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Jazz pianist Robert Glasper joins Jamie Cullum, the UK's biggest-selling jazz artist of all time, as he continues to showcase his love for all types of jazz and music rooted in the genre, from its heritage to the future.

This versatile artist enjoys various parallel careers, from the acoustic Robert Glasper Trio to the hip-hop fusion Robert Glasper Experiment. He has also been involved in collaborations with artists including Mos Def, Q Tip and The Roots. His third and most recent album release, Double Booked, showcases both aspects of his music.

Jamie's series features live sessions and guests from around the world, as well as tracks from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's jazz session archive.

Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson

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Tony Bennett illustrates the musical and lyrical sophistication in a line-up that includes Louis Armstrong's Stardust, Duke Ellington's Take The "A" Train and Frank Sinatra's dramatic performance in It Was A Very Good Year, as he continues to guide listeners through his selection of the 40 defining songs from the Great American Songbook. The featured instrumental is Cherokee by the Charlie Barnet Orchestra.

Tony, a legend from the American swing era now in his 60th year as a performer, offers his personal thoughts, insights and insider's view on the greatest compositions ever written. Sir Michael Parkinson leads the way through the 10 songs covered each week, as each programme features Tony's anecdotes about the people who created them, the pantheon of singers who have interpreted them and his views about what makes each one special.

The Great American Songbook is an informal phrase, originally coined by Tony himself, describing the interrelated music of Broadway musical theatre, the Hollywood musical and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins in the Twenties.

Presenter/Michael Parkinson, Producer/Phil Critchlow

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Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn's violin concerto in E minor with soloist Akiko Suwanai, and Ian McQueen's Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3 commission, Earthly Paradise. The concert opens with Elgar's In The South – a sunny overture inspired by Elgar's stay on the Italian Riviera.

The search for the land where "none grow old" guides the twists and turns of William Morris's The Earthly Paradise. Ian McQueen's work for chorus and large orchestra evokes the poem's extraordinary world, surges with erotic charge, and conjures up Morris's magical vision of Iceland's landscape and sagas.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Gay ministers Martin Reynolds and Clare Herbert talk to Olivia O'Leary about whether the church accepts their sexuality and how open they can be about their personal life, as the series bringing together people who have had profound and similar experiences continues.

The two ministers also discuss how they reconcile the fact that if they win the acceptance they crave, it may split the church they love.

Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Sara Conkey

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Comedian and closet classicist Natalie Haynes meets the producers who work Medea into ITV1's The Bill and Oedipus into Ö÷²¥´óÐã One's EastEnders to find out what Greek tragedy and soap opera have in common.

On the face of it they couldn't be more different but, as Natalie discovers, the two forms have rather more in common than stereotype might have people believe. Soap and Greek tragedy alike focus relentlessly on families under pressure; both see it as their job to confront their fellow citizens with social taboos; and both compete keenly to win the praise of mass audiences.

Natalie soon finds out that this is no coincidence when she meets John Yorke, former executive producer on EastEnders and now Head of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Drama Production; Dominic Treadwell-Collins, series story producer on EastEnders; Kara Manley, series story editor on The Bill; Phil Redmond, the creator of Brookside; and other soap writers and story-liners who have worked on a wide range of soaps. She discovers that Aeschylus and Sophocles are often present in spirit at script conferences as story teams exhort each other to "make it more Greek".

Meanwhile, Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, who is currently touring a production of Medea, tells Natalie there is no connection at all between the two genres.

Natalie also speaks to playwright Ryan Craig; Edith Hall, professor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London; Dr Paula James from the Department of Classical Studies at The Open University; and journalist Tim Teeman.

Presenter/Natalie Haynes, Producer/Phil Tinline

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Highgate Letters by Jeff Young is a quirky and darkly comic drama, inspired by a true story, about life in the ghetto – aka Highgate, North London.

Originally from Liverpool, Joe lives in Highgate and is married with a six-year-old daughter, Megan. Megan is Joe's best friend – his only friend really. When Joe's daughter chalks on the pavement it creates near war between the chairman of the resident's committee, Mervyn Dawson, and Joe.

The cast features Conrad Nelson as Joe, Lauren Mote as Megan and Malcolm Raeburn as Mervyn.

Producer/Pauline Harris

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Young Turks Ep 1/3

Tuesday 13 to Thursday 15 April

3.30-3.45pm Ö÷²¥´óÐã RADIO 4

Young Turks is a series of three stories marking Istanbul's tenure as European City of Culture. The three stories explore Turkey's contemporary literary scene by showcasing the work of some of the nation's newest and youngest generation of writers.

The first story, by award-winning writer Elif Shafak, is The Happiness Of Blond People, read by Philip Arditti. A father attempts to change his family's fortunes by altering his image, but events don't go according to plan.

Tomorrow, in Hikmet Hükümenoglu's darkly comic story The Smell Of Fish, Cemile Abla finds an innovative but troubling way of dealing with unwanted marriage proposals. The story is read by Sirine Saba.

Thursday presents award-winning writer Feryal Tilmac's story, Fig Seed, about a family who attempt to put painful events behind them – but is reconciliation the answer? The reader is still to be confirmed.

Readers/Philip Arditti and Sirine Saba, Producer/Elizabeth Allard

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Human rights activist Clive Stafford Smith champions the medieval heroic outlaw Robin Hood in the second programme of this series of Great Lives.

Clive is a lawyer working for human rights both in Britain and abroad. He campaigns for the rights of prisoners on death row in the US and in Guantanamo Bay. His nomination for a life worth celebrating is at first surprising since it is the entirely fictitious Robin Hood. But, he argues in conversation with medievalist professor Stephen Knight and presenter Matthew Paris, the myth has a lot to teach about the way people treat each other.

Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Christine Hall

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Dr Mark Porter looks at the treatment of serious complications in the feet and eyes arising from diabetes, in this week's dose of the medical series.

Every week in the UK, diabetes is the cause of around 100 foot amputations. One of the commonest consequences of diabetes is restriction of blood flow to different organs and parts of the body. With reduced blood flow in the feet, sufferers are at considerable risk of developing dangerously infected ulcers. If the ulcers are not caught in time, many patients have to lose their feet in order to save their lives.

Dr Mark Porter visits the specialist diabetic foot clinic at King's College Hospital in London. There he talks to doctors, surgeons and foot specialists about the risks of life-threatening complications of diabetes in the feet, and hears about the various treatments and surgical operations which are helping to reduce the number of amputations for their patients. Mark also talks to patients about their experiences of the insidious threat from foot ulcers and how they've been treated.

The disease process which leads to ulcers developing in the feet also takes place in the eyes of some diabetic patients. Diabetic retinopathy presents a real risk of blindness if it's not detected and treated. Mark also visits the eye clinic at King's College Hospital to see laser treatment in action.

Presenter/Dr Mark Porter, Producers/Andrew Luck Baker, Erika Wright and Deborah Cohen

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 13 April

7.00-10.30pm Ö÷²¥´óÐã RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and reports from the night's Football League matches and, from 8pm, live commentary of Chelsea versus Bolton in the Premier League.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Ackling

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Following last week's radio preview of MGMT's new album, Ö÷²¥´óÐã 6 Music presents the 10th solo studio album by "Godlike genius" Paul Weller. Tracks from his hotly anticipated album Wake Up The Nation will be played in each show through the day and the Modfather himself is in conversation with Steve Lamacq from 4pm.

As an extension to the station's Album Of The Day concept, where a different album, old or new, is played throughout the day, 6 Music's Album Of The Day + aims to exclusively showcase a soon-to-be-released album by a key 6 Music artist. Albums previously showcased include Massive Attack's Heligoland and Gorillaz's Plastic Beach.

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Bill Drummond, aka King Boy D and co-founder of late Eighties avant-garde pop group The KLF, meets Andrew Collins to discuss his latest book, $20,000 – a book about uncertainty, motorways, money, meeting strangers, missing the point, doing things, sitting in cafes, and so on and so on...

Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Jax Coombes

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As part of Album Of The Day + Steve Lamacq interviews Paul Weller ahead of the release of his 10th studio album, Wake Up The Nation.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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My Life Story re-live Camden's Britpop years in concert, plus there's a session from Cate Le Bon recorded for Ö÷²¥´óÐã 6 Music in February. More archive tracks come from Bristol's ground-breaking The Pop Group (1979), jolly jangly pop from East Kilbride's Trash Can Sinatras (1990) and February's Marc Riley session from Nottingham's veteran mood makers Tindersticks.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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There's another chance for Adam and Joe fans everywhere to hear one of their old-school podcasts from yesteryear. Film and video director Garth Jennings sits in for Joe as listeners can catch up on the podcast from June 2008 entitled Shingles. The promise of a discussion of Joe's ailments is surely a tempting topic for any Adam and Joe fan...

This will also be available to download as a podcast after the show.

Presenters/Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings, Producer/James Stirling

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Gagan Grewal dedicates a whole show to the Sikh festival Vaisakhi, chatting to celebrities in Hindi-Urdu and English and partying with surprise stars who are joining in with the festivities.

He also hears how people around the country are celebrating in their own different ways. Also known as the Baisakhi, this ancient harvest festival in the Punjab region is the most important date in the Sikh holy calendar and is a very special day for many British Asians. The dancing, music and feasting will be essential ingredients of Gagan's show, mixing old and new celebratory traditions.

Presenter/Gagan Grewal

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