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Nashville songwriter-turned-solo-artist Kim Richey is in session for Bob Harris this evening.

A Music Row songwriter in the early Nineties, Kim has written hit songs for Trisha Yearwood, Radney Foster and the Dixie Chicks and, as a recording artist, has just released her sixth solo album, Wreck Your Wheels.

Though music had always been a passion, Kim trained and worked as a teacher and was 39 when she recorded her debut country album. Her follow-up pop album, Bitter Sweet, was released in 1997, followed by Glimmer two years later and Rise in 2002.

In 2007, Kim worked with London-based producer Giles Martin (son of Sir George Martin) on her acclaimed Chinese Boxes album. She now splits her time between Nashville and London and has built up a loyal fan base across Europe. She talks to Bob about her career and performs live songs from her new album.

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Celebrated composer and arranger Gordon Langford talks to Frank Renton about his influential album, Traditionally British, in this week's edition of Listen To The Band.

He recalls his earliest days as a student and army bandsman and listeners can hear just a handful of his many arrangements that created a new and original style of light music for the brass band.

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Tim Rice continues his American tour and reaches Texas, the Lone Star State, in this week's American Pie.

Featured artists include Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, Ann Miller, Janis Joplin, Glen Campbell, Roy Orbison, Beyonce, Johnny Mathis, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and the Dixie Chicks.

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91Èȱ¬ PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 26

Thursday 5 August

7.30-10.15pm 91Èȱ¬ RADIO 3

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Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace

Andrew McGregor introduces the first of Valery Gergiev's two 91Èȱ¬ Proms appearances this season. Live from London's Royal Albert Hall in London, Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace – an ensemble of first-rate players from around the world – in two symphonies by Mahler, continuing the Proms Mahler cycle to commemorate 150 years since the composer's birth.

The often child-like innocence of his Symphony No. 4 is followed by the funereal, stormy and ultimately life-affirming Symphony No. 5.

This Prom will be broadcast on 91Èȱ¬ Two on 7 August and is repeated on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3 on Tuesday 10 August at 2pm.

Presenter/Andrew McGregor, Producer/Clive Portbury

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Some people bury them in their back gardens, while others build elaborate crypts and one man is even sending his into space. Ian Peacock explores what time capsules say about their creators and the secrets of filling the perfect time capsule.

Among the capsules Ian encounters is the mighty Crypt of Civilisation in Atlanta. Sealed in 1940, this vast chamber attempts to communicate all the greatest achievements of humanity to the people who will open it in the year 8113 AD. But this is far from the norm.

In London, Ian meets Brian Durrans, a self-confessed capsule junkie and founder member of the International Time Capsule Society. Its purpose is to chart the locations of as many time capsules as possible, and probe the motivations of those who bury them.

As Ian discovers in the society's archives, there are no rules when it comes to time capsules – the burial of a pair of leggings in an official City of Norwich capsule attests to that.

And, at a primary school in Lincolnshire, Ian discovers the joys and heartbreaks of time capsules. Map in hand, a persistent Ian goes hunting for a canister buried in the Sixties. It becomes an increasingly desperate search as hole after hole yields nothing but rusty nails and coins – but, when all hope seems lost, there's a breakthrough. Ian discovers what the pupils of the past have to say to their modern counterparts when a dirty, sodden cassette peaks out of the leaky canister.

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Issachar has been given an ultimatum by his wife, Yvonne – either the dreadlocks go or she does. But the veteran barber he visits has other ideas, in Marcia Layne's The Barber And The Ark – today's Afternoon Play offering.

Over a bottle of his "special ingredient roots tonic", the barber shares his dream of discovering the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. It's a dream that will change Issachar's life.

Everal A Walsh stars as Issachar, Ram John Holder as Errol, Kay Purcell as Yvonne, Tachia Newall as Malachi and Faz Singhateh as Abdullah.

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When he was 14, wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson read about a bird that sings at night. Now, some years later, he tries to get close to a nightingale to record its song.

The location is Rutland Water. There are two areas here which are regularly frequented by nightingales – the Lyndon Reserve on the south shore and Hambleton Wood on a peninsula extending out into the reservoir.

Having been guided by the wardens from the Nature Reserve to the areas of scrub where nightingales have been heard singing, Chris is able to rig up microphones near potential song posts. Over the course of several nights, and using different microphone techniques, Chris is able to get closer and closer to a singing male bird – and, on one occasion, gets even more than he bargained for when two males begin a vocal sparring match on adjacent territories.

The result, after several sleepless nights and a battle with brambles and nettles, is the most astonishing clear and beautiful recording of a nightingale.

Chris's quest to find and record a nightingale also features commentary from Rob Thomas of Cardiff University and Rob Fuller from the British Trust for Ornithology, about the song of the nightingale, its composition and function.

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Jonathan Overend has all the day's sports news and, from 7.30pm, is joined by special guests for 5 Live Cricket, for a look ahead to the second Test between England and Pakistan, which starts at Edgbaston tomorrow.

From 9.30pm, 5 Live Golf brings listeners the latest from the golfing world.

Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Steve Jones

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Steve Lamacq welcomes Romeo from the Magic Numbers and Get Cape Wear Cape to this week's Roundtable to discuss some new releases.

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Gideon Coe's chosen concert tracks this evening include a set from Jonathan Richman, from 1988, and Nineties New Yorkers Luscious Jackson.

Sessions featured come courtesy of Chicago grungers Royal Trux, gothy Leeds trio Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry and there's a 1994 Evening Session from the evergreen Wedding Present.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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