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• Saturday – Pick Of The Pops (1-3pm): Tony Blackburn counts down the charts from this week in 1959 and 1972, with classic hits from Craig Douglas, Frankie Vaughan, Mott The Hoople and Roxy Music

• Saturday – Going Out With Patrick And Gaby (6-8pm): Patrick Kielty and Gaby Roslin sit in for Alan and Mel, kick-starting Saturday night with fun, laughs and favourite party tunes

• Saturday – Russell Kane's Whistle Stop Tour (Ep 6/6) (10-11pm): Russell Kane reaches Bournemouth, the final destination in his whistle-stop tour of six seaside locations

• Sunday – Barbara Windsor sits in for Elaine Paige (1-3pm)

• Monday to Friday – Richard Madeley (6.30-9.30am): Richard sits in for Chris Evans all week on the Breakfast Show

• Monday – Ken Bruce (9.30am-12noon): Ken's Tracks Of My Years guest throughout the week is Welsh baritone and former X Factor finalist Rhydian Roberts

• Monday – Big Band Special (9.30-10pm): Clare Teal presents the second part of the BBC Big Band in concert with funk and soul saxophonist Maceo Parker

• Wednesday – Trevor Nelson's Soul Show (11pm-12midnight): Tonight's Album Of The Week is Diamonds And Pearls by Prince & The New Power Generation, which spawned the hits Cream and Gett Off

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The Bible formed in the mid-Eighties around singer Boo Hewerdine and keyboard/percussion player Tony Shepherd. They released their debut album, Walking The Ghost Back Home, in 1986 and enjoyed a Top 10 hit on the UK Independent chart.

In 1988 the band's second album, Eureka, was released, with single Honey Be Good giving them another hit the following year. Soon afterwards the band dissolved and the members moved on to other music projects. Despite briefly reforming in late 1993, solo projects took precedence and the reunion was short-lived. Twenty five years on from their first beginnings, new material is once again on the way and the original members – Boo, Tony and Neill MacColl – join Bob Harris tonight to play live and talk about two very special anniversary concerts in Glasgow and London and the release of an extended and re-mastered edition of their debut album.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson for the BBC

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BBC Radio 3 presenter Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside muses on the idea of how hands, fingers, thumbs and their use have directly affected Western keyboard composition.

Pianist Stephen Hough, composer Huw Watkins and critic Bryce Morrison join in with their insights into how the physiology of great composers' hands had an impact on the music that they wrote, and the various challenges performers face as a result.

The programme includes works from great pianist-composers Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninov alongside music by frustrated pianists Schumann and Scriabin through Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and finishes with the ultimate challenge for contemporary pianists, the phenomenally difficult études of non-pianist György Ligeti.

Presenter/Iain Burnside, Producer/Mark Swartzentruber, A Perfectly Normal Production for the BBC

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Gareth Malone, star of BBC Two's Bafta-winning The Choir, continues his series of four programmes exploring the many aspects of a subject close to his heart – "musical youth".

This week's programme includes music by Mendelssohn, Prokofiev and Vaughan Williams.

Presenter/Gareth Malone, Producer/Sam Phillips

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Angela Gheorghiu as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust

A stellar cast, led by Angela Gheorghiu as Marguerite, features in this revival of David McVicar's Royal Opera House production of Gounod's Faust, conducted by Evelino Pidò live from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo plays the title role; bass René Pape is Méphistophélès, who makes Faust an offer he can't refuse; and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Valentin, the brother Marguerite could live without.

The programme is presented by Louise Fryer in conversation with Claire Launchbury.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Papp

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This week's returning series on BBC Radio 4 include:

• The Bottom Line (Ep 1/9), Saturday, 5.30-5.55pm;

• A View Through A Lens (Ep 1/5), Monday to Friday, 3.45-4.00pm;

• Great Lives (Ep 9/9) – Footballer Graeme le Saux champions the life of conservationist Gerald Durrell, Tuesday, 4.30-5.00pm;

• Afternoon Play – Bad Faith: Unoriginal Sin (Ep 1/3), Friday, 2.15-3.00pm.

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Kenneth Cranham stars as Vasily Grossman's epic tale of a family torn apart by war in Soviet Russia continues.

As the Russian tanks encircle Stalingrad, the commanders of the German 6th Army realise that the end is in sight – but Hitler will not permit a surrender. Spiridonov (Cranham) abandons the power station to join his daughter, Vera (Morven Christie), and her new baby on a barge frozen into the Volga. As the citizens of Stalingrad start to reclaim their wrecked city, the family begin to make plans for the future.

This episode was dramatised for radio by Jonathan Myerson.

Producer and Director/Alison Hindell for the BBC

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David Goldblatt looks at the Christiania phenomenon as he visits the 40-year-old commune in the heart of Copenhagen – one of the world's boldest experiments in free living.

Over the past four decades, the BBC has visited Christiania regularly. In this programme, David revisits some of those reports to tell the history of this commune – and gains access to a unique oral history of Christiania in which long-time members tell their own personal versions of events.

Listeners hear how an abandoned barracks in Copenhagen became a centre for liberal drugs laws, hands-off parenting and free-form architecture, and how it evolved from a dangerous area for social drop-outs to being a focus of Copenhagen's tourist industry and a place that many of the city's residents would fight hard to defend.

As well as looking at its history, David assesses the future and asks what mainstream society can learn from this counter-cultural experiment.

Presenter/David Goldblatt, Producer/James Crawford for the BBC

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Mark Pougatch previews the day's sport including the afternoon's football action.

From 12.45pm there's live Premier League commentary on Manchester City versus Everton, plus updates from Dunfermline versus Rangers in the Scottish Premier League and reports from the Rugby World Cup tie between England and Romania in Dunedin, New Zealand this morning.

There is live coverage of all the 3pm kick-offs, including Arsenal versus Bolton Wanderers and Chelsea versus Swansea City in the Premier League and Celtic versus Inverness in the Scottish Premier League, plus live Formula 1 qualifying from the Singapore Grand Prix.

In Sports Report at 5pm there's post-match reaction and interviews, along with Premier League updates from Stoke City versus Manchester United and Watford versus Nottingham Forest in the Championship.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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Motor racing fans can enjoy live and uninterrupted commentary on the third practice session and the qualifying session for the Singapore Grand Prix.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Tonight sees 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. Both teams are looking to get one over their American League East rivals as they head to the playoffs. Josh Chetwynd and Nat Coombs host commentary from Yankee Stadium in New York.

Producer/Simon Crosse for USP

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Sharin from The Raveonettes joins Liz Kershaw to talk about her fantasy party. The Danish indie rock duo released their fifth album, Raven In The Grave, earlier this year. The programme also includes theme-based requests and a listener's All Killer, No Filler album.

Presenter/Liz Kershaw, Producer/Adam Hudson

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Iconic DJ Andrew Weatherall returns for the latest edition of his 6 Mix residency.

One of Britain's best-loved DJs, Andrew has been busy touring the world with Primal Scream to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal album Screamadelica, as well as remixing the likes of Toddla T and Death In Vegas. In his latest 6 Mix show, Andrew plays an eclectic selection of music, from folk to rockabilly via dubby, leftfield beats, as well as new work and remixes fresh from his Rotters Golf Club studio in East London.

In the final 30 minutes of the show, Andrew throws opens the doors to his Sunday Night Disco featuring a live 30-minute mix of upfront new dance music.

Presenter/Andrew Weatherall, Producer/Rowan Collinson for Somethin' Else

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