Objects
concludes the present run
of ten episodes (before we
resume next month) on the
south coast. MacGregor,
above, the former director
of the British Museum,
marvels at the “extravagant,
exotic, erotic oriental
pleasure palace” of the
Brighton Pavilion.
Choosing one object that
best illustrates the venue’s
civic purpose and the way it
relates to its local audience
is Hedley Swain, the chief
executive of the Pavilion’s
trust. MacGregor’s eye for
detail and clear evocation
of what he is seeing
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aybe I have been doing
this job for too long.
I have watched so many
celebrity travelogues
(so have you; so has
everyone — you’d have to be dead to
avoid the damn things) that I would
have staked the housekeeping on the
fact that when Joanna Lumley visited
the Moulin Rouge in Joanna Lumley’s
Great Cities of the World it would
take about ten seconds for her to don
the frilled skirts and do the can-can.But she didn’t even take her coat off,
so I stand corrected.
Then again, Lumley is always a class
act — if here a little overenthusiastic
at times — and this was a stylish
though surface tour of Paris, ranging
from how to get the attention of a
Parisian waiter (be rude) to the
restoration of Notre-Dame, to
whether to take a “cinq à sept” (an
extramarital lover, oh là là).
The married woman whom Lumley
interviewed who had done just that
used the metaphor of the patisserie to
explain her lust: she had only ever had
a chocolate éclair and wanted to taste
an apple and pear tart. Fair enough,
but what a missed opportunity to say
she fancied a cream horn.
Lumley, who fondly reminisced
about when she was a model in Paris
in the 1960s (and so, I’m sure, did a
few older male viewers), explained
that she had been to the cake shop
before she got married so was satiated,
thanks. Which was a relief to her
husband, I’m sure. Anyway, it was a
jolly romp around gay Paree, and
Lumley is always an elegant and
engaging host.
Phoenix Rising was a powerful,
troubling documentary about the rock
star Marilyn Manson’s alleged
emotional, physical and sexual abuse
of the actress Evan Rachel Wood, who
was a highly persuasive witness for the
prosecution. Manson is said to havegroomed Wood when she was a
teenager and he was 37, persuading
her to carve an “M” near her vagina,
in what is known as “branding”.
Wood alleged that in the creepy
video for his song Heart-Shaped
Glasses, in which she appeared, she
had agreed to a simulated sex scene,
but once the cameras were rolling he
penetrated her. “I was essentially
raped on camera,” she said, marking it
as the first time he did so. She was 19.
I am still not sure why, with such
strong material and a person evidently
traumatised, the documentary-makers
felt the need to overegg the pudding
with pointless Alice in Wonderland
animations, spelling out the alleged
abuse with chapter headings such as
“Grooming” and “Love-bombing”.
I mean, I know why. Manson had
first approached her to appear in
Phantasmagoria, his intended film
about Lewis Carroll’s inner mind, but
as a televisual device it was reductive
and added nothing.
Wood said he also abused her by
means of starvation and isolating her
from her family. I must say his love of
Nazi insignia and the fact he once
wrote “Kill all the Jews” on their wall
seemed to be a pretty big early red flag
that this guy wasn’t very nice. But,
sincerely, well done to her for speaking
out, having the courage to name
Manson (who denies the allegations)
and doing so with eloquence.Oh là là! Lumley has a jolly romp around Paris
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