Joni Mitchell recorded live at Wembley Arena in 1983.
Joni Mitchell - Freeman In Paris Joni Mitchell - Solid Love Joni Mitchell - God Must Be A Boogie Man Joni Mitchell - (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care Joni Mitchell - Carey Joni Mitchell - I Could Drink A Case Of You Honey Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell - Woodstock Joni Mitchell - Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody Joni Mitchell - Ameila Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon
Jason and Andrew from Sleaford Mods take time out from their European tour to fill in for Iggy Pop.
Expect some Squarepusher, PJ Harvey, Andy Votel and Pet Shop Boys amongst others.
Miles Davis - Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) [Avid Entertainment] Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car (Girl) [Warp] Armand Hammer (feat. billy woods & Elucid) - Blocked Call [Fat Possum] Doctor Rockit - Runner On Hastings Beach [Accidental Ltd] The Escalators - Video Club [Ace] Gov Lewis & Jimmy Ranks - Arise Big Daddy Kane - Warm It Up, Kane [Rhino/Warner] Laurie Anderson - Big Science 2 [Nonesuch/Warner] PJ Harvey - Seem An I [Partisan] Sly & Robbie - Boops (Here To Go) [4th & Broadway] RVG - Common Ground Earthling - 1st Transmission [Chrysalis] Luther Vandross - She's A Super Lady [Epic/Legacy] Beastie Boys - Eugene's Lament [Capitol] MELONYX - Soul Glow Bedouin Burger - Taht El Wared RVG - Nothing Really Changes (Sleaford Mods Remix) PJ Harvey - The Garden [Universal/Island] Special Interest - LA Blues Andy Votel - Canter (Slut Smalls 7" Version) Sky Ferreira - Boys [Capitol (CAP)] LFO - Simon From Sydney [Warp] Westside Gunn (feat. Wale & Joyce Wrice) - French Toast Burial (feat. The Spaceape) - Spaceape [Hyperdub] Barry Gray - Joe 90 (Main Titles) [Silva Screen] Arab Strap - Fable Of The Urban Fox [Rock Action] Iggy Pop - Tonight [Virgin Catalog (V81)] Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [Parlophone]
The story of Everton Football Club took a dramatic turn today when news dropped that they were to receive a ten-point deduction from the Premier League for breaching Profit & Sustainability Rules in 2022. This is the largest penalty given out in Premier League history. This bonus episode contains reaction to Everton's point deduction from Conor Coady and Leon Osman and is presented by Darren Fletcher. This was an episode of 5 Live's Football Daily broadcast on 17th November 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.
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.
Screenwriter Russell T Davies shares his castaway choices with Lauren Laverne.
Russell is one of the UK's most successful TV writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in TV began in the children's department at the BBC.
His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999.
A lifelong Doctor Who fan, he relaunched the series in 2005 for a new generation of viewers. Such was its success, he found himself working around the clock.
More recently, he wrote the highly-acclaimed series A Very English Scandal, starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, and the dystopian drama Years and Years.
BOOK CHOICE: Asterix and the Roman Agent by by René Goscinny with illustrations by Albert Uderzo LUXURY ITEM: A black Ball Pentol Pen CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Leonard Bernstein's Gloria in excelsis
Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
Julie Covington, Charlotte Cornwell, Rula Lenska - Sugar Mountain Jascha Heifetz & Emanuel Bay - Hora Staccato (1950 Version) The New Christy Minstrels - Three Wheels On My Wagon The Norman Scribner Choir - Leonard Bernstein's Gloria In Excelsis Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights The OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix) Neil Hannon - Song For Ten Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Billie Piper is castaway on a desert island by Lauren Laverne.
Billie is an Olivier Award winning actor and former pop star.
She was born in Swindon in September 1982, and her parents nurtured her interests in dance and drama from a young age.
After a winning a scholarship to study at the Sylvia Young Theatre School, she moved to London as a young teenager, leaving the family home. By the age of 15, she was a full time pop star. She became the youngest female artist ever to go straight to number one in the UK charts when her debut single was a hit in 1998.
Just three years later, after releasing more successful singles and two albums and touring furiously to promote them, Billie left the music industry. She married the DJ Chris Evans, and found herself the frequent subject of newspaper stories.
She decided to turn to acting, her first love, and by 2005 she was back in the spotlight playing Rose Tyler in the BBC's revival of Doctor Who.
Since then she has taken on a wide range of acclaimed screen and stage roles, most notably picking up all six available awards for Best Actress – including the Olivier Award – when she starred in a new version of Lorca's play Yerma. Her recent TV series I Hate Suzy, which she co-created, has been BAFTA nominated and she has also written and directed her first film, Rare Beasts.
BOOK CHOICE: The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy LUXURY ITEM: Billie's children's art work CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Champagne Supernova by Oasis
Producer: Sarah Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2021.
Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) Fleetwood Mac - Sara The Prodigy - Out Of Space Oasis - Champagne Supernova The Streets - Turn The Page Beyoncé - Halo The Notorious B.I.G - Juicy
Actor David Tennant is castaway on a desert island by Kirsty Young.
He has been voted the best Doctor Who ever and has redefined the Time Lord for a generation of parents and children.
As a child he was a huge fan of the programme; he reckons he only ever missed one episode, wore a long stripy scarf and queued up to meet Tom Baker and get his autograph.
As a role, he says, it appealed not just to his adult self but to the eight-year-old boy who was just below the surface.
BOOK CHOICE: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu - Marcel Proust LUXURY CHOICE: A solar DVD player loaded with the seven series of the West Wing CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: White Wine in the Sun - Tim Minchin
Producer: Leanne Buckle
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.
The Proclaimers - Over And Done With Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army The Housemartins - Me And The Farmer Deacon Blue - Dignity Eddie Izzard - The Starship Enterprise Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
SURVIVING DOCTOR WHO - AN A-Z (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins) BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th & 19th November 2023
Comedian Toby Hadoke presents a wry insight into the ups and downs of being one of the universe's most misunderstood species: the Doctor Who fan. From Anticipointment to Zarbi, via Kennedy (John F) and Underpants (Tom Baker) here's a guide to everything you need to know about surviving being a follower of one of TV's strangest and greatest hits, using a true fan's favourite thing: a list.
JOHN WYNDHAM - THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS (320kbs-m4a/261mb/1hr54mins) BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 28th October & 4th November 2023
John Wyndham's sci-fi masterpiece, first published in 1957, is the tale of an English village where the women are simultaneously impregnated by parasitic aliens.
Starring Bill Nighy and Sarah Parish.
Dramatised by Dan Rebellato.
Director: Polly Thomas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November/December 2003.
John Wyndham's sci-fi masterpiece, first published in 1957, is the tale of an English village where a mysterious alien force takes its toll on the woman.
Richard .... Bill Nighy Janet .... Sarah Parish Zellaby .... Clive Merrison Alan .... Nicholas R Bailey Ferelleyn .... Katherine Tozer Dr Willers .... Mark Chatterton Mrs Willers .... Barbara Marten Reverend Leebody .... Malcolm Raeburn Miss Lamb .... Christine Brennan Miss Ogle .... Rebecca Bridle
It's four years since 'The Day Out' in Midwich. The children now exert an eerie hold on the village.
Richard .... Bill Nighy Janet .... Sarah Parish Zellaby .... Clive Merrison Alan .... Nicholas R Bailey Ferelleyn .... Katherine Tozer Chief Superintendent John Westcot .... Seamus O'Neill David Pawle .... Lloyd Peters Miss Lamb .... Christine Brennan Reverend Leebody .... Malcolm Raeburn Miss Ogle .... Rebecca Bridle William .... Casey O'Brien Angela .... Mariella Brown Girl .... Rosie Fleeshman Boy .... Mat Belshaw
Robotics expert, Deborah, builds artificial bees in order to help pollinate fruit trees across the world - real bees having been driven to the brink of extinction.
But then a strange phenomenon strikes mankind - people start getting lost. It happens slowly, people lose their way, forget where they are. But before long society starts to crumble.
Deborah must fight her way across an apocalyptic Britain and find her way back home. But first she must remember where that is.
Anita Sullivan's dark and cautionary tale about our busy technology-filled lives.
Deborah .... Alice Lowe May .... Harriet Walter Ant .... Stuart McLoughlin Hire Car Salesman .... Alun Raglan Customs Official .... John Norton Lost passenger .... Claire Cage
Director: James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2014
KATHMANDU OR BUST (320kbs-m4a/397mb/2hrs51mins) BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th October to 10th November 2023
A bumpy ride is ahead for five travellers, an old army truck and a dream - plus a clueless expedition leader. Comedy by David Napthine and Mike Yeaman.
Five travellers, an old army truck and a dream - oh, and a clueless expedition leader who's never been outside Europe and can't read a map...
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Simon .... David Haig Petra .... Michelle Chadwick Callum .... Forbes Masson Trigger .... Richard Ridings Joan .... Sarah Crowden Ellie .... Lolly Susi Bernice .... Natasha Pyne
Having missed Vienna because Trigger took a wrong exit at a roundabout, the travellers are beginning to worry about the expedition itinerary...
- and about the food, the accommodation, the sleeping arrangements and the state of Trigger's socks.
Mutiny is in the air ...
Simon .... David Haig Petra .... Michelle Chadwick Callum .... Forbes Masson Trigger .... Richard Ridings Joan .... Sarah Crowden Ellie .... Lolly Susi Doctor .... Jonathan Keeble
The over-land expedition has reached Turkey, the land of Kismet, and gateway to the East.
It's just the place for Joan to discover romance and Trigger to catch up on all the kebabs he's missed since leaving Romford.
Simon .... David Haig Petra .... Michelle Chadwick Callum .... Forbes Masson Trigger .... Richard Ridings Joan .... Sarah Crowden Ellie .... Lolly Susi Joan's Lover .... Jonathan Keeble Callum .... Forbes Masson Guide .... Andrew Branch
The travellers have reached.....um, well, actually they're lost in the middle of Uzbekistan and the truck has broken down, again.
Simon .... David Haig Mechanic .... Peter Serafinowicz Petra .... Michelle Chadwick Callum .... Forbes Masson Trigger .... Richard Ridings Joan .... Sarah Crowden Ellie .... Lolly Susi
The lights of Kathmandu are twinkling on the horizon, the truck is in fine working order, and a haunch of goat is roasting on an open fire.
What can possibly go wrong for the epic travellers..?
Simon .... David Haig Petra .... Michelle Chadwick Callum .... Forbes Masson Trigger .... Richard Ridings Joan .... Sarah Crowden Ellie .... Lolly Susi Consul .... Derek Waring
Original broadcast BBC One Wales 5th May 2014. Rebroadcast BBC Four 9th November 2023.
A unique one-off television production of Dylan Thomas's famous 'play for voices' performed by a community of Welsh talent in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff and Laugharne. Michael Sheen opens as First Voice with Sir Tom Jones as Captain Cat, and as each of Thomas's iconic characters joins in, the piece builds up into a collage of famous voices and faces (including Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Siân Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Bryn Terfel and Katherine Jenkins) intercut with evocative imagery inspired by the play and created as part of a live event by National Theatre Wales.
Credits: Voice .... Michael Sheen Captain Cat .... Tom Jones New York Voice .... Matthew Rhys Laugharne Voice .... Aimee-Ffion Edwards Drowned and Willy Nilly .... Tom Rhys Harries Drowned and Voice .... Karl Johnson Drowned and Evans the Death .... Iwan Rheon Drowned and Voice .... Aneurin Barnard Rosie Probert .... Nia Roberts Mog Edwards .... Ioan Gruffudd Myfanwy Price .... Kimberley Nixon Mr Waldo .... Steffan Rhodri Neighbour .... Mark Lewis Jones Neighbour .... Richard Harrington Neighbour .... Sophie Evans Neighbour .... Melanie Walters Voice .... Griff Rhys Jones Voice .... John Rhys-Davies Voice .... Andrew Howard Voice .... Rakie Ayola Mr Pugh .... Jonathan Pryce Mrs Pugh .... Siân Phillips Rev Eli Jenkins .... Bryn Terfel Polly Garter .... Katherine Jenkins Mrs Ogmore Pritchard .... Charlotte Church Mr Ogmore .... Tom Ellis Mr Pritchard .... Aneirin Hughes Butcher Beynon .... Robert Pugh Mrs Beynon .... Suzanne Packer Lily Smalls .... Eve Myles Mae Rose Cottage .... Alexandra Roach Nogood Boyo .... Craig Roberts Mary Ann Sailors .... Sharon Morgan Dai Bread .... Owen Teale Mrs Dai Bread One .... Di Botcher Mrs Dai Bread Two .... Sian Thomas Sinbad Sailors .... Jon Tregenna
Writer: Dylan Thomas Director: Pip Broughton Executive Producer: Bethan Jones
Mark Chapman tells the inside story of one of Britain's oldest football clubs as it faces its most controversial season and a nail-biting fight against relegation
As the run of poor results continues, pressure on manager Frank Lampard grows and questions are asked about his future. Conor Coady finds himself defending for the club both on and off the pitch as he faces the media. Meanwhile, the club puts out a controversial statement and relationships with fans go from bad to worse. At the end of last season, loyal fans turned out to support the team as they arrived at Goodison Park, playing an important role in keeping the team in the Premier League. Are they prepared to do the same again?
Everton are mid-table in the Women's Super League. We're in the changing room as manager Brian Sorenson and the team prepare to face Reading.
It's January and Everton are in the bottom three of the Premier League. After more disappointing results, Frank Lampard's time runs out. Club Captain Seamus Coleman opens up about what it's like to lose yet another manager. We meet new gaffer Sean Dyche on his first day at Finch Farm. He's the club's eighth manager in seven years. Will he be the one to turn things around?
On Liverpool's waterfront, work progresses on Everton's new stadium. The club needs a home that's fit for a top flight football club. But the ambitious and expensive project comes with financial risks too.
With new manager Sean Dyche in charge, Everton start winning some much-needed points. We deep-dive into the gaffer's techniques with players Tom Davies and Seamus Coleman. Dyche opens up as he chats with his best friend on and off the pitch: assistant manager and lifelong Evertonian Ian Woan.
In the kitchen, Head chef Tom Kenton plans the week's meals, while performance nutritionist Lloyd Parker looks ahead to Ramadan with midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure and goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.
Sean Dyche prepares his team for one of the biggest fixtures in the club's calendar: the world-renowned Merseyside Derby, an event that awakens deep bonds and rivalries.
The women's team has a Derby too and this year it will be held at Goodison Park. Midfielder Megan Finnigan reflects on the game and the press attention she's received since the profile of women's football has risen.
The gaffer's honeymoon period seems to be over, as Everton struggle to win points and move up the table. Away from the pitch, there's bad news when it's alleged that the club has breached Financial Fair Play regulations. Fans continue to call for change at the top.
Injury has contributed to the club's difficulties this season, with star striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin playing in only 7 of Dyche's 18 games. Players Andros Townsend and Tom Davies reflect on their coping strategies for struggles with physical and mental health.
With just four weeks of the season to go, everyone inside Finch Farm, from the grounds-people to the kit manager, pull together. Will it be enough to save Everton from relegation? After a crucial penalty save against Leicester, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford takes us through how analytics play a role in his prep. While everyone waits for the final result, it's time for some goodbyes.
Mark Chapman reflects on the season with Director of Football Kevin Thelwell, who opens up about how personal this job is for him. This interview was recorded on June 8th 2023.
Giulia Bould reflects on the season with manager Sean Dyche and club captain Seamus Coleman. She then takes Mark Chapman behind the scenes of the production. These interviews were recorded in July 2023.
The story of Everton Football Club took a dramatic turn today when news dropped that they were to receive a ten-point deduction from the Premier League for breaching Profit & Sustainability Rules in 2022. This is the largest penalty given out in Premier League history. This bonus episode contains reaction to Everton's point deduction from Conor Coady and Leon Osman and is presented by Darren Fletcher. This was an episode of 5 Live's Football Daily broadcast on 17th Nov 2023.
It's been a dramatic 12 months for Sean Dyche since he took the Everton job. He saved the club from relegation on the final day of the 22/23 season, saw the Board leave, the death of Everton's longest serving Chairman in more than a century, two PSR breaches and a 10 point deduction. As he marks one year as "the Gaffer", Giulia Bould went to Finch Farm to catch up with Sean Dyche...
Dame Judi Dench reflects on her career playing Shakespearean roles on stage and screen across seven decades.
Judi Dench has spent her career bringing to life a hugely diverse array of characters. But she is, first and foremost, one of the greatest classical actors of our times. Her love of the work of William Shakespeare and the insight she has gained into his plays over the course of her career is explored in her new book The Man Who Pays The Rent, written with actor and director Brendan O'Hea.
In a special edition of This Cultural Life to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio in a BBC season of programmes celebrating Shakespeare, Dame Judi talks to John Wilson at her home in Surrey. With intimate insights into her relationship with the work of William Shakespeare, she recalls her pivotal experiences and influences that helped steer her career as one of Britain's greatest classical actors. After seeing her older brother act in a school production of Macbeth, she knew Shakespeare was for her. She remembers her very first professional stage role, playing Ophelia in an Old Vic production of Hamlet in 1957. Despite bad reviews and losing the role when the production went on tour, she was undeterred. Joining the RSC, she worked her way through many of Shakespeare's plays, including a landmark production of Macbeth in 1976, directed by Trevor Nunn. Dame Judi recalls her Olivier award-winning performance of Lady Macbeth opposite Ian McKellen, and her later role of Cleopatra opposite Anthony Hopkins in 1987 at the National Theatre. Remembering her last stage appearance in a Shakespeare play, she discusses her dual roles of Paulina and Time in A Winter's Tale, and how her degenerative eyesight condition affected her performance.
Werner Herzog is one of the most idiosyncratic, original and prolific filmmakers of modern times, having made nearly 80 films over six decades. His features include Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre Wrath of God and Rescue Dawn, and his documentaries include the multi award-winning Grizzly Man, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams and Into the Abyss. Werner Herzog productions are the stuff of cinema legend, with stories of audacious shoots in inaccessible locations. He's also written several books, including a newly published memoir called Every Man For Himself And God Against All.
Speaking to John Wilson from Los Angeles where he lives, Werner Herzog recalls his impoverished childhood in a remote Bavarian valley at the end of the Second World War. He says that, as a teenager, his discovery of a book about the Lascaux cave paintings was ‘like a bolt of lightning' to his creative imagination, and led to him making a documentary film about prehistoric cave art many years later. He describes how his films often start with a vivid or unusual image, and how he seeks to capture a sense of awe at the power of the natural world. Werner Herzog discusses the extremely arduous and dangerous conditions in which he made some of his best known films, including Fitzcarraldo and four other films starring the temperamentally volatile lead actor Klaus Kinski. Known for his deadpan, Bavarian-accented narration of his own documentary films, Herzog also reflects on how his distinctive voice has led to him being cast in menacing roles in Hollywood films, including Jack Reacher alongside Tom Cruise, and even a cameo in The Simpsons.
As part of the celebrations for Joni Mitchell's 80th birthday, this programme describes the legendary singer/songwriter's life and career - in her own words.
Over a singular career that has spanned many different cultural eras, Joni Mitchell has explored in public, to an almost unprecedented degree, exactly what it means to be female and free, in full acknowledgement of all its injustice and joy.
And there are two major physically and emotionally charged life changing events that defined Joni's artistic development and deeply influenced her creative output - a severe bout of polio as a child and an unwanted pregnancy as a teenager, which forced Joni to support her and her baby as a destitute single mother. Fearing her inability to cope, Joni gave the baby up for adoption.
The lessons learned from dealing with these traumas have shaped every personal and professional decision Joni has ever made, recalling them as transformative, character-building episodes that caused her to develop self-reliance and a slow, almost meditative way of being in the world.
With the same determination Joni used to prove to doctors that she would walk again, she set about proving that a woman could make it in the patriarchal world of folk music and very quickly blazed a trail as a fiercely independent spirt through one of the most exciting and influential periods in modern music, producing a catalogue of deeply influential albums.
As her success grew, so did her strength and, as we'll hear, Joni remains defiant and determined. She suffered a brain aneurism in 2015 and, summoning the same spirit that enabled her to survive polio and walk again as a child, Joni has been slowly re-building her life and recently played her first live concert in over 25 years.
Astronaut and artist Nicole Stott celebrates the scientific and cultural legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It's a mission that's influenced art, music and science-fiction.
Launched on 24 April 1990 and built to last 15 years, the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope was a disaster. Most serious among a catalogue of flaws was a fault with the primary mirror.
Fortunately, the telescope had always been designed to be serviced in space and, after one of the most challenging and complex space walks in history, scientists downloaded the first new Hubble images.
The results were astounding.
Every week, Hubble delivers 140 gigabytes of science data back to Earth, transforming our view and knowledge of the universe. But what NASA didn’t foresee when it launched the telescope was its cultural legacy. Images from Hubble have appeared on album covers, video games, in movies and on clothing and jewellery.
In sci-fi films and TV shows released before Hubble, space was black with scattered stars. Now, movies are alive with swirling colours.
Pictures from the space telescope can be found on t-shirts, leggings and on desktop screensavers in almost every office across the world. U2, Pearl Jam and the Royal Philharmonic have used Hubble images to inspire their music.
Featuring composer Eric Whitacre and one of the astronauts who launched Hubble, Kathy Sullivan.
Plus archive interviews with astronauts and a wealth of newly remastered NASA archive.
Hubble has changed how we think of ourselves and our place in the universe. The telescope has given humanity a sense of the vastness of the cosmos but, nevertheless, connected us to it like never before.
Producer: Richard Hollingham
A Boffin Media production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2020.
Winter, 1932: Douglas Jardine harbours the avowed intent of destroying 'those ruddy convicts'.
He was referring to the Australian cricket team and intended to destroy them with bat and ball, and particularly with his major weapon, Harold Larwood.
The tour became known as the Bodyline Tour - and Jardine's tactics earned him the hatred of every Australian.
Starring Michael Cochrane.
A sporting drama written by Christopher Douglas.
Douglas Jardine .... Michael Cochrane Gubby Allen .... Robert East Bob Wyatt .... Haydn Wood The Nawab of Pataudi .... Sam Dastor Harold Larwood .... Michael Kitchen Bill Voce .... David Threlfall Bill Bowes .... Peter Joyce Maurice Leyland .... John Church Pelham Warner .... Robert Lang Perrin .... Patrick Barr Higson .... John Bott Bill Woodfull .... Edmund Pegge Donald Bradman .... Christopher Blake Jack Fingleton .... Nick Tate Vic Richardson .... Damon Sanders Stan McCabe .... Peter Dahlsen Tim Wall .... Graham Faulkner Oxlade .... Philip Dunbar Jeanes .... Gordon Reid Jack Ryder .... Gordon Gostelow Allan Kippax .... Michael McStay Alf Noble .... Martin Friend Gaumont British News .... Christopher Douglas Arthur Carr .... Stephen Thorne Commander O'Sullivan .... Michael Spice George V .... Brian Haines
Narrated by Martin Freeman, the episode also features insight on the new track from Sean Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison and Peter Jackson.
In 1994, Yoko Ono gave Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr a selection of unfinished demo tapes recorded by John Lennon in the 1970s. Two of those songs, Free as a Bird and Real Love, were arranged and released on 1995's Beatles: Anthology project.
A third demo was never completed. At the time, the tape was deemed too muddy to work with. But, decades later, a new machine-assisted learning programme, pioneered by Get Back director Peter Jackson and his team, made Now and Then, the final Beatles single, possible – with each Beatle performing on the track.
Listen to the story of how it came about as Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and more reflect on the decades and discuss the making of the band's last song.
ERAS: THE BEATLES - 5. REINCARNATION (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins) BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 5th November 2023 If you're in the biggest band there ever was, how do you cope when it all comes crashing down? That's the question John, Paul, George and Ringo were asking themselves in the spring of 1970, when it was announced that The Beatles were breaking up for good.
In part five, Martin Freeman arrives at the end of an era - and the start of four more. In the aftermath of the split, bitter recriminations give way to new beginnings, and each individual Beatle embarks on a successful solo career. Rumours of a reunion swirl, before a senseless act of violence seems to draw a line under their story as a unit.
But a band like The Beatles never goes away - it lives forever in the people who love it... and this is a story that never really ends.
ERAS: THE BEATLES - 4. REVOLUTION (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins) BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 5th November 2023 When tragedy strikes at the end of 1967, the Beatles are faced with an uncertain future. In the months and years to come, cracks begin to show in the foundations of the world's most powerful musical unit. As each member matured and developed as artists, the end became inevitable.
In Part 4 of Eras: The Beatles, Martin Freeman explores the pressures that broke the biggest band on the planet, and the incredible music that this turbulent era produced.
From the high-minded psychedelia of Magical Mystery Tour to the drama of Let It Be, to the masterpiece that was Abbey Road, the BBC Archive team have scoured their collections to bring you the interviews that shine a light on a dark period for the Beatles.
No high lasts forever. And in 1966, the pressures of fame begin to weigh on the globetrotting lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
From a close-call with military police in the Philippines, to an all-out religious backlash in the United States, the band starts to question whether being a Beatle is quite so fab after all. Maybe it's time for something new. To become a different band entirely.
In Part 3 of Eras: The Beatles, Martin Freeman finds the band at a critical juncture in their story - the extraordinary decision to abandon the live shows that made their name, and embrace the potential of the recording studio with the groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Featuring illuminating archive from the band and their contemporaries, we'll follow the Beatles as they shape popular music for decades to come with the birth of the concept album.
It's 1964. British Beatlemania is in full swing. But this summer, the Fab Four are about to go global - and nothing can stand in their way. In Part 2 of Eras: The Beatles the band scales new heights as they enter the pop stratosphere on both sides of the Atlantic.
From silver-screen adventures to the invention of Stadium Rock, the BBC Archive team have scoured their collection for the interviews that put you right at the heart of those manic months on the road - including an exclusive find that hasn't been heard since it was first broadcast 60 years ago. Hear the story of the Fab Four's rise, fall and rebirth - and how they changed the world along the way, as narrated by Martin Freeman.
In Eras: The Beatles, Martin Freeman tells the story of the Fab Four's rise, fall and rebirth - and how they changed the world along the way. In the space of just 8 years, their journey took them from the smoky clubs of Hamburg and Liverpool, to Abbey Road and unprecedented global fame. And when their time together came to an end, each Beatle began anew - creating a body of work that's still growing today.
As the world welcomes Now and Then - the first new music from the Beatles since 1995 - hear a fresh retelling of a story with no real end in sight. In Episode 1, we meet the Beatles as they work their way to the brink of global superstardom - shaping their sound, honing their iconic look, and making the tough decisions that take them all the way to the top.
Featuring rare interviews from the BBC's treasure trove of Beatles material, sourced with a little help from our friends on the Archive team, Eras: The Beatles is an immersive celebration of the biggest band in history.
Whether you like or loathe elves and talking lions, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis each created compelling fictional worlds whose influence has become global.
CS Lewis was an academic and broadcaster whose prolific publication of literary criticism, novels, Christian apologia and the Narnia books for children brought him an international reputation in his lifetime.
By the time of his death in 1973, JRR Tolkien's 'The Lord of The Rings' and 'The Hobbit', (along with other published stories and poems which drew upon the mythology of Middle Earth), had already made him a cult figure around the world.
Starring Haydn Gwynne, Tom Goodman-Hill and Pip Torrens.
Robin Brooks' drama is a playful tribute to the long friendship between the two men, and the way it shaped their achievements.
Elf Queen ...... Haydn Gwynne JRR Tolkien ...... Tom Goodman-Hill CS Lewis ...... Pip Torrens Worm ...... Carolyn Pickles Betjeman ...... Harry Jardine Informator ...... John Norton Marcus ...... Arthur Hughes Tiny Elf Princess ...... Isabel Brooks
The Culture ship Arbitrary arrives on Earth in 1977 and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'property' and 'money' and on the edge of self-destruction.
When Agent Dervley Linter decides to go native, can Diziet Sma change his mind?
Sci-fi thriller novella written by Iain M Banks.
Dramatised by Paul Cornell.
The Ship ...... Antony Sher Diziet Sma ...... Nina Sosanya Dervley Linter ...... Paterson Joseph Li ...... Graeme Hawley Tel ...... Brigit Forsyth Sodel ...... Conrad Nelson
Jo Whiley presents this unique performance celebrating the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who from Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall. Featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and The BBC Singers conducted by Alastair King.
The music includes composer Murray Gold's best known Doctor Who themes including I Am The Doctor, The Long Song, Doomsday and Abigall's Song (Silence Is All You Know). The classic years of Doctor Who are also featured by the Radiophonic Workshop's Mark Ayres and Peter Howell as they hark back to the days of the Sea Devils, City of Death and The Five Doctors. And there are brand new works premiered including The Woman Who Fell To Earth, a full length suite composed by Segun Akinola and 3 of Murray Gold's new works. These are heard here for the very first time before making their debut in the new season of Doctor Who in 2024.
Plus Jo talks to the three Doctor Who showrunners of the modern era, Russell T. Davies, Chris Chibnall and Steven Moffat.
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - I Am The Doctor BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - All The Strange, Strange Creatures Radiophonic Workshop (Mark Ayres & Peter Howell) & BBC National Orchestra Of Wales - 'Classic' Doctor Who Medley BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers & Rebecca Lea - Abigail's Song (Silence Is All You Know) BBC National Orchestra Of Wales - This Is Gallifrey BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - The Rings Of Akhaten (The Long Song) BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - The Companions Suite BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - Doomsday BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - Vale Decem BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - A Good Man? BBC National Orchestra Of Wales - I Am A Good Man BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - Suite: The Woman Who Fell To Earth BBC National Orchestra Of Wales - The Life Of Sunday (Ruby's Theme) BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - Fifteen BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - The Shepherd's Boy BBC National Orchestra Of Wales & BBC Singers - Doctor Who Theme (2023 version)
A Metalheadz at 30 ICONS mix featuring a back to back set from legendary Metalheadz DJs Goldie and Doc Scott recorded live at the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
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