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Graham Norton's own show every Saturday morning is a vibrant mix of music and celebrity conversation. The nation's favourite agony uncle is joined by the "Postmistress of Pain", Maria McErlane, for Grill Graham as they offer advice to listeners' problems, live on air.

I Can't Believe It's Not Better revisits some of the worst songs ever to hit the charts and Graham invites listeners to submit their favourite Tune With A Tale.

Plus there's travel with Bobbie Pryor, sport with Alistair Bruce-Ball and the very best showbiz guests. Listeners can email the show anytime: graham.norton@bbc.co.uk.

Presenter/Graham Norton, Producer/Malcolm Prince for the BBC

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In this week's show, Dermot O'Leary has Saturday Sessions from the Grammy and Brit Award-winning singer-songwriter Adele, and Liverpudlian indie trio The Wombats.

He also chats to actor Anthony Head, famous for playing roles in BBC One drama Merlin and worldwide hit series Buffy The Vampire Slayer (not to mention those iconic coffee ads).

Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker for Ora et Labora TV

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Jimmy Carr hosts six comedy master classes

Jimmy Carr hosts the second of six comedy master classes in which he discusses his passion for all aspects of comedy and plays some of his favourite comedy clips.

Tonight, he takes a look at the theory of jokes and plays clips from the likes of Les Dawson on being healthy; Lee Evans on forgetting stuff; Frankie Howerd on a memorable visit to the doctor's; and Michael McIntyre on relieving himself in the sea. All these clips and more are supplemented by Jimmy's witty and anarchic take on the world of comedy.

Presenter/Jimmy Carr, Producer/Paul Russell for the BBC

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Playing in session for Bob Harris tonight, after 1am, are Two Fingers Of Firewater. They have been described by the press as part Flying Burrito Brothers, part Pogues, and part Jack White, as well as "authentically American" – not bad going for a band from Godalming in Surrey...

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson for the BBC

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Petroc Trelawny talks to young French conducting star Yannick Nézet-Séguin about his burgeoning career and also discusses the different challenges of directing both opera and film with Mike Figgis as he makes his directorial operatic debut at English National Opera.

He also examines the brilliant playing and troubled life of Sviatoslav Richter as a new biography of the legendary Russian pianist is published.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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BBC Radio 3 presenter Catherine Bott

Catherine Bott introduces highlights of the London debut concert by Apollo's Fire, from the Wigmore Hall.

The Cleveland-based ensemble is directed by its founder, harpsichordist Jeanette Sorrell, and is joined in this concert by soprano Sophie Daneman. Repertoire from the concert includes vocal and instrumental works by Vivaldi, Handel and Rameau.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Rebecca Bean

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Opera On 3 – Live From The Met

Saturday 22 January

6.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Giovanni Meoni stars in the title role in Verdi's Rigoletto

This year's New York Metropolitan Opera season continues with Verdi's Rigoletto, based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse.

The Duke of Mantua's hunchbacked jester Rigoletto has raised his daughter Gilda in seclusion from the world. When Count Monterone's daughter is seduced by the Duke, Rigoletto mocks him, causing Monterone to curse him. Then Gilda is also seduced by the Duke, and the curse begins to take terrible effect.

Paolo Arrivabeni conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera. The cast features Giovanni Meoni (baritone), Nino Machaidze (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Stefan Kocán (bass), Kirstin Chávez (contralto), Kathryn Day (mezzo-soprano), David Crawford (bass), Edyta Kulczak (mezzo-soprano), Eduardo Valdes (tenor), Quinn Kelsey (baritone), Malcolm MacKenzie (baritone), Joseph Pariso (bass) and Patricia Steiner (mezzo-soprano).

Presenter/Margaret Juntwait, Producer/Ellie Mant

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There were times last autumn when it was hard to remember that the situation at the San Jose copper mine in Chile, where 33 men awaited rescue, was reality rather than reality TV. At times the media circus that descended on the Atacama Desert almost created the atmosphere of a game show. Yet the mine disaster in New Zealand that followed shortly afterwards, with its tragic outcome, disappeared swiftly from the front pages and TV headlines of the world.

This fascination in the media with mining disasters is nothing new. Seventy five years ago, 100 million people were held spellbound as a broadcaster working for the Canadian Broadcasting Commission relayed the latest news – live to 650 radio stations across North America and Europe – from Moose River Mine where two men were trapped. It put radio on the map as a transmitter of news and the tale of the two men's horrifying situation gripped those listeners.

The fear, and the exploitation of the fear of being trapped underground – from real life to the stories of Edgar Allen Poe – is reflected here, using sounds, media archive, miners themselves and the words of the mining poet and blogger Mark Nowak.

Producer/Sara Jane Hall

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Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce the second of five programmes of highlights from the 2010 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival which took place last November.

Tonight's programme focuses heavily on the theatre, with performance art from Trond Reinholdsten, a concert of duos and quartets for dancers and musicians, and music from composers Jennifer Walshe and Tom Johnson alongside a performance of Mauricio Kagel's Pastorale kantrimiusik given by the Nieuw Ensemble.

Presenters/Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch

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Jonathan Myerson's play, Payback, explores the pressures on US diplomacy in the 1973 Middle East War.

The play traces the first 10 days of the 1973 October War, when surprise conflict in the Middle East coincided at the White House with tensions over Watergate.

Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are massing on Israel's borders, but despite 11 warnings of impending war in the past month, the Israeli cabinet have not called up the reserve.

In Florida, Richard Nixon awaits the final verdict of the Washington Appeal court on his objections to surrendering the Watergate Tapes.

In New York, Henry Kissinger is about to be woken at his room in the Waldorf Astoria with news of a new Middle East War.

Jonathan Myerson's play investigates how domestic and international politics were about to combine, to change the Middle East for ever.

Producer/Jonquil Panting for the BBC

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Film critic Barry Norman explores cinema-going over the last century

Barry Norman continues his exploration into the changing experience of cinema-going over the last century as part of BBC Radio 4's film season.

Barry charts the rise from the Seventies low ebb to innovations being introduced today.

In the Seventies ticket sales had fallen to an all-time low. In conversation with Sir David Puttnam, Barry recalls his own pessimism about the future of cinema at the time. Moving onto the Eighties, he explores the impact on Britain of an American import, the multiplex. He then moves on to the challenge of videos and DVDs in the Nineties and is ultimately surprised to find how positive the picture now looks, as British cinemas embrace 3D and other innovations and attendance figures continue to rise.

Featuring never-before-broadcast archive, this series charts the changing experience of cinema-going in Britain over the last century.

Presenter/Barry Norman, Producer/Beaty Rubens for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 22 January

12.00noon-6.06pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch looks ahead to a packed afternoon of football action.

From 12.45pm, there's live Premier League commentary from Molineux of Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Liverpool (12.45pm kick-off).

Then there is live coverage of all the 3pm kick offs including Manchester United versus Birmingham and Arsenal against Wigan Athletic.

Sports Report at 5pm has post-match reaction and interviews, plus Premier League updates from Aston Villa versus Manchester City from 5.30pm.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tennis

Saturday 22 January

8.00am-1.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Football

Saturday 22 January

2.55-5.15pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy commentary on a leading game in the Championship, plus score updates from across the Football League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Cricket

Saturday 22 January

3.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the third One Day International between Australia and England, comes live from Sydney.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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