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BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTOR EDWIN OUTWATER - PROM 2: NORTHERN SOUL (320kbs-m4a/292mb/2hrs8mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 15th July 2023
Stuart
Maconie is on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in a celebration of
British club culture, bringing a symphonic edge to the beats that took
English towns across the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the
1960s and 1970s. Music arranged by Joe Duddell and Fiona Brice.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Presented by Georgia Mann.
The MPVs - Turnin' My Heartbeat Up
Dobie Gray - Out On The Floor
Shane Martin - I Need You
Bobby Paris - Night Owl
Rita & the Tiaras - Gone With The Wind Is My Love
Eddie Holman - I Surrender
Tony Clarke - Landslide
The Trammps - Hold Back The Night
Ray Pollard - The Drifter
The Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes
Dana Valery - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Jimmy Beaumont - I Never Loved Her Anyway
Gladys Knight - No One Could Love You More
Barbara McNair - You're Gonna Love My Baby
Sandi Sheldon - You're Gonna Make Me Love You
During
the interval, Stuart Maconie and Joe Duddell talk to Georgia Mann about
the music in tonight's concert and about the heady days of the 60s and
70s.
Luther Ingram - Exus Trek
Frankie Beverly & The Butlers - If That's What You Wanted
Lee David - Temptation Is Calling My Name
Judy Street - What
The Velvets - I Got To Find Me Somebody
Little Anthony & The Imps - Better Use Your Head
Yvonne Baker - You Didn't Say A Word
The Carstairs - It Really Hurts Me Girl
Edwin Star - Time
Frankie Valli - The Night
R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House
Dean Parrish - I'm On My Way
Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over
Tobi Legend - Time Will Pass You By
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
Frank Wilson - Do I Love You?
Singers:
Vula Malinga
Frida Touray
Natalie Palmer
Brendan Reilly
Nick Shirm
Darrell Smith
BBC Concert Orchestra
Edwin Outwater, conductor
Brendan Reilly - Turnin' My Heartbeat Up
Brendan Reilly - Out On The Floor
Nick Shirm - I Need You
Nick Shirm - Night Owl
Frida Mariama Touray - Gone With The Wind Is My Love
Vula Malinga - I Surrender
Brendan Reilly - Landslide
Brendan Reilly - Hold Back The Night
Darrell Smith - The Drifter
BBC Concert Orchestra - Sliced Tomatoes
Natalie Palmer - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies
Nick Shirm - I Never Loved Her Anyway
Vula Malinga - No One Could Love You More
Frida Mariama Touray - You're Gonna Love My Baby
Frida Mariama Touray - You're Gonna Make Me Love You
BBC Concert Orchestra - Exus Trek
Darrell Smith - If That's What You Wanted
Darrell Smith - Temptation Is Calling My Name
Natalie Palmer - What
Natalie Palmer - I Got To Find Me Somebody
Frida Mariama Touray - Better Use Your Head
Vula Malinga - You Didn't Say A Word
Brendan Reilly - It Really Hurts Me Girl
Brendan Reilly - Time
Darrell Smith - The Night
Darrell Smith - There's A Ghost In My House
Nick Shirm - I'm On My Way
Nick Shirm - Long After Tonight Is All Over
Vula Malinga - Time Will Pass You By
Vula Malinga - Tainted Love
Vula Malinga, Frida Touray, Natalie Palmer, Brendan Reilly, Nick Shirm & Darrell Smith - Do I Love You?
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP (320kbs-m4a/377mb/2hrs41mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
Jo Whiley & Steve Lamacq tell the unfiltered story of a genre that shaped modern Britain.
30 years later, Steve and Jo are taking advantage of their contacts, going through old notebooks, photo albums, DATs, Mini Discs and the BBC archives to chart the Rise and Fall of one of the biggest musical movements ever to hit the UK... Britpop.
Presented by Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq
Written by Steve Lamacq and Paul Sheehan
Produced by Paul Sheehan with additional production by Phil Smith
Technical Production by Tim Heffer
Editor for BBC Audio Helen Hobday
Commissioning Producer Jonathan O'Sullivan
Commissioner for BBC Music Will Wilkin
A BBC Audio Production
Archive comes from The Word, Fierce Panda, Channel 4, Hattrick, Steve Lamacq, Peel Acres, Creation Call, Ginger Media and the BBC Archive.
The producers would like to thank all contributors and archive interviewers and interviewees including Matt Everitt, Jax Coombes, Miranda Sawyer, John Harris, Stephen Merchant, Matt Tasker, Dermot O'Leary, Sara Tabar, Anna Richards, Tom Ravenscroft, Sam Cunningham, Chris Morris, Stuart Maconie, Mark Goodier, Georgia Frampton and Snuff.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 0. THIS IS... THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP (320kbs-m4a/7mb/3mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music podcast: 30th June 2023
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 1. OH WELL WHATEVER, NEVERMIND: THE BIRTH OF BRITPOP (320kbs-m4a/46mb/20mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
What was life like before Britpop? Join Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley as they rewind the tape to hear how the UK sounded at the start of the 90's.
Britpop emerged at a very specific time in British History, recession and war had dominated the headlines, the Iron Lady left Downing Street for the final time and the UK's music scene was fractured. Rave was still in relatively rude health, terrifying the tabloids and the parents of teenagers, Morrissey had felt the wrath of music fans after appearing on stage in a Union Jack, and the Manic Street Preachers were bringing their own unique blend of rock n roll to the world. But there was one genre that dominated the airwaves and co-opted the ears of the UKs Youth... Grunge.
In Episode 1 of The Rise and Fall of Britpop, Steve and Jo have new interviews, never-before-heard archive material and more, giving us a warts-and-all look back at the genesis of the scene. Discovering how these different elements collided to create the perfect conditions for a big bang which saw a new wave of British creativity spewed into existence.
Warning: this episode contains strong language, adult themes and descriptions of self-harm and suicide, which some listeners may find distressing. Details of help and support are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 2. ROCK AND ROLL STAR: THE MONTH THAT CHANGED IT ALL (320kbs-m4a/43mb/19mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
Britpop as a term landed in the spring of 1993, but it was a full year later that everything changed, over the course of just twenty days.
In Episode 2 of The Rise and Fall of Britpop, Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley revisit the key moments on the road to Britpop's explosion. Including on-air resignations at Radio 1, a band of rowdy Mancunians and a tragic death which caused shockwaves around the world.
Warning: this episode contains strong language, adult themes and descriptions of self-harm and suicide, which some listeners may find distressing. Details of help and support are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 3. WHAT DO I DO NOW? A CULTURAL TAKE OVER (320kbs-m4a/40mb/17mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
Thirty years ago, a youthquake of creativity took hold of the UK as Britpop sucked everything into its cultural orbit.
From supermodels at Fashion week to Edinburgh's underbelly, and from Match of the Day montages to puppets interviewing rock stars on Breakfast TV, the attitude and aspirations of Britpop reverberated across the country.
In episode 3 of The Rise and Fall of Britpop, Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley dust off old note books, photo albums, CDs and tapes and look at the effect Britpop had on every aspect of British culture.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 4. CONNECTION: THE RISE OF LAD CULTURE (320kbs-m4a/39mb/17mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
As Britpop and lad culture became intertwined, did this heady relationship do a disservice to the women behind the music?
30 years on from Britpop, Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq take a trip back to the 90s to reassess the scene's relationship with sex and gender. From the front covers of lads mags to music videos, they delve into the day to day experiences of many band members.
Featuring new and archive interviews with Louise Wener, Shirley Manson, Miki Berenyi and Justine Frischmann, Episode 4 of The Rise and Fall of Britpop highlights the barriers women faced and celebrates the trails they blazed across the decade.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 5. SOMETHING CHANGED - PULP FICTION (320kbs-m4a/54mb/23mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
Despite Blur and Oasis dominating the headlines, one band more than any other came to represent the soaring highs and crushing lows of Britpop - Pulp. From recording in a semi-detached house in Sheffield to writing songs in a tent the night before headlining Glastonbury, the Pulp story has it all.
Thirty years on from the legendary Radio 1 Evening Session, Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq look back at the history of Pulp, discuss the band's impact and reveal how the intervention of Bob Mortimer and David Bowie might just have saved the 90s.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 6. IT COULD BE YOU - THE BATTLE OF BRITPOP (320kbs-m4a/39mb/17mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
In August 1995, battle lines were drawn and the North vs South rivalry was reignited as Blur and Oasis battled it out for the top spot in the UK charts. What started off as banter soon became a full Britpop war, with offices, classrooms and friendship groups divided.
In episode six of The Rise and Fall of Britpop, Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley tell the real stories behind the 'Battle of Britpop'.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 7. THE DRUGS DON’T WORK (320kbs-m4a/48mb/21mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
As the 90s hurtled towards a new millennium, Britpop wasn't just making big headlines, it had also become very big business.
As money flowed through the UK music industry, everyone was desperate to be part of Cool Britannia. However, with the arrival of money came the arrival of excess.
In Episode 7 of The Rise and Fall of Britpop, legendary Evening Session hosts Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq re-unite to look back at what life was like for those in the eye of the storm.
THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITPOP - 8. TO THE END (320kbs-m4a/60mb/26mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th July 2023
Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq wrap up their analysis of the Rise and Fall of Britpop. They examine the final throes of the phenomenon and revaluate the impact it had on the musical landscape. They'll also hear from some of the key players and the artists Britpop influenced along the way.
THE BANKSY STORY (320kbs-m4a/465mb/3hrs20mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
James Peak isn't an art critic, or even a journalist. He's a Banksy super-fan, and in this series he, and his soundman, Duncan, get closer than close to Banksy's secret world - telling the story of the graffiti kid who made spraying walls into high art, the household name who is completely anonymous, the cultural phenomenon who bites the hand that feeds him.
James persuades a member of Banksy's secret team – someone who worked closely with the artist when they were starting to cut through – to talk about the experience. The story that results is a rollercoaster ride.
Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak
Sound & Commentary: Duncan Crowe.
Music: Alcatraz Swim Team & Lilium
Series Mixing: Neil Churchill
Executive Producer: Philip Abrams
With special thanks to Hadrian Briggs, Pete Chinn, Keith Wickham, Harriet Carmichael, Patrick Nguyen, John Higgs and Steph Warren
An Essential Radio production for BBC Radio 4
THE BANKSY STORY - 0. WELCOME TO THE BANKSY STORY (320kbs-m4a/6mb/2mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 10th July 2023
THE BANKSY STORY - 1. THE MILD, MILD WEST (320kbs-m4a/51mb/22mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, how did the city of Bristol, in the south west of England, help to shape Banksy and his art? And will James and Duncan find the person they're looking for?
THE BANKSY STORY - 2. LOVE & DEATH & BMX (320kbs-m4a/42mb/18mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, James finds someone from Banksy's secret team, but will they talk?
THE BANKSY STORY - 3. SANTA'S GHETTO (320kbs-m4a/43mb/18mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, an incident at the Christmas Santa's Ghetto exhibition helps Steph prove herself to Banksy.
THE BANKSY STORY - 4. REVERSE HEISTS (320kbs-m4a/47mb/20mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, Banksy's hilarious reverse heists at the world's best museums and galleries gain him some serious notoriety.
THE BANKSY STORY - 5. CRUDE OILS (320kbs-m4a/39mb/17mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, Banksy's new show, Crude Oils, stars 200 live rats scuttling about the gallery floor. It certainly brings in the crowds.
THE BANKSY STORY - 6. LA STORY (320kbs-m4a/48mb/20mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode - a new show in LA, Barely Legal, brings in huge celebrity names and, back in the UK, Steph's life at Pictures on Walls gets trickier.
THE BANKSY STORY - 7. A NIGHTMARE ON OXFORD ST (320kbs-m4a/44mb/19mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, a nightmare exhibition on Oxford Street sees Steph in big trouble with the big man.
THE BANKSY STORY - 8. BRUSHED UNDER THE CARPET (320kbs-m4a/41mb/17mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, Banksy returns to Bristol Museum in triumph, while Steph is accused of forgery.
THE BANKSY STORY - 9. RESTORATION (320kbs-m4a/49mb/21mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In this episode, help arrives for Steph from an unlikely source - a person we've heard quite a lot from already. And we head off to Weston-super-Mare for a very special Banksy show.
THE BANKSY STORY - 10. WHO IS HE? (320kbs-m4a/56mb/24mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 17th July 2023
In the last episode of this series, Banksy springs a surprise retrospective show in Glasgow, and we hear why Steph told her story.
THE BANKSY STORY - 11. BONUS EPISODE: THE LOST BANKSY INTERVIEW (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 21st November 2023
In this bonus episode, James is on the trail of a revealing early Banksy interview from 2003 when the artist was starting to cut through.
Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak
Sound & Commentary: Duncan Crowe.
Music: Alcatraz Swim Team & Lilium
Series Mixing: Neil Churchill
Executive Producer: Philip Abrams
With special thanks to Steph Warren, Eddie, Duncan Crowe, Nigel Wrench, Keith Wickham, Helen Toland, Anna Mears, Rob Shiret, Tracey Williams, Neil Churchill, Roger Mahony, Mohit Bakaya and Dan Clarke.
THE BANKSY STORY - 12. NEW BANKSY PIECE: FINSBURY PARK TREE (320kbs-m4a/37mb/16mins)
BBC Sounds podcast: 18th March 2024
The Finsbury Park Tree is a new Banksy artwork which appeared overnight in March 2024 on the Hornsey Road in North London. James Peak investigates this exciting new Banksy street piece, a giant tree made of paint and... ummm, a tree! Is this the first unnickable Banksy? Only time will tell...
With thanks to Rob Shiret, Neil Churchill, Dan Clarke, Roger Mahony, Anna Mears, Philip Abrams, Jo Carr, Jonathan Glover, Steph Warren & Eddie, Avery Stone, Joe at LDN Graffiti and Patrick Nguyen
Assistant Produced by Ruby Churchill
Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak
An Essential Radio Production for BBC Radio 4
DISCOVERY - BODIES, BRAINS AND COMPUTERS (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 17th July 2023
We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now.
Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Professor Ben Garrod, is off to meet some of the sensory innovators and technological pioneers who are developing human like-sensing technology. From skin patches that can read our sugar levels, to brain implants that could use our thoughts to control computers. This is the technology that could blur the boundary between body, mind, and computer chip.
We meet Jules Howard, a zoologist who uses VR to help us explore the anatomical worlds inside animals. Jules shows us the inner-workings of a ducks vagina. We meet Anagram, who's augmented reality experiences can visualise the inner-worlds of those experiencing schizophrenia and ADHD. We play with the health monitors and wearable tech that claim they could make us fitter, happier, and more productive humans. And meet Dr David Putrino, a clinician with Mount Sinai in New York, who's conducting some of the first medically-approved surgery for brain implants.
Presenter: Professor Ben Garrod
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
(Image: Artificial intelligence robot and binary. Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images)
DISCOVERY - REMOTE TOUCH (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 10th July 2023
We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. This technological revolution is starting to profoundly change not only how we interact with the world around us, but is allowing us to see, hear, smell, taste and even touch things we never imagined possible before.
An artificial intelligence revolution is super-charging sensing technology, promising us eyes with laser precision, ears that can distinguish every sound in a mile's radius and noses than can sniff out the early signs of forest fires before the first flame forms.
Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Professor Ben Garrod is off to meet some of these sensory innovators and technological pioneers - the programmers, robotics engineers and neuroscientists, who are turning our world upside down and inside out.
In episode four - we'll explore touch and what role does it plays for our nearest living relatives. Ben tries to give his mum a hug from 5,000 miles away. We discover what brain scans show when Ben given both painful and pleasurable touch. We explore what role the body could play in our use of computers in the future. We hear about remotely-operated sex toys. And learn about how all this might shift our understandings of intimate relationships in the future.
Could these new technologies and natural evolutions be redefining what it is to touch? Ben takes us through the amazing adaptations, and technological developments that could help touch become digitised.
Presenter: Prof Ben Garrod
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
(Photo: Hands touching fingers. Credit: Kelvin Murray/Getty Images)
DISCOVERY - SMELLY PEOPLE (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 3rd July 2023
We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. This technological revolution is starting to profoundly change not only how we interact with the world around us, but is allowing us to see, hear, smell, taste and even touch things we never imagined possible before.
An artificial intelligence revolution is super-charging sensing technology, promising us eyes with laser precision, ears that can distinguish every sound in a mile's radius and noses than can sniff out the early signs of forest fires before the first flame forms.
Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Professor Ben Garrod, is off to meet some of these sensory innovators and technological pioneers. The archaeologists, ecologists and medics, who are turning our world upside down and inside out.
Could these new technologies and natural evolutions be redefining what it is to smell? Ben takes us through the amazing adaptations, and technological developments that could help broaden how we think of our noses.
Presenter: Professor Ben Garrod
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
(Photo: Close up of human nose smelling an animated smell. Credit | Getty Images)
DISCOVERY - SOUND SOLUTIONS (320kbs-m4a/61mb/27mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 26th June 2023
We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. This technological revolution is starting to profoundly change not only how we interact with the world around us, but is allowing us to see, hear, smell, taste and even touch things we never imagined possible before.
An artificial intelligence revolution is super-charging sensing technology, promising us eyes with laser precision, ears that can distinguish every sound in a mile's radius and noses that can sniff out the early signs of forest fires before the first flame forms.
Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Professor Ben Garrod is off to meet some of these sensory innovators and technological pioneers; The archaeologists, ecologists and medics, who are turning our world upside down and inside out.
In episode two, Ben finds sound solutions to tricky problems. We’ll hear about the ear which works up to depths of 500m below the ocean. In this light-deprived oceanic environment, we’ll find out how sound has become the most important sense. We’ll learn how noise pollution has inspired a number of revolutionary scientists to create sound-based solutions to better animal conservation. Along the way, we’ll meet engineers and computer programmers who’ve been able to find animals we thought previously extinct, and learn how one colour blind ornithologist mapped the entirety of a Caribbean archipelago so he could help protect his favourite species from storms and freak climate events.
Could these new technologies and natural evolutions be redefining what it is to hear? Ben takes us through the amazing adaptations and technological developments that could help stretch our hearing further than ever before.
Produced by Robbie Wojciechowski
Presented by Professor Ben Garrod
Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris
(Photo: Field mouse with large ears. Credit: Zoological Society of London/PA Wire)
DISCOVERY - SEEING MORE (320kbs-m4a/61mb/26mins)
BBC World Service broadcast: 19th June 2023
We've been building computers to think like us for years, but our ability to replicate human senses has been impossible. Until now. This technological revolution is starting to profoundly change not only how we interact with the world around us, but is allowing us to see, hear, smell, taste and even touch things we never imagined possible before.
An Artificial Intelligence revolution is super-charging sensing technology, promising us eyes with laser precision, ears that can distinguish every sound in a mile radius and noses than can sniff out the early signs of forest fires before the first flame forms.
Evolutionary biologist and broadcaster Prof Ben Garrod, is off to meet some of these sensory innovators and technological pioneers. The archaeologists, ecologists and medics, who are turning our world upside down and inside out.
In episode one, Ben tries seeing further. The visible world to us is tiny, and we are able to detect just a fraction of the light spectrum that is out there. But new technology is pushing the boundary of what is visible. Ground penetrating LIDAR arrays are helping us to peel back the layers of planet Earth, and see the remains of ancient civilisations, previously invisible to us. The same technology is being used on the moons of Jupiter to provide 3D maps of the craters of faraway worlds. In the forests of west Africa, we meet the psychologists using infrared to monitor the stress levels of silverback gorillas being returned to the wild. And in a lab in central London, we meet the extraordinary animals that see hidden patterns in the natural world and perhaps even fields that are entirely invisible to us.
Could these new technologies be redefining what it is to see, hear, smell, and feel? Ben takes us through the amazing adaptations and development under the bonnet, and speculates where else these all seeing eyes may yet gaze.
Presenter: Professor Ben Garrod
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Production co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
(Image: Concept illustration of eye seen through clouds. Credit: Hans Neleman/Getty Images)
SOUND OF CINEMA - 387. THE WORLD OF DIRECTOR WES ANDERSON (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 24th June 2023
With the appearance this week of Wes Anderson's latest film, Asteroid City, Matthew Sweet looks back at one of Hollywood's most distinctive auteur director's films through the music written to serve them. Titles such as the award-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr Fox.
Mark Mothersbaugh - Bottle Rocket (1995) - Rocky [Island]
George Enescu - The Royal Tenenbaums (2021) - Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Minor [Hollywood]
Mark Mothersbaugh - Rushmore (1998) - Hardest Geometry Problem In The World [Island]
Mark Mothersbaugh - The Life Aquatic (2004) - Zissou Society Blue Star Cadets [Hollywood]
Satyajit Ray - The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - Title Music From Satyajit Ray's film 'Teen Kanya' [ABKCO]
Jarvis Cocker - Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - Petey's Song [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) - Mr. Fox In The Fields [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe, Pt 7 [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - Isle Of Dogs (2018) - Shinto Shrine / End Titles [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Mr. Moustafa [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Night Train To Nebelsbad / A Prayer / Canto At Gabelmeister's Peak [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - The French Dispatch (2021) - Moses Rosenthaler [ABKCO]
Georges Delerue - The French Dispatch (2021) - Adagio from 'Compte a rebours' [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - The French Dispatch (2021) - Animated Car Chase [ABKCO]
Alexandre Desplat - Asteroid City (2023) - WXYZ-TV Channel 8 [ABKCO]
Jarvis Cocker - Asteroid City (2023) - Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven) [ABKCO]
DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: GLASTONBURY MUSIC MAKERS 2023 - EMILY EAVIS (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th June 2023
Emily Eavis is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival. Together with her husband and her father, she masterminds the booking of bands and oversees the setting up of what is the largest greenfield festival in the world. The site itself becomes the size of Oxford town centre once it's built and rigged.
Born in 1979, she was a small child when her parents, Jean and Michael, were inspired to make the Glastonbury Festival an annual event, although she wasn't keen on the yearly invasion of the family farm. By her late teens, however, she had changed her views. She left Worthy Farm to study to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College in London but when, at the end of her first year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Emily left and went home to help look after her and to help her father run that year's festival.
Emily never went back to university. Motivated by a visit to Haiti to look at Oxfam projects, she spent a few years in London putting on charity gigs, before returning home to work with her father running the festival. She married her husband, Nick Dewey, manager of The Chemical Brothers in 2009. The couple have three children and live on Worthy Farm.
Presented by Lauren Laverne.
BOOK CHOICE: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
LUXURY CHOICE: Carpenter's tool set (so she can build her own veranda)
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.
Van Morrison - Madame George
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Bob Marley - High Tide Or Low Tide
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (Live at Warner Brothers Studios)
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Guy Garvey & Peter Jobson - Winterlude
Beyoncé - Crazy In Love
TIM MINCHIN AND FRIENDS (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th June 2023
Adventurous lyrics and musical virtuosity.
A marvellous collision of mirth and piano from the award-winning comic and pianist in his first-ever BBC concert.
Written by and starring Tim Minchin.
With:
Justin Edwards.
Producer: Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 2007.
ARCHIVE ON 4: THE GREAT OUTDOORS (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 3rd June 2023
Matthew Sweet goes outside on an expedition to survey the history of the Great Outdoors.
Never has communing with nature been more celebrated. The cultural conversation is thick with soul-searching rainy walks, philosophical journeys in the company of birds, insects, and the taking of pleasure in a keenly observed scrubland. The idea that the outdoors is good for body and soul is one that permeates the 20th and 21st centuries, but for all the great beauty of nature writing and broadcasting this celebration of the natural world has its roots in often murkier ground.
There are BBC archive encounters with some of the most enrapturing broadcasters of the outdoors - Roger Deakin, Richard Mabey and Robert Macfarlane among others, the outdoors-man Horatio Clare who offers advice and guidance for the would-be rural rambler. The countryside has also been a battleground for political and cultural factions and the archaeologist David Petts shows him Heartbreak Hill, the site of a 1930s work camp in Cleveland set up to get unemployed ironstone miners back to the land. One of its driving forces was Rolf Gardiner, the rural revivalist and fundamentalist Morris dancer.
With Sandra Kerr, the folk singer and, in guise of Madeleine the rag doll, esteemed colleague of Bagpuss, Matthew explores how rural romanticism preoccupied the song collectors of the early 20th century and has his own Madeleine moment as he listens to her sing by a mill stream.
Advice on the right tools for the right job provided by Nuts in May (1976), BBC, Play for Today, BBC1 Directed and Devised by Mike Leigh with Roger Sloman as Keith and Alison Steadman as Candice Marie.
Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Producer: Natalie Steed
A Rhubarb Rhubarb production for BBC Radio 4
ARCHIVE ON 4: WALLS OF SOUND (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 30th June 2023
When Nelson Mandela was tried 1964 he famously said, "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve, but, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Without the British Library's sound conservation work we would never have heard this. The trial was recorded using a Dictabelt system. The recordings soon became unplayable. The Dictabelts were brought to the British Library where digital transfers were made, allowing us to hear what Mandela said, and how.
In 1924, in Paris, James Joyce was recorded reading from 'Ulysses' and the British Library's disc is as highly prized as its Blake, Hardy and Lawrence manuscripts. Alas, we'll never hear how they read their work.
These are just two of recordings of immense importance that without the work of the Sound Conservation Centre would be lost. And what a loss that would be. The British Library has invested millions in the Centre and appointed its first ever Curator of Radio. Audio is being accorded the conservation effort usually devoted manuscripts and old masters. All this, the radio historian Sean Street argues in this programme, reflects a fundamental change in attitude to sound itself.
In a massive undertaking our sound archives are being saved, restored, digitised, catalogued and opened to all. Street observes all this and talks to curators, technicians and users. Throughout we hear amazing recordings from the libraries walls of sound that, until this change in thinking about sound, few knew about, and fewer could listen to. We listen as these recordings find their rightful place in the documentary heritage of the nation.
Producer : Julian May.
CELEBRATING DAFT PUNK! (320kbs-m4a/137mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th May 2023
2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Daft Punk's multi-Grammy-winning hit record Random Access Memories. To celebrate, this week's Rave Forever is dedicated to the robots with some favourites from their wider back catalogue, as well as tracks from their 10th Anniversary Edition album (which includes some previously unreleased demos and studio outtakes).
Daft Punk - GL (Early Take)
Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky
Daft Punk - Give Life Back To Music
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Daft Punk - Infinity Repeating
Daft Punk - Giorgio By Moroder
Daft Punk - Crescendolls
Daft Punk - High Life
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Daft Punk (feat. Todd Edwards) - Fragments Of Time
Daft Punk (feat. Panda Bear) - Doin' It Right
Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams) - Lose Yourself To Dance
Daft Punk - Technologic
Daft Punk - One More Time
Daft Punk - Burnin'
JULES VERNE - 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 17th June 2023
Jules Verne's sci-fi classic brought vividly to life in this thrilling, fast-moving dramatisation, featuring the mysterious Captain Nemo and a ferocious giant squid.
Starring Sagar Arya.
Dramatised by Gregory Evans
Captain Nemo ...... Sagar Arya
Professor Pierre Aronnax ...... Neil McCaul
Miss Connie Aronnax ...... Madeline Hatt
Ned Land ...... David Seddon
Captain Farragut ...... Philip Bretherton
Director: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018.
LAURIE LEE - CIDER WITH ROSIE (320kbs-m4a/260mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th & 16th June 2023
Laurie Lee's autobiographical account of growing up in a Gloucestershire village just after the First World War. Laurie Lee's memoirs, first published in 1959.
Starring Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack.
Dramatised in two parts by Nick Darke.
Recorded on location in and around the Slad valley in Gloucestershire.
Music arranged and performed by Paul Burgess
Directed at BBC Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe
First broadcast on Radio 4 in April 1998.
LAURIE LEE - CIDER WITH ROSIE - 1. A VILLAGE LIFE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 15th June 2023
The Lee family arrive in their new home in the West Country of England.
Laurie ....... Tim McInnerny
Mother ....... Niamh Cusack
Young Loll ....... Sunny Leworthy
Phyllis ....... Jennifer Compton
Harold ....... Paul Currier
Marge ....... Lisa Kay
Doth ....... Briony Fforde
Jack ....... Daniel Clifford
Tony ....... Jed Blacklock
Crabby ........June Barrie
Granny Trill ....... Constance Chapman
Granny Wallon ....... Val Lorraine
Fred Bates ....... Chris Grimes
Uncle Ray/Deserter ....... David Goodland
Miss Flynn ....... Laura Strachan
Spadge Hopkins ....... James Lawton
Lol's school friends played by the pupils of Rodborough Primary and Archway schools in Stroud
LAURIE LEE - CIDER WITH ROSIE - 2. GROWING UP (320kbs-m4a/130mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 16th June 2023
Young Loll experiences his first taste of the adult world.
Laurie ....... Tim McInnerny
Mother ....... Niamh Cusack
Young Loll ....... Sunny Leworthy
Rosie ....... Emily Parrish
Phyllis ....... Jennifer Compton
Harold ............ Paul Currier
Marge ....... Lisa Kay
Doth ....... Briony Fforde
Jack ....... Daniel Clifford
Tony ....... Jed Blacklock
Major Doveton ....... Bill Wallis
Vicar ....... Paul Dodgson
Baroness Von Hodenburg ....... June Barrie
Maurice ....... Chris Grimes
Rosie ....... Emily Parish
Jo Megan ....... Melish
Lizzie Berkeley ....... Laura Beckett
Waltz Carry ....... Luke Glastonbury-Cole
Sixpence ....... Buster Reece
Bony ....... Leanne French
Extras played by the villagers of Slad and Rodborough
GREAT LIVES - MARVIN GAYE (320kbs-m4a/64mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th June 2023
Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow chooses innovative soul singer Marvin Gaye.
Outstanding American soul singer Marvin Gaye met an untimely death at the hands of his own father in 1984.
Presenter Humphrey Carpenter is also joined by DJ Norman Jay to shed light on the musician who broke the Motown mould with such classics as 'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'.
Producer: Mark Smalley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
GREAT LIVES - FRANK ZAPPA (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 25th April 2023
"The most important thing to do in your life is not to interfere with somebody else's life."
Frank Zappa was born December 1940 in Baltimore, USA. Comedian John Robins - who is obsessed - reckons that it was his subsequently itinerant childhood that had much to do with what happened next. Frank's musical output was prodigious and varied, but John laughs out loud when pushed on whether he had any hits. That wasn't the point of Frank Zappa - the music was everything, creating it and performing it.
Joining the award winning comedian and broadcaster in studio is Deb Grant, who provides a steadying balance to John Robins' fan boy approval of all things Zappa. Programme includes multiple clips of Frank himself, including his most famous quote: "Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde
LOSE YOURSELF WITH... NENEH CHERRY (320kbs-m4a/138mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 11th June 2023
Neneh Cherry takes us to Los Angeles, a place that played a huge part in her upbringing.
Parliament - P Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up) [Casablanca]
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Superman Lover
Stevie Wonder - Have A Talk With God [UMG Recordings]
The Watts Prophets - I Remember Watts
Shahara Ja & The Egyptian Lover - I'm an Arabian Knight (Egyptian Lover Vocal Mix) [Left Ear]
Eazy‐E & MC Ren & Dr. Dre - We Want Eazy [Universal]
Dr. Dre & Jewell - Let Me Ride [Death Row]
Dâm-Funk - Do You Feel Like I Feel [Stones Throw]
Thundercat & Steve Lacy & Steve Arrington & Childish Gambino - Black Qualls [Brainfeeder]
Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane [Warp]
Buddy - Young
Ill Camille & Georgia Anne Muldrow & JaVonté - Spider's Jam
Nipsey Hussle - Blue Laces 2 [Atlantic]
Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees [UMG Recordings]
JAMES ACASTER - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 19.05.23 (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 19th May 2023
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from stand-up comedian, record producer and head honcho behind the 40-strong international music collective Temps, James Acaster. As a child, Acaster grew up "obsessed with wanting to record an album one day" before pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian. The opportunity to revisit that desire arose during the first UK lockdown, when he found himself sitting on a wealth of drum tracks recorded on his childhood kit, material initially conceived as being part of a would-be mockumentary about a naive comedian-turned-musician. Stuck at home, the project morphed, and Acaster enlisted the help of some of his favourite artists - including drummer Seb Rochford and vocalists Xenia Rubinos and Quelle Chris - to realise the record. The resulting album, PARTY GATOR PURGATORY (named after a human-sized toy alligator that Acaster won at a county fair when he was 7), disregards genres in favour of experimentalism, packing all his favourite sounds into a singular melting pot of ideas. For his Late Junction mixtape, James Acaster picks out tracks from the likes of Brazilian vocalist Elza Soares, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Marnie Stern and experimental hip hop trio The Sooper Swag Project.
Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
Lonnie Holley - Looking for All [Dust-to-Digital]
katie dey - data
Kiki Hitomi - Yellow Story [Jahtari]
Elza Soares - Dança [Mais Um Discos]
Marnie Stern - Nothing Left
The Sooper Swag Project - Dunk On A Yunk
The Doyenne - End Chaos Pt.1
Tredici Bacci (feat. Charlie Looker) - Vendetta Del Toro
Intro (320kbs-m4a/10mb/4mins)
FRED DEAKIN - FREDMIX13 (CLUB LIFE MIX TAPE) (320kbs/200mb/1hr28mins)
Fred Deakin mailinglist download: 10th July 2023
Elton John - Your Starter For
The Stone Funkers - Can You Follow
Dennis Brown - Out Of The Funk
Will Powers - Kissing With Confidence
SWV - I'm So Into You (Allstars Remix)
Jungle Brothers - J Beez Comin' Through
D-Train - The Shadow Of Your Smile
D-Infuence - Good Lover
Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
Etienne de Crecy - Grokster
Technotronic - Get Up
Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough
Average White Band - When Will You Be Mine
The Strangers - Stimulation
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers - If It Ain't Funky
P-Funk Allstars - Hydraulic Pump
Orange Juice - Hokoyo
Pete Rock & C L Smooth - The Good Life
Push - Traffic
Kirsty MacColl - Walking Down Madison
The Korgis - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
The Neville Brothers - Fly Like An Eagle (MAW Remix)
Visage - The Anvil
King Sporty - Dance To The Music
Suggs - I'm Only Sleeping
Gwen McCrae - Doin' It
War - Flying Machine
Brass Construction - Shakit
Definition Of Sound - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Fatback - Is This The Future
Melaaz - Non Non Non
Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk
Wood Brass And Steel - Funkanova
FREESTYLERS - CLASSIC ESSENTIAL MIX (1998) (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 1 broadcast: 11th June 2023
Relive a classic breaks mix from the Freestylers, first broadcast in February 1998!
Freestylers - Freestyle Noize [PIAS Recordings]
Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer [Asylum]
Beenie Man - Who Am I
Danny Reo - Room Wize [Finders Keepers]
Ninjaman & Flourgen - Zip It Up [Sure Delight]
Freestylers - B-Boy Stance [Telstar TV]
Budbrothers - Do You Wanna
Funkizm - Boogie Butt Sounds [Reel Vybz]
Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge) [INCredible]
Bowser - I Need More Time [Freskanova]
Whodini - Magic's Wand [Ronco]
Cut And Paste - Let's Go Disco
Unknown Artist - Funky 4 U
Wubble-U - Petal [Indolent]
Bowser - Operation Hardheat
Damage Control - Da Pumped Up Phunk [Afro Wax]
Double Six - Real Good [Multiply]
Pick 'N' Mix - Twisted Ska [SixtyDegreesNorth]
Unknown Artist - El Magnifico
Soul Hooligan - Sweet Pea [Freskanova]
Will Shaker - Made Up Of This And That
Star And Garter - Blimey! [Halo The Label]
Freestylers - Drop Tha Boom [Ministry Of Sound]
Freestylers - Don't Stop The Rock [Pandisc]
Freestylers - Don't Stop [Ministry Of Sound]
Information Society - Running [Wide Angle]
Bowser - Let Ya Body Funk [Freskanova]
DeeJay Punk‐Roc - My Beat Box [Independiente]
Tsunami One - Number 43 With Steamed Rice Please [Fuel]
Freestylers - Spaced Invader [Ministry Of Sound]
Freestylers - Check Da Skillz
The Fall - Masquerade [Artful]
DJ Pooch - Let The Bass Roll [Global Television]
Dance Conspiracy - Dub War [XL Recordings]
Ginuwine - Holler (Strike Remix)
John Williams - The Throne Room From 'Star Wars' [Sony Classical]
Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (Acapella) [Island]
The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home [Astralwerks]
Blapps - Don't Hold Back [Blapps!]
FOUR TET - LIVE PRIMAVERA 2023 (320kbs-m4a/172mb/75mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 18th June 2023
Enjoy Four Tet's full DJ set performed at this year's Primavera Festival in Barcelona, recorded exclusively for 6 Music and the only place you can hear it in the UK!
Four Tet - School [Text]
Four Tet - Baby [Text]
Fred again.. & Skrillex & Four Tet - Baby again. [Atlantic]
Jonas Brothers - Only Human [Polydor]
Four Tet - Mango Feedback [Text]
Chloé Robinson & DJ ADHD - Pax [Pretty Weird]
KH - Looking At Your Pager [Three Six Zero Recordings]
Adam F - Circles [Positiva]
SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 24 - 1. WATERLOO SUNSET (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th July 2022
Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks was released in 1967.
Soul Music hears the poignant, thoughtful and life-changing memories of those who love it.
Childhood holidays were an escape from bullying for John Harvey. He describes the unforgettable moment when he heard Waterloo Sunset for the first time, on the radio, in 1967. Getting to know the music of The Kinks, and finding out about the character of its lead singer, Ray Davies, shaped and coloured his life from then on.
Allison Moore Adams is an American who married Vernon, a Brit. Waterloo Sunset was sung at his bedside following a terrible road accident. The painting used to illustrate this edition of Soul Music is of Vernon and Allison on Waterloo Bridge. It's by Allison's friend, Isabelle Logie, who also sang to Vernon in hospital.
Christopher Young used to work in mental health. For him, the lyrics of Waterloo Sunset symbolise the isolation that many people feel.
Professor Allan Moore, a musicologist, discusses why this beautiful pop song works so well.
Producer: Karen Gregor
First brodacast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.
THE MEDIA SHOW - CHARLIE BROOKER (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th June 2023
Charlie Brooker is one of the most influential satirists working today. Having started out as a cartoonist, his razor sharp writing on culture and the media made his TV columns for The Guardian, begun in 2000, essential reading for many. It wasn't long until his acerbic and frequently absurd world view found a home on BBC Four in the form of the TV review show, Screenwipe. He's also behind acclaimed comedies like Nathan Barley. But he's found global fame with the series Black Mirror, which has entered the lexicon for a singular form of technology-enhanced dread. In the week that the new season launches, Charlie Brooker joins The Media Show to look back at his career.
Presenter: Katie Razzall
Producer: Simon Richardson
THIS CULTURAL LIFE - 62. JEREMY DELLER (320kbs-m4a/99mb/43mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 10th June 2023
Winner of the Turner Prize in 2004 and Britain's official representative at the 2013 Venice Biennale, Jeremy Deller is an unconventional artist whose work is as likely to be seen in streets or fields as in museums and galleries. In his work The Battle of Orgreave he restaged a modern civil conflict; a clash between striking miners and police officers. He persuaded a traditional brass band to play Acid House tunes in his work Acid Brass. Perhaps most memorably, on the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme he conjured ghostly platoons of young soldiers all around the UK in his work We're Here because We're Here.
Jeremy talks to John Wilson about some of his most formative creative influences. Seeing The Who's rock musical film Tommy as a teenager was an unforgettable experience that revealed to him the power of imaginative vision. A chance encounter with one of his artist heroes Francis Bacon strengthened his interest in art history, and time spent with Andy Warhol in New York encouraged him to think of art as multi-dimensional and unlimited. He also recounts how P J Harvey's album Let England Shake and the play Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth crystallised ideas he was forming about notions of Englishness which he used in both his work at the British pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, and his work to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
Producer: Edwina Pitman
DICK CLEMENT & IAN LA FRENAIS - LENNON: A WEEK IN THE LIFE (320kbs-m4a/101mb/44mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 1st June 2023
December, 1980: When just 40 people turn up to John Lennon's memorial service in Liverpool, his old pal and promoter Sam Leach is forced to act.
A true story with a huge heart.
The play draws together fragments of reportage from the time, interviews with Lennon himself, the true story of Sam Leach, the Beatles' first promoter and some of the greatest music of the 20th century.
It's all combined with the fictional stories of two lost young people whose lives were transformed by the concert, and Liverpool's own Billy Butler, recreating his earlier self, to create a joyous celebration of life, music and community.
Starring Tony Maudsley.
Written by Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais.
Adapted by Lizzie Nunnery.
Sam Leach ...... Tony Maudsley
Joan Leach ...... Joanna Monro
Debbie Leach ...... Lauren O'Neil
Janine Hobday ...... Laura dos Santos
Morris Tate ...... Bruce Alexander
Clive Inch ...... Craige Els
Kenny Stratton ...... John Shortell
Carol Stratton ...... Alison Pettitt
Billy Butler ...... Billy Butler
Traynor ...... John Biggins
Jonesy ...... David Seddon
Homeless man ...... Rufus Wright
Wooldridge ...... Nigel Hastings
Director: Jessica Dromgoole.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2010.
*** Broadcast as part of 4 Extra's Fab 4 season marking the 60th anniversary of the Beatles first universal chart number 1, From Me To You, in May 1963.
FRANCES MCNEIL - WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS (320kbs-m4a/132mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 31st May 2023
Frances McNeil's drana tells the story of Brian Epstein.
Starring Jonathan Keeble.
Set during the hectic, turbulent years of his relationship with the Beatles and his management of the groups that created the Mersey Sound.
Brian Epstein .... Jonathan Keeble
Jackie Parris .... Laurel Lefkow
John Lennon .... Tim Whitnall
Queenie Epstein .... Ann Beach
Harry Epstein .... Christopher Scott
Liam .... Robert Harper
Mike .... Kim Wall
George Martin .... Alex Lowe
New Yorker .... Kerry Shale
The Actress .... Alice Arnold
Johnny .... Chris Pavlo
Nurse .... Shirley Dixon
Air Stewardess .... Elaine Pyke
Man .... Niven Boyd
Director Andy Jordan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996.
*** Broadcast as part of 4 Extra's Fab 4 season marking the 60th anniversary of the Beatles first universal chart number 1, From Me To You, in May 1963.
JEFF YOUNG - WHEN ELVIS MET THE BEATLES (320kbs-m4a/128mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 30th May 2023
One night in 1965, Elvis Presley invited the young pretenders of pop, The Beatles, to visit him at his Los Angeles mansion.
Jeff Young's drama is inspired by that secret meeting in Bel Air on 27th August. That night is probably the most seismic meeting in music. No cameras, no recording equipment - and only those who were there really know what happened.
This imagined recreation is centred around music which breaks the ice between them – with listeners invited to be a fly on the wall.
Discover what songs were played on Elvis' Jukebox and who sang what in a mythical jam session. This wasn't just the meeting of the two biggest music names in history - it was passing of the baton from the King of Rock 'n' Roll to the upstarts from Liverpool.
Starring Tom Hughes as John Lennon and Kevin Mains as Elvis Presley.
Jeff Young says: "I was a big Beatles fan when I was younger, but for this project, initially, I knew very little about the Elvis and Beatles meeting. Then as I began researching the story, the strangeness of the meeting and the psychological dimensions, the dramatic opportunities became obvious. The larger than life characters involved, including Brian Epstein and Colonel Tom Parker, all set against a backdrop of corrupt American politics and the disastrous war in Vietnam, made for a strange and compelling narrative.
"The piece that has emerged is a kind of fake documentary. Elvis's life was an American Tragedy and the seeds of it are sown here in this meeting between the King and the pretenders to the throne. The Beatles were so young, bewildered and overwhelmed by their rapid rise to fame. In writing this drama I went back my old Beatles records and I became a Beatles fan, all over again."
Written by Jeff Young
John Lennon .... Tom Hughes
Elvis Presley .... Kevin Mains
Ringo Starr .... Tom Dunlea
Paul McCartney .... Shaun Mason
George Harrison .... Michael Hawkins
Brian Epstein .... Daniel Lapaine
Colonel Tom Parker .... Colin Stinton
Producers: Dan Cocker & Polly Thomas
A Something Else production for BBC Radio 2, first broadcast in August 2015.
*** Broadcast as part of 4 Extra's Fab 4 season marking the 60th anniversary of the Beatles first universal chart number 1, From Me To You, in May 1963.
