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Bob Harris presents highlights of the 45th Annual CMA Awards, which were held in Nashville on Wednesday evening.

This year's nominees include Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood (who both return to co-host the Awards ceremony), Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Sugarland, and two artists who have recently performed sets for BBC Radio 2 In Concert, Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the BBC

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Forces sweetheart Katherine Jenkins

Continuing the Presenter Season on Friday Night Is Music Night – the UK's longest-running live music programme – Paul O'Grady hosts a special Armistice Day concert.

Recorded at London's Hackney Empire, Paul pays tribute to servicemen and -women past and present (many of whom are in the audience) in this Forces Special. Forces sweetheart Katherine Jenkins tops the bill, while Helena Blackman and Ben Stock recreate their roles as Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward from the hit show Noel And Gertie.

Richard Balcombe conducts the 70-piece BBC Concert Orchestra as Friday Night Is Music Night re-creates the spirit of ENSA.

Presenter/Paul O'Grady, Producer/Jodie Keane for the BBC

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Junior Science Ep 1/3

Friday 11 November

3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Children become involved in science with strange and unsettling results, in these three specially-commissioned stories read by David Holt and written by Mick Jackson.

In the first week's tale, Back To School, young Robert Thornber discovers strange goings-on in the Science Block when he accidentally goes back to school a day early. He is soon forced to run for his life.

Next week, in The Answering Machine, the narrator remembers his father buying an early version of an answering machine. The machine changes the lives of his family in a chilling and unexpected way.

In the final tale, Zero Gravity, Daniel Taylor throws a ball into the air, with unexpected results. He is soon able to carry out the ultimate experiment in gravity and explores his home town in a way he never has before.

Reader/David Holt, Producer/Rosalynd Ward for Sweet Talk Productions

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Samuel West stars in Bomber

To mark Remembrance Day, BBC Radio 4 Extra repeats this unique real-time documentary drama in four parts, starring Samuel West and Tom Baker and dramatised by Joe Dunlop.

Planning And Preparation (2.30-4pm) opens the drama at 1430 hours on 18 February 1943, as RAF Lancaster crews plan a bombing raid over Germany.

Episode 2, Take-off (5.40-5.50pm), watches as 16 bomb-laden RAF Lancasters take off, targeting Germany's industrial heartland, at 1740 hours.

In The Raid (7.50-9.10pm), as Luftwaffe crews await tonight's battle RAF Lancasters approach their target.

The Return Leg (11.30pm-12midnight) charts the night's final events from 2330 hours. Many British and German lives have been irrevocably changed by tonight's bombing.

This dramatisation of Len Deighton's novel was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1995.

Director/Adrian Bean, Producer/Jonathan Ruffle for the BBC

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BBC Radio 4 Extra transmits a mixture of archive programmes to mark Armistice Day.

James Naughtie talks to Sebastian Faulks about Birdsong – his story of an Englishman's harrowing First World War experiences – in Book Club (6-6.30am).

Michael Morpugo's First World War tale of a boy's extraordinary bond with his horse, War Horse, stars Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn and Bob Hoskins (10-11am).

Also to mark Remembrance Day, Radio 4 Extra repeats Len Deighton's Bomber – a unique real-time documentary drama in four parts starring Samuel West and Tom Baker.

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Colin Murray, Pat Nevin and Perry Groves look ahead to the weekend's football and sporting action in Kicking Off With Colin Murray.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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David Croft and the 5 Live Formula 1 team look ahead to the penultimate Grand Prix of the season in Abu Dhabi.

Presenter/David Croft, Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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5 Live Formula 1 – 2011: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Practice Sessions

Friday 11 November

8.55-10.35am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
12.55-2.35pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the first and second practice sessions for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix comes live from the circuit of Yas Marina.

Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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