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Afternoon Play – Strangers On A Film

Thursday 29 September on BBC RADIO 4

Patrick Stewart plays Raymond Chandler with Clive Swift as Alfred Hitchcock in Stephen Wyatt's drama about the pair's famous collaboration on Strangers On A Train

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The Hands Of The Composer

Saturday 24 September on BBC RADIO 3

Iain Burnside, along with pianist Stephen Hough, composer Huw Watkins and critic Bryce Morrison, consider how hands, fingers, thumbs and their use have directly affected Western keyboard composition

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Opera On 3

Saturday 24 September on BBC RADIO 3

Evelino Pidò conducts Gounod's Faust, starring Angela Gheorghiu, live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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5 Live Baseball

Saturday 24 September on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

The network provides coverage of the final weekend of the Major League Baseball season, as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox renew one of the greatest rivalries in sport

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Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70s

Sunday 25 September on BBC RADIO 2

As he prepares for a farewell tour, country pop superstar Glen Campbell talks to Johnnie Walker about the decade that spawned some of his greatest hits and his TV show that was watched by more than 50 million

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Drama On 3 – The Comic Illusion

Sunday 25 September on BBC RADIO 3

Ranjit Bolt's reworking of Pierre Corneille's classic comedy stars John Sessions, Richard Johnson, Michael Maloney, Pip Torrens, Hattie Morahan and Benjamin Whitrow

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Greetings Pop Pickers – The Story Of Pick Of The Pops

Tuesday 27 September on BBC RADIO 2

Sir Tim Rice celebrates the 50th anniversary of Alan Freeman's first time as presenter of POTP, one of UK radio's longest running programmes

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Capitalism On Trial

Tuesday 27 September on BBC RADIO 4

Michael Portillo puts capitalism on trial at a moment when it seems both more dominant and more precarious than ever

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Night Waves

Wednesday 28 September on BBC RADIO 3

Controversial Danish director Lars von Trier discusses his career

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Home From Home

Friday 30 September on BBC RADIO 4

Hardeep Singh Kohli uncovers personal stories which illustrate and reflect the changing relationship between the UK and India

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Afternoon Play – Bad Faith: Unoriginal Sin

Friday 30 September on BBC RADIO 4

Lenny Henry stars as irreverent Police Chaplain Jake Thorne in a new series of Peter Jukes's acclaimed drama

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