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Network Radio Âé¶¹Éç Week 45
Highlights 7-13 November 2009

(L-R) Jason Watkins is Mr Boffin, Pauline Quirke is Mrs Boffin, Jamie Foreman is Rogue Riderhood, Lizzy Watts is Lizzie Hexham, Patrick Kennedy is Eugene Wreyburn, Lee Ross is Silas Wegg, Alex Jennings is Charles Dickens, Daisy Haggard is Bella Wilfer, Carl Prekopp is John Rokesmith and Neil Stuke is Bradley Headstone

Woman's Hour Drama – Our Mutual Friend

Monday 9 to Friday 13 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 4

Pauline Quirke, Alex Jennings, Neil Stuke and Patrick Kennedy star in this new dramatisation of Charles Dickens's last complete novel

1989 – Day-By-Day

Saturday 7 to Friday 13 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 4

The first crossings of the Berlin Wall are among the featured events from 1989, as Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 continues to recreate 1989 in sound, drawing on the Âé¶¹Éç and other vivid news archive and the music of the time

Âé¶¹Éç SWITCH LIVE 2009

Sunday 8 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 1

The Âé¶¹Éç's flagship event for teens comes from London's Hammersmith Apollo and features performances from Black Eyed Peas, The Saturdays, N-Dubz, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2009

Sunday 8 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 2 and Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 4

In the year when the UK bade farewell to its last First World War veteran, Harry Patch, Âé¶¹Éç Radio marks Remembrance Sunday with several programmes

The Choir – Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Sunday 8 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 3

Aled Jones presents music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo's – "South Africa's cultural ambassadors" – concert at the Hall For Cornwall, Truro

1989 SEASON
Drama On 3 – The Promise By Alexei Arbuzov

Sunday 8 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 3

Nick Dear's adaptation of The Promise forms part of Âé¶¹Éç Radio 3's 1989 Season which marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, other programmes include Sunday Feature – The Muse Of Censorship, Words And Music, Nightwaves, The Essay and Jazz On 3

The Crescent And The Cross

Monday 9 November on Âé¶¹Éç WORLD SERVICE

This new series examines turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam, covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa

How David Hasselhoff Brought Down The Wall

Tuesday 10 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 2

British comedian Richard Herring irreverently intertwines the fall of Communism with the rise of David Hasselhoff

FREE THINKING 2009
Night Waves

Thursday 12 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 3

In a lecture entitled "Newfangled Families", Professor Lisa Jardine argues that the science of reproduction will create some of the century's most challenging ethical dilemmas

Friday Night Is Mercer Night

Friday 13 November on Âé¶¹Éç RADIO 2

Âé¶¹Éç Radio 2 hosts an evening of programmes to celebrate the centenary of award-winning lyricist Johnny Mercer – the man responsible for classics like Moon River

Africa's Forgotten Soldiers

Friday 13 November on Âé¶¹Éç WORLD SERVICE

This new documentary features first-hand accounts from the, often overlooked, African troops who fought in the Second World War

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