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TODAY’S RADIO
No Triumph, No Tragedy
1.30PM, RADIO 4 Clarence Adoo, a top trumpet player, got into a car and headed off to his brother’s stag party. A freak accident meant that Clarence emerged from that car paralysed from the shoulders down. In this programme, Clarence talks to Peter White about his musical life since the accident, and his role in creating the British Paraorchestra.
Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s
3PM, RADIO 2 Nigel Clark, the lead singer of the 1990s band Dodgy, joins Johnnie for this afternoon’s show. Nigel bowed out of the band back in 1998, and brought out a solo album in 2006, before returning to Dodgy in 2007. The singer-songwriter shares memories of the music he listened to as a boy in the 1970s, and Johnnie digs out some classic recordings from the BBC archive.
BBC Proms 2016
3.45PM, RADIO 3 The zestful Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, open this Prom with a celebration of Latin American music, followed by a tribute to Bach, composed by Villa-Lobos. The concert ends with a waltz by Ravel.
Poetry Please
4.30PM, RADIO 4 ‘The ploughman homeward plods his weary way/And leaves the world to darkness and to me.’ Roger McGough includes a reading of Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of the poet Thomas Gray.
Clare Teal
9PM, RADIO 2 The big-band leader and composer Duncan Lamont Sr joins Clare Teal this evening to talk about his Mr Benn Big Band project and about his illustrious career.
Everything You Wanted To Know About Classical Music
9PM, CLASSIC FM As the summer cools and fades, Catherine Bott evokes the icy drama of the Antarctic. She plays Vaughan Williams’s awesome Sinfonia Antarctica, Howard Goodall’s Shackleton’s Cross and some of the music Captain Scott and his men took with them, on records, on their ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.