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Country pop superstar Glen Campbell

Johnnie Walker meets country pop superstar Glen Campbell. After a 60-year career and the release of his latest highly acclaimed album Ghost On The Canvas, Glen is preparing for a farewell tour.

From the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour to an appearance alongside John Wayne in True Grit, his theme song Rhinestone Cowboy and Allan Toussaint's Southern Nights, Glen looks back on a decade that spawned some of his greatest hits and his TV show that broadcast to an audience of 50 million.

Also on the show is Tony Hawks, an author and comedian famed for his trip Round Ireland With A Fridge. He talks about his favourite music from the Seventies, including gems from his friends Elkie Brooks and Peter Gabriel.

And, finally, Johnnie spins favourites from Aretha Franklin's critically acclaimed 1971 album Young, Gifted And Black.

Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Rebecca Maxted for Wise Buddah Creative Limited

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Tony Bennett, a legend from the American swing era, guides listeners through his selection of the 40 defining songs from the Great American Songbook in this repeat broadcast.

Tony has lived the songs and sung the songs and now offers his personal thoughts and insights into some of the greatest compositions ever written. Sir Michael Parkinson leads the way through 10 songs each week and Tony recalls anecdotes about the people who created them, the pantheon of singers who have interpreted them and his thoughts about what makes each one special.

In tonight's second episode, Tony illustrates the musical and lyrical sophistication in a line-up that includes Louis Armstrong's Stardust, Duke Ellington's Take The "A" Train, and Frank Sinatra's dramatic performance in It Was A Very Good Year. The featured instrumental is Cherokee by the Charlie Barnet Orchestra.

Presenters/Sir Michael Parkinson and Tony Bennett, Producer/Phil Critchlow for TBI

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The story of Oscar-winning husband and wife songwriting team Alan and Marilyn Bergman can be heard in this repeat series, featuring a specially recorded in-depth interview with the lyricists plus contributions from important names in the industry.

The series examines what has kept one of Hollywood's greatest songwriting duos together – and at the top of their game – for more than 50 years and reveals the stories behind some of their greatest hits.

Tonight's second programme considers the art behind their craft and how Johnny Mercer influenced their early work. Contributors include composer Marvin Hamlisch and singers Johnny Mathis and Maureen McGovern. Featured songs include The Way We Were, Yellow Bird and You Don't Bring Me Flowers.

Producer/Malcolm Prince for the BBC

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In the month when schools, colleges and universities return for the new academic year, Brian D'Arcy reflects on the opportunities available to learn more about the world around us.

Music includes Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise; Now Thank We All Our God; and Lord For The Years, from the choral scholars of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, accompanied by James Davy and directed by Andrew Earis.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Simon Vivia for the BBC

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Michael Berkeley's guest this week is novelist Simon Mawer, whose most recent novel, The Glass Room, was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize.

Mawer's music choices begin with a piece by Hildegard of Bingen and continue with an extract from Mozart's Mass in C minor, K427. Among his other choices are Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 which, for Mawer, is the most remarkable piece of abstract art; and works by Janáček and Vitezslava Kapralova, the Czech female composer who died young in 1940, which remind him of Brno in the Czech Republic.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall

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Richard Coles travels to Greece to rediscover the ancient culture in which homoerotic love was part of a social code, in the second programme in this four-part series telling the global story of gay identity.

Richard travels to the plane of Chaeronea, where the famous Sacred Band of Thebes – a military unit made up of same-sex lovers – fought and died in 338BC. The Lion monument overlooking the site of the slaughter speaks of an attitude towards the Sacred Band at odds with today's modern feminised view of homosexuality.

Richard also explores the impact of the Abrahamic monotheistic religions, beginning with the Mosaic laws of Judaism.

Presenter/Richard Coles, Producer/Tom Alban

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John Sessions, Richard Johnson, Michael Maloney, Pip Torrens, Paul Moriarty and Hattie Morahan star in Ranjit Bolt's reworking of Pierre Corneille's classic comedy The Comic Illusion.

The play tells of Pridamant (Moriarty) who seeks his estranged son with the help of wizard Alcandre (Johnson). The magician shows the grieving father the boy's recent life in the form of an action-packed comedy adventure.

The runaway Clindor (Maloney) is now a servant working as go-between, wooing Isabelle (Morahan) on behalf of his employer Matamore (Torrens). But Clindor and Isabelle have fallen in love, so Clindor now woos on his own behalf.

Events lead to Clindor's imprisonment for murder, but he escapes and, with Isabelle and two friends, flees to Paris. There the illusory scene shifts, as Corneille raises the action yet another level – that of play within play within play – before all is finally revealed.

Director/Peter Kavanagh

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Royal photographer Arthur Edwards joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC

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Kenneth Branagh stars in the final part of Vasily Grossman's epic tale set against the Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Russia.

Viktor's (Branagh) scientific breakthrough has not brought him the success he expected. Instead he is gradually ostracised for his "anti-Soviet" science. He starts to dread the knock at the door. Zhenya's (Raquel Cassidy) visit to Moscow brings some distraction but it is Marya (Harriet Walter) in whom he longs to confide.

Greta Scacchi also stars, as Lyuda, in this episode dramatised for radio by Mike Walker.

This radio adaptation of Life And Fate, by Jonathan Myerson and Mike Walker, is based on Robert Chandler's English translation of Grossman's novel.

The original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead is performed by Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey Blythe and Max Pownall.

Producer and Director/Alison Hindell for the BBC

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The Time Being – Photo Finish Ep 1/3

Sunday 25 September

7.45-8.00pm BBC RADIO 4

To win Olympic gold Terri must overcome her rivals in both mind and body, in Photo Finish by Louise Lee – the first episode in the latest season of The Time Being, which showcases more new writers, none of whom have been previously broadcast.

Terri discovered her talent for running when she was chased by her mother's angry boyfriend. Fifteen years later it's the Olympic marathon. Terri is tipped for gold, but she will have to overcome her rivals: voluptuous world No. 1 Jana de Groot and the surgically modified Nadine Uberhang.

Louise Lee is a private investigator. Currently a Birkbeck MA student in Creative Writing, she is busy writing her first novel, The Last Honeytrap, based on her own experiences in the seedy and often comical world of entrapment.

Reader/Philippa Stanton, Producer/Jeremy Osborne for Sweet Talk Productions

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Heston Blumenthal discusses his life, career and favourite music with Kirsty Young in the second programme in this series featuring chefs and cooks.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC

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Ian Payne presents the Sunday Review with a look at the weekend's sport, plus reports from the Rugby World Cup tie between Argentina and Scotland in Wellington, New Zealand this morning.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Mike Carr

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5 Live Formula 1 – 2011: Singapore Grand Prix

Sunday 25 September

1.00-3.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Live commentary comes from the Singapore Grand Prix, plus there are football updates from Cardiff City versus Leicester City in the Championship.

Presenter/David Croft, Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 25 September

3.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Ian Payne and guests present the build-up to Queen's Park Rangers versus Aston Villa in the Premier League, followed by full commentary on the match from 4pm.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Mike Carr

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Uninterrupted commentary comes from the game between Cardiff City and Leicester City in the Championship.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Cycling

Sunday 25 September

3.10-4.15pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the closing stages of the Men's Road Race at the World Road Cycling Championships comes live from Copenhagen.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Cricket

Sunday 25 September

6.45-9.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second Twenty20 International between England and West Indies comes live from the Oval in London.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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5 Live NFL

Sunday 25 September

9.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

The Green Bay Packers continue their Super Bowl defence with a trip south to their fiercest rivals, the Chicago Bears. Full commentary from Soldier Field is hosted by Nat Coombs and Greg Brady.

Producer/Simon Crosse for USP

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Today's show features a live performance from Fatoumata Diawara.

Born in the Côte d'Ivoire and raised in Mali, Fatou is now based in Paris and is creating a distinctively African spin to the concept of the female singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Fatou, is released on World Circuit records in September and she has already received accolades from the likes of Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté, Herbie Hancock and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Former Housemartins and Beautiful South front man Paul Heaton is in the hot seat as The First Time With... continues with another look at the career of a musical icon.

In many ways, Paul Heaton defies musical categorisation. A lyrical romantic yet also an arch satirist; a singer whose voice is part Northern crooner and part Memphis soul. He fronted The Housemartins – a band who mixed Marxist politics and Christianity, yet they were also one of the only early Eighties indie bands to cross over into the mainstream. His next project was The Beautiful South, an unpretentious, modest yet sophisticated pop group working in an era defined by grunge who quietly became one of the biggest and best loved bands in the county. In 1994 one in seven UK households owned a Beautiful South record.

Paul talks to presenter Matt Everitt about his early and incredibly diverse musical influences, the birth of The Housemartins and their resultant split, how he dealt with the massive success of The Beautiful South, his battle with alcohol and a lifetime dominated by an almost obsessive love of music.

Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Paul Raffaelli

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Huey Morgan gets eclectic, bringing his NYC style to Sunday afternoon and spinning hip hop, soul, disco, rock, blues and punk – plus anything else that has caught his ear.

Those romantic-punks-gone-Mexican, Mariachi El Bronx, are Huey's guests. They have returned to Mariachi for their latest album, Mariachi El Bronx II.

Roger Armstrong, founder of the legendary Ace Records who have released and reissued some of the greatest soul, jazz, rock 'n' roll, punk, country and world music ever heard, is the current don of Sharing Is Caring, making his final killer selection for Huey.

And once again Huey puts the needle to the record to celebrate another listener's vinyl fetish by digging out one of their favourite records from the BBC vaults.

Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Tom Whalley for Wise Buddah

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Pioneering producer DJ Shadow takes control of the 6 Mix, talking about the making of his seminal Endtroducing LP and his brand new album.

Raised in Bakersfield, California, Shadow – aka Josh Davis – started his career experimenting with making sample-based electronic music, which found its way into the hands of British DJ James Lavelle, hip hop aficionado and founder of the Mo' Wax label. However, it was the release of his 1996 album Endtroducing – the first ever LP to be wholly constructed out of samples – which made Davis's name.

In this special 6 Mix, Shadow discusses the making of Endtroducing as it celebrates its 15th birthday. He picks 10 records which inspired the album, including tunes by Kurtis Blow, Tangerine Dream and Metallica, and talks about why they were integral to its make-up.

In the second hour of the show there's a chance to hear some of the music currently exciting Shadow, as well as tunes which inspired the production on his new album, The Less You Know, The Better.

Presenter/DJ Shadow, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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