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BBC Radio 1 DJs Jaymo and Andy George

In New DJs We Trust, BBC Radio 1's showcase for the hottest new DJ talent and new dance music, gets a 9-10pm takeover slot from Monday to Thursday this week, featuring the new line-up for 2011. Listeners can expect a nightly party mixing together the full spectrum of new dance music from techno to bassline and everything in-between.

In control tonight are Jaymo and Andy George mixing up box fresh electro, future disco and house party beats.

The In New DJs We Trust takeover comes to a head on Friday 28 January when the whole Radio 1 dance family comes together for the second free January In New Music We Trust Live events taking place at Sheffield University's Student Union.

Presenters/Jaymo and Andy George, Producer/Tom Koenig for Somethin' Else Productions

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Vanessa Feltz wakes up early risers or very-late-to-bedders in her second week at the helm of the Early Breakfast Show.

Her show is crammed with 90 minutes of great music from across the decades as she takes listeners through a first look at the day's news, plus there's Pause For Thought at 5.45am.

Listeners can contact the show by emailing vfeltz@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter/Vanessa Feltz, Producer/Mark Hagen for the BBC

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This week, Duffy chooses her Tracks Of My Years.

There's the nation's favourite music quiz, Popmaster, and a track from the Album Of The Week and the Record Of The Week. There's also a sprinkling of traffic news throughout the show.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones for the BBC

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Paul Lamb And The Kingsnakes are in session tonight on Paul Jones. With their mix of blues, boogie and swing, and inducted into the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame, the band play tracks from their new album, Mind Games.

Plus there's new releases and classic R&B.

Presenter/Paul Jones, Producer/Paul Long for the BBC

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Roxy Music's lead singer Bryan Ferry

As January 2011 sees Roxy Music reform for a 40th anniversary tour, Pulp front man and BBC 6 Music presenter Jarvis Cocker celebrates the band and their music.

Evolving from the late-Sixties art-rock movement, Roxy Music epitomised fashion, glamour and innovative music. Through the Seventies and Eighties they released a string of ground-breaking albums, culminating with their 1982 classic Avalon. The Thrill Of It All hears from key band members, showcases their best-know songs and reflects on their impressive career.

Tonight's final programme visits the punk era and the re-grouping of Roxy Music in 1978. Their comeback album sounded more dance orientated, with a soul-pop sound that was markedly different from their earlier records. Manifesto confirmed their British popularity, and the single Dance Away charted worldwide. This brings the story up to date with the 40th anniversary tour celebrating their illustrious past.

The programme features new interviews with key band members Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and others.

This two-part series was originally broadcast on BBC 6 Music. Jarvis presents a weekly show, Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service, at 4pm on 6 Music.

Presenter/Jarvis Cocker, Producer/John Sugar for Sugar Productions

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"Some maintain his temper was very even, because he was always angry,"; so said composer Adolphe Adam about Luigi Cherubini. He's the same man Beethoven selected when asked to name the greatest composer in Europe – apart from himself.

Italian by birth and from a modest background, he was singled out early for his prodigious talent, and by 18 he was completing his studies with Giuseppe Sarti, one of the leading Italian opera composers of the day. Operatic commissions followed and, before long, he had won enough recognition to receive an invitation to become house composer at the King's Theatre in London's Haymarket.

It was then a short step to Paris, where Cherubini settled at the age of 25; he would remain there for the rest of his life, during which he came to bestride Parisian music like a colossus.

Donald Macleod investigates the life and work of the man often referred to as "an Italian composer writing German opera for a French audience". He begins by examining Cherubini's Italian roots with two early choral pieces written under Sarti's tutelage. Then listeners follow him to London, where he discovers that the title "house composer" really means "house composer of pasticcios" – operatic patchworks stitched together from well-known arias. His one original opera for London, Il Giulio Sabino, was not a success, but his first international success was just five years away. In 1791 Lodoïska was an instant smash and went on to play to sell-out houses throughout Europe before eventually crossing the Atlantic to New York in 1826.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow

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Period band the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment throw their focus forward to the late 19th century and works by three of the great late-romantic composers. Sarah Connolly is the soloist in Mahler's Songs Of A Wayfarer, Youthful Musings On Love And Nature, some of which he reworked into his First Symphony, while the Totenfeier, which follows it, became the opening movement of his Second Symphony.

Two preludes also feature: Wagner's lushly romantic prelude to his opera Parsifal and Liszt's poetically inspired tone poem, Les Preludes.

Sarah Connolly is the mezzo-soprano, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Brian Jackson

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Novelist Tracy Chevalier considers The Necklace

Five writers are invited to explore the meaning of clothes and accessories in a particular work of art, be it a story, novel, film, painting or song lyric. How the clothing resonates, the tale behind its depiction and whether the writer would wear the garment themselves are all considered. Suits and dresses, coats and jewels, and even rags, all feature in accounts by a variety of commentators

In the first episode, novelist Tracy Chevalier considers how a set of sparkling stones tease in Guy de Maupassant's famous story The Necklace.

On Tuesday, novelist Justin Cartwright thinks about corporate America and how it is vividly caught in the novel The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit.

On Wednesday, art critic Laura Cumming ponders a particular black dress, memorably painted by John Singer Sargent in the 1880s.

In episode four, film critic Peter Bradshaw tells listeners about two red coats worn with sadness and menace in the classic film Don't Look Now.

In Friday's final instalment, Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman recalls the words of Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne, and how they dressed a generation of young women.

Producer/Duncan Minshull

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Book Of The Week –
The Sun Hasn't Fallen From The Sky Ep 1/5

Monday 24 to Friday 28 January

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's memoir of a chaotic childhood in Glasgow in the late Sixties.

Seven-year-old Ailsa Dunn's Ma is prettier than all the other mothers and her Da is the most handsome man in the world. But then alcohol intrudes and unpredictability reigns, and when the man with the briefcase comes to call she senses the family is in trouble.

Reader/Maureen Beattie, Producer/Jane Marshall for Jane Marshall Productions

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Woman's Hour Drama – Writing The Century Ep 1/5

Monday 24 to Friday 28 January

10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4

The series which explores the lives of real people through their diaries and correspondence now enters the final decade of the 20th century.

Catherine Thackray faces a terminal illness. She wants to put her life in order and to create a family history for own grandchildren. In so doing, she takes up her mother Marjory's memoir, and weaves it into her story.

During the week's episodes listeners meet Marjory Sharpe – the grandmother; Catherine Thackray – the daughter; and are introduced to Rebecca Thackray – the granddaughter, poised, on Millennium night, to take that tradition into a third generation.

In re-visiting the past key events in both lives, the five episodes give a snapshot of the 20th century. Catherine's ongoing diaries between 1993 and 2000 chart the Yugoslav war; Maxwell's death; Rwanda; the Chinook Enquiry; Dunblane; the IRA; Blair's election; and Princess Diana's state funeral.

The cast stars Eleanor Bron as Catherine Thackray; Will Tacey as Lawrence Thackray; Julia Rounthwaite as Becca Thackray; Suzanne Bertish as Marjory Sharp; Drew Carter-Cain as Tom Sharp; and Lloyd Peters as Doctor. It is dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal and the music is by Nicolai Abrahamsen.

Producer/Gary Brown for the BBC

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Iain Macwhirter explores why Glasgow suffers from higher mortality rates than expected from the levels of deprivation in the city.

Having suffered from heart disease, and had consultants shrug their shoulders and declare it was a result of being Scottish, Iain wants to know whether his health has been impacted by this effect.

Glasgow has been overtaken in the health stakes by Eastern European cities struggling to shrug off the legacy of communism. It is being left behind by the statistics from Liverpool and Manchester, which show, like-for-like, Glasgow's citizens are dying younger, whatever their wealth. In this programme, Iain investigates why this might be.

Presenter/Iain Macwhirter, Producer/Lucy Lloyd for the BBC

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Afternoon Play – Market Ep 1/6

Monday 24 January

2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Market is a series of six plays about people who work in and around market stalls in a northern city. Each story is a self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a whiff of the fantastical about them.

The first story is Loco Parentis by Gary Brown.

Jim cannot sleep because his daughter has left for university, his business is going belly up and his father is going gaga. Oh, and to top it all he suspects his wife is having an affair with her boss. He needs to escape, but where to?

The cast stars Reece Dinsdale as Jim; Gerard Fletcher as Market Manager; Bobby Knutt as Ken; Sue Kelly as Lisa; Kathryn Hunt as Robin; Ellie Meigan-Rose as Jenny; Joncie Elmore as Steve; Szilvi Naray Davey as Nurse; and Sam Hevicon as Student. The original music is by Steven D Reid.

Producer/Peter Leslie Ward for the BBC

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Critic and writer David Thomson

Critic and writer David Thomson continues his journey through cinema and its relationship with violence, romance, happy endings and flight for BBC Radio 4's film season.

Monday's programme, If It Moves, Shoot It, explores cinema and violence.

In Tuesday's programme, The Look Of Love, David continues his personal journey through the power and meaning of cinema in search of longing and romance.

On Wednesday, David looks at Happy Endings and cinema's powerful allure by offering a world of escape, happiness over the rainbow and the reassurance that everything is going to be all right in the end.

The Last Flight, Thursday's programme, explores how film and flight have been intertwined for decades.

In the final programme of the series, David considers what the future holds for cinema under the relentless spread of visual media, and in the age of instant delivery.

Presenter/David Thomson, Producer/Mark Burman for the BBC

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Book At Bedtime – The Meeting Point Ep 1/10

Monday 24 to Friday 28 January

10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4

When Euan and Ruth Armstrong set off with their young daughter, Anna, to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish.

But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. She starts to question her faith – in Euan, in their marriage, and in all she has held dear.

With Euan so often away, Ruth is confined to their guarded compound with her neighbours and, in particular, Noor, a troubled teenager recently returned to Bahrain to live with her father. Confronted by temptations and doubt, both Ruth and Noor must make choices that could change all of their lives for ever.

The Meeting Point is Lucy Caldwell's second novel. It was abridged by Doreen Estall and the readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige.

Readers/Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige, Producer/Heather Larmour for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Monday 24 January

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Chapman presents football debate, build-up to tonight's football action and the day's sports news in The Monday Night Club.

From 8pm there's live Premier League commentary of Bolton Wanderers at home against Chelsea.

In The Final Whistle at 10pm there is post-match reaction to Chelsea's visit to Bolton.

Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tennis

Monday 24 January

8.30am-2.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary comes from the night session at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Bafta-nominated comedian Nick Helm drops by to tell Shaun Keaveny about his new stand-up show, Keep Hold Of The Gold, which promises to be a display of bravura, chutzpah and positive thinking, with laughs and some poetry.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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Ghost Poet joins Nemone in the studio.

A rapper from Coventry who has already has been compared to Roots Manuva and supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson and NME, Ghost Poet's debut album, Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy, to be released in 2011, showcases his ramshackle but hook-laden productions.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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