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Graham Norton

Saturday 2 October

10.00am-1.00pm ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ RADIO 2

Graham Norton joins ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 2

Graham Norton joins ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 2 with his own show every Saturday morning – a vibrant mix of music and celebrity conversation. Saturdays will never be the same again...

Bob Shennan, Controller, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 2 and ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ 6 Music says: "Graham Norton is one of the nation's favourite entertainment presenters and I'm hugely excited to welcome him to his new permanent home on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 2. Our Saturday daytime schedule will kick off with Zoe Ball at 6am, into one of the most listened to shows on UK radio, Sounds Of The Sixties presented by Brian Matthew, leading into Graham Norton, Dale Winton, Dermot O'Leary, Alan Carr, Paul Gambaccini and Steve Lamacq. This rare combination of diverse talent is what makes Radio 2 the much-loved network that it is today."

Graham, who can't wait to get started, says: "I'm thrilled to be a part of it. My liver is also delighted that I'll now have an excuse to leave the pub early on a Friday night."

Our favourite agony uncle is joined by Maria McErlane for Grill Graham, where listeners' problems are solved in front of the nation. I Can't Believe It's Not Better revisits some of the worst songs ever to hit the British charts. And Graham invites listeners to submit their favourite Tune With A Tale, where one listener chats to Mr Norton about their personal interpretation of a familiar song.

There's also travel with Bobbie Pryor, sport with Alistair Bruce-Ball and the best celebrity guests. Listeners can email the show at graham.norton@bbc.co.uk.

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Dermot O'Leary has live sessions from Athlete and The Saw Doctors in this week's show.

Athlete's album, Singles 01-10, is a collection of the band's singles to date and was released last month. For Dermot's show they play previously unreleased song Back Track and one of their hits.

Also performing are Irish rockers The Saw Doctors who released their seventh studio album, The Further Adventures Of ... The Saw Doctors, last month.

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The penultimate episode of Welsh stand-up Rhod Gilbert's new audience comedy show features live music from Divine Comedy, including the hit National Express.

This week's guest comedian is Shappi Khorsandi and there are also comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a look at the Fifth Stage Of Woman – the hoarder.

Listeners find out whether animals can have human faces; what annoys Rhod about considerate builders; and the most surprising location for a postage stamp.

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Catherine Bott introduces a concert from the York Early Music Festival 2010

Catherine Bott introduces a concert from the York Early Music Festival 2010 , given by trio London Baroque, of 18th-century French music by Rameau, Leclair, Mondonville, the Forquerays and their contemporaries. The concert is described as "Marriage à la Mode" and, true to the theme of this year's festival, "musical marriages", all the pieces performed celebrate the familial ties that linked so many of Paris's major baroque composers.

Catherine Bott talks to the London Baroque's viol player, Charles Medlan, about the programme and the music.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Chris Wines

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Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi introduce a recital by Indian santoor virtuoso Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, accompanied by Anindo Chatterjee on tabla, recorded earlier this year at the Darbar Festival in London.

This is the last of three programmes from the 2010 Darbar Festival, which took place over the Easter weekend at Kings Place in London.

Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is a revered maestro of Indian classical music. The santoor is a hammered dulcimer which was originally a Kashmiri folk instrument – it was Shiv Kumar Sharma who reinvented it as an instrument suitable for playing Indian ragas, adding strings and developing a new delicate but powerful style of playing.

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Christopher Cook is at the Wales Millennium Centre for the much-anticipated debut of baritone Simon Keenleyside in the title role of Verdi's famously controversial tragedy, Rigoletto.

Welsh National Opera's revived production brings together director James McDonald and designer Robert Innes Hopkins to transport Verdi's Mantua to the Washington DC of the Kennedy era. It's a chance for the famously physical Keenleyside to recreate his court jester role as presidential aide, swimming in a pool of corruption, bullying and grotesque indulgence.

Also featured are American soprano Sarah Coburn, making her UK debut, and a return to WNO by much-loved Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, in the role of the philandering and murderous Duke.

Rigoletto is sung by Simon Keenlyside (baritone); The Duke by Gwyn Hughes Jones (tenor); Gilda by Sarah Coburn (soprano); Monterone by Michael Druiett (baritone); Sparafucile by David Soar (bass); and Maddalena by Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano).

The Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera is conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.

Presenter/Christopher Cook, Producer/Michael Surcombe

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This shape-shifting, existential comedy nightmare about the modern world is written by Martin Jameson.

This is a world of mass communication and yet people communicate less than ever. Toby has a bad day at work on the phones for Careless – the household cover people.

When an angry customer pushes Toby too far, he snaps and tells him to have a heart attack and die. The next morning, he wakes up as Dr Richard Jugg and the following day as a homeless person called Deke.

How are these events connected? And when will this nightmarish journey end?

Toby, Richard, Deke and Clive are played by Jonathan Keeble; Craig and Scott by Andonis James Anthony; Tariq and Naz by Armand Beasley; Sheila by Sue Jenkins, Anastasia and Nurse Phoenix by Melissa Jane Sinden; and Stacey and Renata by Catherine Kinsella.

Producer/Gary Brown

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In 1941, Orson Welles's Citizen Kane picked up nine Oscar nominations and was already being spoken of as a work of genius. But there were powerful forces lobbying hard against it, not least among them William Randolph Hearst, the media mogul on whom the story is based, and FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover.

As the Oscar nominations are announced, Welles suffers an uncharacteristic attack of anxiety. And – not without cause – FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover has tasked a small-time FBI agent, special agent RB Wood, with making sure the film doesn't triumph at the Oscars ceremony. Hearst has banned any mention of the film across his media empire, RKO the distributor is looking shaky, and while the movie plays to capacity houses in art-house cinemas, no major theatres or cinema chains will take it. A chance encounter in an elevator leads to a highly charged head-to-head between Hearst and Welles – when the two men lay their cards on the table.

Only the character of agent Wood is imagined, although he is based on a documented but shadowy figure mentioned in the FBI archives. And it is Wood who finally confronts Welles with the uncomfortable truth about the film – in hijacking Hearst's life for Citizen Kane, Welles has replaced it with his own.

The Kane Conspiracy is written by Jonathan Holloway and stars Jeff Harding as Orson Welles; Toby Jones as J Edgar Hoover; John Guerrasio as Herman Mankiewicz; Peter Marinker as William Randolph Hearst; Garrick Hagon as George Schaefer; Val Jobara as Agent Wood; and Paul Mundell as the Radio Interviewer.

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David Davis MP delves into the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ sound archive to explore the history of the working-class Tories – from the Victorian trade union leader who stood as a Tory candidate, to Norman Tebbit in the Eighties, and on to the present day.

Ever since British mass democracy began, the working-class vote has played a crucial part in returning the Conservative Party to power. And yet, for many years, there was barely a handful of working-class Conservative MPs in Parliament.

But the rise of the working-class Tory culminated by the Eighties with the central presence in the Thatcher Cabinet of Norman Tebbit.

Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major all came from "humble" backgrounds, in stark contrast to their aristocratic predecessors.

David Davis questions where the working-class Tory is today. On the one hand, Britain appears to some a much less hierarchical society but, on the other, it has its first Etonian Tory PM in almost half a century.

David Davis is a Tory from a working-class background – and is the man Cameron beat in 2005 for the Party leadership. In this programme, he talks to former and current working-class Tory cabinet ministers including Lord Tebbit and Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

He discovers why, in Oldham in 1899, one of Britain's toughest trade union leaders ran alongside Winston Churchill as a Tory candidate.

He explores how the Depression shaped the politics of future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, many of whose Geordie voters were working class.

And he asks Norman Tebbit, Eric Pickles, election expert John Curtice and former Tony Blair speechwriter Philip Collins, who comes from a family of working-class Tories, what part they think this durable tribe now plays in Cameron's Britain.

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5 Live Sport – Ryder Cup

Saturday 2 October

6.00-9.00am ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ RADIO 5 LIVE

Nicky Campbell presents live from Celtic Manor as day two of the Ryder Cup gets under way.

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5 Live Sport – The Ryder Cup

Saturday 2 October

9.00am-6.30pm ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale presents day two of the Ryder Cup, plus build-up to the afternoon's big matches in the Premier League, including Sunderland versus Manchester United.

Commentary on the day's golf action comes from Iain Carter, John Murray, Andrew Cotter, Clare Balding and Alistair Bruce-Ball, alongside former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher and Ryder Cup players Oliver Wilson and Andrew Coltart, plus Maureen Madill, Andrew Magee and Chris Evans.

Throughout the afternoon, there are updates from the afternoon's Premier League games, including Sunderland versus Manchester United, Birmingham versus Everton, Tottenham versus Aston Villa, and the rest of today's 3pm kick-offs. There is also news of the day's rugby and racing action.

From 5pm, Sports Report provides coverage from the close of play on day two of the Ryder Cup, plus results and reaction from the afternoon's Premier and Football League action and the classified results, read by James Alexander Gordon.

Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan

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Football

Saturday 2 October

2.45-5.00pm ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy commentary on a top game in the Championship, plus updates and reports from across the Football League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Rugby League

Saturday 2 October

5.45-8.00pm ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary comes from the Super League's Grand Final, live, from Old Trafford.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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The Velvelettes are special guests on The Craig Charles Funk And Soul Show.

The Velvelettes were a Sixties all-girl singing group signed to Motown Records. Their big hits were Needle In A Haystack and He Was Really Saying Something (later covered by Bananaraman and Fun Boy Three).

Unfortunately, Motown didn't invest as much time in the group as they already had The Supremes and Martha And The Vandellas.

Craig Charles catches up with Bertha Barbee McNeal to talk about being in the group and working with a young Stevie Wonder.

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In this edition of World Book Club, Barbara Kingsolver talks to Harriett Gilbert about her international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.

Hailed as her most ambitious novel to date, Kingsolver paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos.

Presenter/Harriett Gilbert

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