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In session with Bob Harris is indie-folk duo The Civil Wars. Nashville-based John Paul White and Joy Williams released their debut album, Barton Hollow, earlier this year and have received wide critical acclaim for their sound, which fuses soaring anthemic pop melodies with sparse acoustic folk sensibilities.

They have recently been performing as part of Adele's European and US tour and are nominated in the “best new and emerging artist” category at this year's Americana Music Awards, which are held in Nashville in October.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth

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Jeremy Vine passes the midway point in BBC Radio 2's audio journey through five decades of triumph, tragedy and trivia, and reaches 1976.

This was the year of the great drought, the American Bicentennial, Denis Healey and Jimmy Carter. The music is what they called AOR (album oriented rock) – Joan Armatrading, the Eagles and Peter Frampton – but there are some noisy new kids on the block in the shape of The Damned and the Sex Pistols.

Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Trevor Dann for TDC

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Fiona Talkington presents music from the Tiptons Saxophone Quartet, songs from Brigitte de Mey and Sam Amidon, piano music by Ravel and sounds from the plains of Colombia.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Juan Carlos Jaramillo

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Patrick Stewart stars as Raymond Chandler in Strangers on A Film

Patrick Stewart is Raymond Chandler and Clive Swift is Alfred Hitchcock in this drama about their famous collaboration on Strangers On A Train.

In 1950, Alfred Hitchcock invited Raymond Chandler to work with him on a screenplay based on Patricia Highsmith's novel. Chandler was not only recognised as a fine novelist but had also received an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay The Blue Dahlia. The omens were good but their collaboration turned out to be a disaster.

Today's Afternoon Play, Strangers On A Film by Stephen Wyatt, accompanies the second part of the Classic Chandler season which starts on BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 1 October with The Long Goodbye.

Producer/Claire Grove for the BBC

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

Eleanor Oldroyd presents a comprehensive round-up of the day's sports news.

At 8pm, London Calling catches up with more Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls as the countdown to London 2012 continues.

At 9pm, 5 Live Rugby has Rugby World Cup discussion and debate, including a look ahead to England versus Scotland and Wales versus Fiji this weekend.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Mike Carr

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

Shaun Keaveny takes a rib-tickling satirical romp through the day's news and events, to the perfect morning soundtrack for any music-lover: from northern soul to new folk; rock 'n' roll to indie disco.

Former BBC Radio 6 Music presenter and now BBC Radio 5 Live afternoon presenter Richard Bacon joins Shaun after 9am to chat about the new series of his Beer And Pizza Club, which returns to ITV4 in October.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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Tonight's archive material includes a complete Peel session from alternative rock specialists The Butthole Surfers and Icelandic rockers Sigur Rós in concert at Glastonbury in 1993.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Henry Real Lopez

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