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BBC Radio 1's showcase for the hottest new DJ talent and new dance music gets a 9-10pm takeover slot throughout the 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 is Dutch house supremo Chuckie a new addition to the INDWT line-up for 2011. "The King of Dirty Dutch" from Holland includes listeners in a relentless hour of house beats all wrapped in his distinctive sound.

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

Presenter/Chuckie, Producer/Tom Koenig for Somethin' Else Productions

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BBC Radio 2 In Concert

Thursday 27 January

8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2

Legendary welsh band the Manic Street Preachers

Jo Whiley presents a special show featuring a homecoming gig from the Manic Street Preachers, live, from the Blackwood Miners Institute in Newport, Wales.

This is the first time in over 25 years that the Manics have played in their home town of Blackwood. Introduced on stage by Jo, the band performs some of their classic hits and songs from their latest album, Postcards From A Young Man, in front of an audience of BBC Radio 2 listeners.

As well as hearing the concert on Radio 2, listeners can watch it streamed, live, online and highlights are available on the BBC Red Button. There are also highlights from earlier in the day when the Manics show Jo some of the sights of Blackwood. Reminiscing about their early years, the band also talk about their approach to songwriting in a special acoustic session as part of Radio 2's Great British Songbook.

Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire is looking forward to playing at the Miners Institute: "I don't think we have done a gig there in the little theatre since 1987, my misspent Jimmy White-esque years! The one and only gig we did there turned into a full-scale riot when we went there, and the piano was smashed, I think, which we felt really bad about."

Talking about where the band will be visiting in Blackwood Nicky says: "Maybe Pen-y-fan Pond, where we used to go and pretend we were the beat generation and read poetry to each other; [and] my dad's shed, where we used to practice. You wouldn't believe how we did practice in there because it is so small! It's amazing to see actually."

BBC Introducing band, Denuo, feature as this week's support act. Described by BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens as playing "assured acoustic indie rock with a nod towards the kind of minor key melancholy as peddled by Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith", Denuo is Tom Mason with producer/engineer Russell Hayes. Currently based in Cardiff, Tom made his debut in the city, performing at SWN Festival in October 2009.

They perform two songs, live, from the Deep Navigation Bar at the Blackwood Miners Institute. Jo also rounds up all the live music on BBC Radio 2 over the past week and brings listeners the latest ticket news for up-and-coming tours in the Gig Guide. Listeners can contact Jo by emailing inconcert@bbc.co.uk.

Listeners can turn over to digital station BBC 6 Music at 10pm to hear Manic Street Preachers play the encore to this very special gig.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Radio 2 Live Music for the BBC

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The London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor Valery Gergiev's passion for the music of his homeland is in evidence in this all-Russian programme of music, written 100 years apart.

Tchaikovsky wrote his First Symphony in 1866, it is the composer's earliest notable work and is a piece he remained fond of, later claiming it had more substance than many of his more mature works.

Shostakovich wrote his Second Violin Concerto in the spring of 1967 for the veteran violinist David Oistrakh and the role is taken tonight by the young Armenian Sergei Khachatryan whose performances of the composer's works have gained rave reviews.

Valery Gergiev conducts: Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op 129; and Tchaikovksy's Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Winter Daydreams.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Brian Jackson

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Andy Kershaw goes in search of music from all over the planet

For this major series to accompany BBC One's Human Planet, Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran go in search of music from some of the world's remotest, as well as some more familiar, locations – visiting many of the places featured in TV series Music Planet.

In Greenland, Lucy greets the New Year with music and hears the mighty voice of Greenland's greatest singer, Rasmus Lyberth.

In Norway, Andy goes reindeer-herding under the midnight sun with Human Planet's May Torril, who also happens to be an accomplished singer in the Sami tradition of yoiking.

In Canada, Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq introduces listeners to her village in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and sings the intensely soulful music of the western Inuit.

And in Siberia, Andy meets musicians from Yakutsk, the coldest city on Earth, where long winter nights are whiled away with the help of a Jew's harp.

Presenters/Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran, Producers/Roger Short and James Parkin

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This Afternoon Play is inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose eight-year-old son testified against her for witchcraft in St Osyth, Essex, in 1582.

Jean Bodin, a French aristocrat, brings news to Queen Elizabeth of witches in her country. The luminaries of her court and those who want to find favour set out to root out witches within their wards. Brian Darcy, Justice of the Peace in St Osyth, arrives in the town of his birth. He is here to do his duty, and at church on Sunday he watches the women of the town with a sharp eye.

Some days later, Grace Thurlowe arrives in his drawing room with the news he is hoping for. Ursula Kemp, a local apothecary, has bewitched Grace's family. She sent familiars into Grace's house to rock the cradle where her 10-month-old baby lay and the child fell to its death on the stone floor. Ursula cursed Grace and now Grace is lame. Ursula will have to pay.

Ursula's illegitimate son does not know his name or who his father is. His mother will not tell him. So he imagines instead. And his wild imaginings fuel the fire underneath Ursula. Ursula is bought before Brian Darcy. And Darcy presents her with an impossible choice.

Ursula And Boy is written by Abigail Docherty and it stars Austin Moulton as Boy; Natalie Press as Ursula; and Meg Fraser as Grace. The sound design is by Nigel Lewis.

Producer/Lu Kemp for the BBC

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Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day's sport news and debate on the top stories.

From 8pm, there's cricket news and interviews as England and Australia continue their one-day series, plus a look ahead to the World Cup.

At 9pm, there is more on one of the day's top sports stories.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tennis

Thursday 27 January

8.30am-1.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the first men's semi-final at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Steve "Lammo" Lamacq welcomes his guests, including Jim Bob, into the studio to chat about some interesting new releases, in a show inspired by tomorrow's Evening Session special.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Tonight's show features live tracks from the encore to Manic Street Preachers' special gig, broadcast from Blackwood Miners' Institute, in the band's home town.

These tracks follow their live set, played immediately before (9-10pm), as part of BBC Radio 2's In Concert show, presented by Jo Whiley.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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