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TODAY’S RADIO
THE GODFATHER AND ME 11.30AM, RADIO 4
★★★★ Thefirstcoupleofpagesofmario Puzo’sbestsellerlayoutthebare bones of the saga that follows. The screenwriter and film director James Watkins looks back 50 years to the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of The Godfather, and charts the way the film changed how ItalianAmericans saw themselves.
PAST FORWARD: A CENTURY OF SOUND 1.45PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★
Around 18,000 families lived and worked on boats and barges in Britain’scanalsysteminitsheyday. It was a tough life: a working day could last 17 hours, conditions werecramped,andcanalwater spread cholera. It wasn’t all grim,
though, as living on a boat that headed into the countryside had its joys. Greg Jenner listens to archive recordings about life on the canals, plus plans for the future of these waterways.
STEVE LAMACQ 6PM, BBC 6 MUSIC
The Welsh rock band Manic Street
Preachers, usually now known as the Manics, will be at the Cardiff music venue Clwb Ifor Bach for this special gig. Steve Lamacq will be talking to the band ahead of the performance, in which they’ll be playing classic tracks from their hit-strewn career as part of this weekend’s 6 Music Festival in Wales.
THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM
George Gershwin’s dazzling Rhapsody In Blue came into his head, almost in its entirety, when the composer was travelling on a train from New York to Boston –andyoucanheartheclangs andrhythmsofthetraininthe finished work. John Suchet includes it in this selection of recordings by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. SJ