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Jazz-pop singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum showcases his love for all types of jazz on BBC Radio 2

Jamie Cullum showcases his love for all types of jazz, and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future.

This week, one of Jamie's favourite artists, legendary American jazz-blues pianist Mose Allison, looks back over his career in music and talks about his varying influences while sharing anecdotes from his time in the business.

Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, The Yardbirds, The Who and Georgie Fame have all cited Mose Allison as a major influence on their work. Allison responds to their interpretations of his music as well as telling the story behind his famous tune The Seventh Son.

Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing

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Nina Simone's daughter, Simone, explores the career of her mother as an unsung pioneer of civil rights, a jazz chanteuse, a blues artist and a live performer, sharing her personal thoughts and providing a glimpse of the real woman behind the distinctive voice.

Featuring unreleased concert tracks and contributions from some of Nina's closest friends, Simone explores her mother's musical style and what she was like as a live performer in part two of the documentary.

Taking her stage name from French actress Simone Signoret, Nina's performing career began as a singer-pianist in Atlantic City. A commanding, if sometimes difficult, performer, Nina often displayed an irrational temper but her shows were always an experience. Friends explain that this was due to her being bi-polar, a condition she refused to accept that she had.

A fluke UK hit of My Baby Just Cares For Me, a resurrected Fifties master, pushed the singer into the commercial spotlight when it reached No. 5 in the charts in 1987 thanks to its use in a Chanel No. 5 commercial. She also gave a series of mesmerising performances at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London during this decade. She recorded the classic album Baltimore, and her last album, A Single Woman, was released in 1993. Elektra's A&R man Michael Alago talks about how he signed Nina and got her to record again.

Her musical style can only be described as fearless; she refused to be categorised and sang soul, jazz, blues, gospel and Broadway tunes – often over the course of the same album or concert – and always her skills at the piano leaned towards her classical training. An uncompromising personality, Nina Simone was one of popular music's great divas.

Contributors include Nina's high school friend Hannah Ferguson; her niece, Joyce Stroud; her close friend Verta Mae Grosvenor; concert promoter Ron Delsener; her drummer for 18 years, Paul Robinson; and singer Patti Smith.

Presenter/Simone, Producers/Vicki Wickham and Sue Clark for Sue Clark Productions

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Suzy Klein presents the BBC Concert Orchestra and Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth, who are joined by pianist John Lill at LSO St Luke's in London to play one of Mozart's best-loved piano concertos and two symphonies: the short one-movement No. 32 and the effervescent No. 29 in A.

Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Neil Varley

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Sean Rafferty presents a selection of Mozartian music and guests, including clarinettist Sarah Williamson and violinist Rachel Podger.

Presenter/Sean Rafferty, Producer/Peter Meanwell

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At John La Rose's kitchen table, Burt Caesar "limes" [hangs out] with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Margaret Busby and others, to assess the legacy of the founder of Britain's first black publishing house.

In 1966, the late John La Rose founded New Beacon Books. At first selling Caribbean and African literature from his north London home, he then himself began publishing, becoming the first black publishing house in Britain.

La Rose's whole life was one of activism and political and cultural involvement. He was a trade unionist in Trinidad; in the mid-Fifties he co-authored, with Raymond Quevedo (Atilla the Hun), an early study of calypso; he co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement with poets Andrew Salkey and Kamau Brathwaite; he was chairman of the Institute of Race Relations; he became involved in the Black Education Movement; and he founded the George Padmore Supplementary School for West Indian children in 1969. He was also Chair of the committee that mobilised 20,000 people to march in protest through London after the arson attack in New Cross in 1981 in which 13 young black people died.

Poets, novelists, theologians, campaigners, sculptors and musicians all gathered around the kitchen table of this erudite and generous man, liming and planning campaigns.

Burt Caesar, who was himself influenced by John La Rose, joins his partner Sarah White and old friends, poet and musician Linton Kwesi Johnson; Margaret Busby, founder of Britain's second black publishing house; Trinidadian scholar Susan Craig-Jones; and Professor Gus John, who became the first black Director of Education in the country in the Eighties. They all gather to tell listeners his story, and consider the legacy of John La Rose.

Presenter/Burt Caesar, Producer/Julian May for the BBC

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Barry Cryer nods to his Yorkshire roots in choosing JB Priestley, author of The Good Companions and An Inspector Calls, as the biographical series continues.

Barry knew JB for the last 10 years of his life, and fondly recalls visiting him with two members of the Monty Python team. Other memories include a trip to the Café Royal, and thoughts on Priestley's notorious love of women. Martin Wainwright, northern editor of the Guardian, also brings to life a prolific writer nearly killed in the First World War. Some say he wrote so much to avoid the memories of that war.

Recorded in front of an audience at the Arnolfini in Bristol, the programme includes colourful clips of JB Priestley and also Priestley's son, Tom.

Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Miles Warde for the BBC

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Rufus Hound invites Meera Syal to choose embarrassing extracts from her teenage diary and read them out in public for the very first time.

Presenter/Rufus Hound, Producer/Victoria Payne for Talkback Productions

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Winifred Robinson explores how children who offend are treated and how far one reconciles the demands for justice with hopes that their lives can be rehabilitated.

With unique access to the police cells in Hull, Winifred charts what happens from the moment of arrest and examines how demands for justice are reconciled with the need to protect society by changing offending behaviour.

The two young brothers who beat and tortured another pair of boys in Doncaster raised concerns about what happens longer term to those who offend at a very young age. These concerns have been heightened by the recent re-arrest of Jon Venables and the case of Learco Chindamo, who was re-arrested just four months after serving his sentence for the murder of headmaster Philip Lawrence.

The Coalition government has agreed plans to drastically cut the prison population through community penalties overseen by charities and the private sector. To assess how changes will affect young offenders, Winifred examines restorative justice schemes and initiatives including the one undertaken in Hull, where youth justice workers maintain a round-the-clock presence in the custody suite.

The programme follows access granted for earlier documentary programmes in some of the country's secure children's units. Winifred follows up youngsters released from these "child prisons" and examines what more could be done in terms of preventing reoffending.

Presenter/Winifred Robinson, Producer/Susan Mitchell for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 11 January

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Chapman presents the day's sports news and build-up to tonight's live football action.

From 7.45pm there's commentary on the League Cup semi-final first leg as West Ham United meet Birmingham City at Upton Park.

At 9.40pm The Final Whistle delivers post-match reaction to the tie.

Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr

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BBC 6 Music presenter Nemone

Former Soft Cell front man Marc Almond shares the songs that have inspired his songwriting. Tracks come from the likes of T-Rex, Lou Reed, Midlake, The Sweet, Patrick Wolf and David Bowie.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Gideon Coe's archive concert gems come from Stereolab at Reading in 1996 and Rory Gallagher at the Paris Theatre in 1978. Session tracks include archive from Anrhefn, Kaito and Suicide.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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