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The Surgery With Aled –
BBC Radio 1 Stories: Till Death Do Us Part

Sunday 6 February

9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 1

Aled Haydn Jones explores the topic of death in The Surgery

In a society which keeps death shut away from view – an event that happens behind closed doors – how do young people cope when they have to deal with it? Tonight's Surgery features two short documentaries looking at the process of dying, both for those who are facing an early death and for those left behind.

Part one focuses on Kayleigh, a beauty therapist from Surrey who has been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour. Kayleigh talks candidly about how her life has changed from a world of facials and hairdressers to one of hospitals and hair loss.

In Part two Jess opens up about the loss of her sister Emily. Jess was 18 when Emily died of a rare form of cancer, aged 22. Jess describes how she got through her sister's illness and death with the constant support of her family and friends.

By talking openly about their own experiences, Jess and Kayleigh hope to make death less of a taboo subject and offer listeners an understanding of bereavement and grief.

As ever, listeners can fully interact with The Surgery via texts and phone calls for help on absolutely anything. A grief counsellor will be in the studio to help with any issues and questions arising from the documentaries.

Presenter/Aled Haydn Jones, Producer/Rebecca Maxted for Wise Buddah Creative

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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to choral composer and Anglican priest Ronald Corp, as he celebrates his 60th birthday.

Ronald's most recent choral composition is Dhammapada, a collaboration with the Buddhist writer Francis Booth.

Aled's faith guest is former nun Deborah Hollamby, who looks at the news of the week from a faith and ethics perspective and gives the Moment Of Reflection.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC

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Johnnie Walker continues to celebrate the Seventies with classic hits from both sides of the Atlantic.

In his My Seventies feature, The Three Degrees discuss their music and memories of the decade. The group's most successful hits from those years include the UK No. 1 When Will I See You Again; and Woman In Love from 1979, which peaked at No. 3 in the UK charts.

Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa for Wise Buddah

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Brian D'Arcy plays hymns from the first edition of Hymns Ancient And Modern

It is 150 years since Hymns Ancient And Modern was first published. This week, Brian D'Arcy plays some hymns from the very first edition and finds out why it was so popular and well loved.

This week's featured choir is Derby Cathedral Choir and hymns include Rock Of Ages, O Jesus I Have Promised and Hail Gladdening Light. The musical director is Peter Gould and the organist is Tom Corfield.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Clair Jaquiss for the BBC

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Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Richard Mabey, who has been described as "Britain's greatest living nature writer". His first book, Food For Free, came out in 1972 and since then he has published a stream of acclaimed works, including a biography of Gilbert White, which won the 1986 Whitbread Biography of the Year, the ground-breaking bestseller Flora Britannica (1996) and his latest book, Weeds (2010). He contributes frequently to BBC radio, wrote and narrated the 1996 BBC TV series Postcards From The Country and has made films for the BBC on Kew Gardens and the Yorkshire Dales. He is currently working on a book about Flora Thompson, author of Lark Rise To Candleford.

His musical passions are wide-ranging, from a charming madrigal by John Dowland (which reminds him of his schooldays) to a modern setting of a First World War protest song, an improvisation over the song of marsh warblers, a male-voice choir from a Corsican hill town singing a traditional song and two contrasting pieces from Latin America, including one played by the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall

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Catherine Bott reflects on the four Flemish songbooks of 16th-century chronicler Zeghere van Male, and introduces performances of the music by Ensemble Clement Janequin.

The Songbooks Of Zeghere Van Male appeared in Bruges in 1542 and take their name from their owner, a prominent tradesman in the city. They are some of the most intriguing Western European musical manuscripts, consisting of four large part books containing over 1,200 pages, each of which features one or more illuminated vignettes of extraordinary quality. The books feature over 200 different compositions, mainly songs, and give a fascinating overview of the kind of music that flourished in the first half of the 16th century around Bruges.

The songbooks also include some Italian madrigals and several Dutch polyphonic songs and instrumental works. The composers range from international figures such as Josquin, Mouton, Willaert and Sermisy to lesser-known regional figures such as De Hondt and Hellinck.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Sam Phillips

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Colin Teevan's play Massistonia is a timely tale of Western hubris and Eastern European manipulation of the system, loosely based on his own ill-fated trip to Macedonia to direct a major theatre production.

Jason has high hopes for his international version of Alcmaeon in Corinth and embarks on the project with little idea of the forces about to be unleashed against him.

The play is directed by Toby Swift and Jason is played by Darren Boyd, Aleksandar by Nikola Kodjabashia, Castor/Mayor by Ewan Bailey, Dragan/Aco by Sasha C Damjanovski, Kaliopi by Dolya Gavanski, Todor/Consul by Ivan Marevich, Dionysos by Iain Batchelor and Afrodita by Leah Brotherhead. The original music is by Nikola Kodjabashia.

Colin Teevan is a prolific theatre and radio writer. Former writer-in-residence at Queens University, Belfast, he has also been ScreenEast Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia and Literary Fellow to the universities of Durham and Newcastle. His work is regularly performed all over the world and Colin has been a regular contributor to The Verb on BBC Radio 3. One of his plays for Drama On 3, the acclaimed How Many Miles To Basra, was subsequently re-worked for the stage, winning a Clarion Award in 2007.

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When David Foster Wallace hanged himself in 2008, at the age of 46, he was considered by many to be the most gifted and linguistically exuberant American novelist and short story writer of his generation. His books include the 1,000-page Infinite Jest, a novel of grand ambition and stylistic experiment that came complete with 388 endnotes (footnotes, digressions and constant second-guessing of every thought are features of Wallace's signature style). In April The Pale King, Wallace's final, unfinished novel, will be published. Few literary novels have been more eagerly anticipated in recent years.

This Sunday Feature is presented by Professor Geoff Ward, author of a literary history of America. He, like many, was convinced Wallace would be the pre-eminent American writer to reckon with in the years ahead and was shocked by his tragic death. He assesses Wallace's legacy, themes and preoccupations, talking to the precursor Wallace admired most, Don DeLillo, and to friends, collaborators and contemporaries.

In the company of the writer's sister, Amy Wallace, Ward travels to the Midwest of America, where the writer grew up, and considers the impact of place on his imagination. He also talks to Wallace's publisher and editor, Michael Pietsch, about the difficult task of assembling Wallace's final fragments into The Pale King.

Presenter/Geoff Ward, Producer/Paul Quinn

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Author Howard Jacobson, who won the Man Booker Prize 2010 for The Finkler Question, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.

Howard talks to Kirsty about his life and career and describes how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 6 February

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Coverage of the afternoon's sporting action kicks off with coverage of Rangers versus Celtic in the Scottish Cup fifth round.

From 2pm there's second-half commentary of the south Wales derby as Swansea City meet Cardiff City in the Championship.

Following that there is pre-match build-up to the afternoon's Premier League match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge; live commentary on the game can be heard from 4pm.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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5 Live NFL – Super Bowl XLV

Sunday 6 February

11.30pm-3.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

From 11.30pm there's live commentary of the 45th Super Bowl from the Cowboys Stadium in Texas, as the NFC Champions take on the AFC Champions in the showpiece event of the NFL season.

Producer/Simon Crosse for USP

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The commentary team looks back on the season and previews tonight's Super Bowl in Dallas, commentary on which can be heard live on BBC Radio 5 Live from 11.30pm.

Producer/Simon Crosse for USP

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Erol Alkan returns to the 6 Mix, taking listeners on a sonic journey through bleeps, beats, beasts and bass from the cutting edge of club culture.

Since his last show, Erol has been busy touring Australia and America as well as being hard at work in the studio, remixing MGMT and Tame Impala.

In his latest 6 Mix, Erol delves into the crates to unearth a selection of hidden gems alongside a selection of upfront electronic and experimental sounds. In the final 30 minutes, his "mystery mix" returns with a secret selection of future club bangers destined to shake the dancefloor in 2011.

Presenter/Erol Alkan, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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