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7.30 Jo Whiley. A mix of new music and
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9.00 The Folk Show with Martin Freeman.
The actor shares his favourite folk and
acoustic tracks. See Radio Choice
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Magnificent 7. Seven
of Rhythm Nation’s biggest hits, uplifting
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Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation. The DJ
introduces a mix of R’n’B and soulful tunes
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6.30am Breakfast
Petroc Trelawny presents the classical
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7.30, 8.30 News headlines
9.00 Essential Classics
Georgia Mann presents a selection of music
and features, including the third of Kate
Romano’s five sketches of Vaughan
Williams’s life and music
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Vaughan Williams Today
Donald Macleod explores how after his wife
Adeline’s death, Vaughan Williams threw
himself back into life, and celebrated his
80th birthday. Vaughan Williams (Three
Shakespeare Songs; Romance in D flat for
harmonica & strings; Old Hundredth; Silence
and Music; Symphony 7 “Sinfonia Antartica”
— III. Landscape — Lento; Turtle dove;
Dark-Eyed Sailor; and John Dory)1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Sarah Walker introduces further highlights
from a series of recitals given by Radio 3’s
New Generation Artists at 2018 Cheltenham
Festival. The Calidore Quartet, the trumpeter
Simon Hofele, the pianist Frank Dupree and
the Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili
perform. Janacek (String quartet No 1
Kreutzersonate); Charlier (Deuxieme
Solo de Concours); and Liszt
(Piano Sonata in B minor S 178) (r)
2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly introduces music making inspired
by Spain. Today, Pablo Gonzalez conducts the
RTVE Symphony Orchestra, and Yeol Eum
Son perform. Prokofiev (Love For Three
Oranges, Suite); Anselm Ferrer (Lamentatio
— 2. Sabbato Sancto); Haydn (Quartet in D
Op20/4); Shostakovich (Symphony No 9);
and Ravel (Piano Concerto in G)
4.00 Live Choral Evensong
Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London,
on the Eve of the Ascension. Introit: Alleluias
(June Nixon). Responses: Vicente Chavarría.
Psalms 15, 24 (Greenhow, Barnby). First
Lesson: 2 Samuel 23 vv.1-5. Office Hymn: All
praise to thee, for thou, O King divine
(Engelberg). Canticles: Murrill in E. Second
Lesson: Colossians 2 v.20 - 3 v.4. Anthem:
Let all the world (Leighton). Prayer Anthem:
King of glory, king of peace (Nils Greenhow).
Hymn: Crown him with many crowns
(Diademata). Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue
in C (Bach). James Vivian (Director of
Music), Polina Sosnina (Associate Organist)
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the Sound Voice Project. 5.00, 6.00 News
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
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7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Recorded at
City Halls in Glasgow on 12 May 2022. Bartok
(The Wooden Prince — complete ballet
score); and Nielsen (Symphony No 2
”The Four Temperaments”)
10.00 Free Thinking
John Gallagher, Helen Hackett and Christina
Faraday explore the Tudor mind through art,
portraiture and poetry, and they discuss
Vaughan Williams’s take on the Tudors
10.45 The Essay: Adrian Edmondson
— Signs of Life
Adrian Edmondson reflects on his mental
health and how reading about the ancient
philosophers changed his life
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that explains the numbers and
statistics used in everyday life (1/6)
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The benefits of a cup of coffee (5/10)
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9.45 Book of the Week:
Empire of Pain — The Secret
History of the Sackler Dynasty
By Patrick Radden Keefe (8/10)
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11.00 Sports Star
Joey D’Urso investigates the influence
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11.30 Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Lucy investigates a baby farmer accused
of killing hundreds of infants (5/8)
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12.04 You and Yours
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1.45 Metamorphosis
Erica McAlister examines the Namib desert
beetles, which can drink without water (3/5)
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama:
The Disappearance of Mr Chan
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Chan fails to arrive at Heathrow airport, his
daughter Poppy embarks on a mission to
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7.00 The Archers
Brian is put on the back foot, and
Alistair has concerns about a friend
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Ethical issues (1/10)8.45 Just One Thing
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The benefits of a cup of coffee (5/10) (r)
9.00 Costing the Earth
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9.30 The Media Show (r)
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10.45 Book at Bedtime: Love Marriage
By Monica Ali (8/10)
11.00 Sunil Patel: An Idiot’s
Guide to Cryptocurrency
The comedian Sunil Patel tries to take
the crypto art space by storm (2/4)
11.15 The Skewer
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into a surreal, satirical soundscape (8/8)
11.30 Today in Parliament
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Empire of Pain — The Secret
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Ben DowellThe Folk Show
Radio 2, 9pm
Who knew Martin
Freeman, star of The Office
and The Hobbit (among
other things) was such a fan
of folk music? “I discovered
folk music when I was a kid,
before I knew it was called
‘folk music’,” says Freeman,
above. “Folk music was
always part of the general
thing of me loving music.”
In this special edition of
the show he shares his
favourite tracks, including
music from Crosby, Stills
and Nash, Joni Mitchell,
Odetta and Pentangle.
“All of the tracks I’m
playing resonate with me
in some way. Some go back
further for me than others.
Nick Drake resonates very
deeply for me, and so do
the Unthanks.”
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W
hether or not
authorities of the
16th and 17th
centuries truly,
genuinely believed
that women could be in league with
the Devil, the official accounts of the
day read at best dangerously credulous,
at worst downright psychopathic.
Take the start of Lucy Worsley
Investigates: The Witch Hunts, in
which the head girl of history TV was
in the seaside town of North Berwick
to read out ye olde report of how the
Devil arrived there in 1590. Poring
over old gothic font, Worsley read of
how a group of women bound “the
chiefest parts of a dead man” to a dead
cat, then threw the grisly object into
the sea, creating a cataclysmic storm,
all apparently in a bid to kill King
James of Scotland. Sane grown-ups
believing this stuff? Different times,
you might say, but then consider
QAnon and how seductive such nutty
conspiracy theories clearly remain.
The dead cat story was certainly a
vivid start as Worsley hunted for clues
to why hundreds of women fell victim
to state-sanctioned killings. She ended
up visibly angry, and fair enough.
Because if recognition of the
monstrousness of the witch-hunts has
recently given way to black comedy —
take BBC2’s The Witchfinder (you
wonder what Worsley made of that
one) — the fate of the midwife Agnes
Sampson, outlined in detail here, was
very much the stuff of horror movies.
In 1591 Sampson became the first
woman in the British Isles to be killed
for being a witch — strangled and
burnt at the stake after a psycho-
sexual form of torture was used to
force her to confess to knowing the
Devil. The details I’ll spare you.
What drove this mass behaviour?
Worsley skated through a history of
how the Reformation created paranoia
about the Devil, with tensions between
Protestants and Catholics reachingfever pitch. Meanwhile, King James,
she theorised, was trying to look like
a strongman leader as he eyed up the
English crown. What better way than
by vanquishing the Devil’s acolytes?
There was no time to hear about the
broader witch-hunts of the era, which
started in Germany, but it would
appear there was a more fundamental
reason for witch obsession. As a 1486
theological manual explained, “All
witchcraft comes from carnal lust,
which is in women insatiable.”
Yes, this was the kind of fashionably
emotive history to stoke modern
outrage, yet who wouldn’t be left
dispirited by it, at the willingness of
people to subscribe to persecution?
That’s puritanism for you.
Is Brendan Gleeson morphing into
Donald Trump? In the first episode of
the returning State of the Union, his
character, Scott, entered the hipster
café setting in an alpha-male suit,
with a blowhard demeanour and
yellowy hair that, from behind, made
you swear it was the Donald himself.
Scott was troubled by the woke
barista, then got into a linguistic
debate with his dissatisfied wife about
gender pronouns. In such ways, Nick
Hornby’s series — sparky dialogue
wrapped in a contrivance — is not just
a portrait of a marriage on the rocks
but of a dinosaur struggling to fit in
the new world of cultural correctness.
Is Hornby being autobiographical?Worsley lays bare the horror of the witch-hunts
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