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On Easter Day, Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to best-selling crime novelist and member of the House of Lords PD James.

Baroness James is a Lay Patron of the Prayer Book Society and, in the 400th anniversary year of the King James Bible, celebrates the role it has played in literature. Aled's faith guest is the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, who gives a special Easter message.

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Johnnie Walker revisits the decade of Pans People, platforms, prog, pop and punk and chats to Steve Miller.

As he releases a new album, Let Your Hair Down, Steve recalls his most successful decade, the Seventies – a real breakthrough time for his band. After eight years of plugging away, in 1973 The Steve Miller Band released The Joker LP. It went platinum, with its titular single becoming an instant favourite.

Steve recalls the lead up to that album, and also talks about his musical influences and contemporaries from the Seventies. He also remembers the band's hectic touring schedule; hanging out with The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac; and how he escaped it all, farming alfalfa sprouts!

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Alan Titchmarsh presents a selection of classics for Easter Sunday including the Easter Hymn and Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni; the Wedding Cake Caprice by Saint-SaΓ«ns; and a listener request for In A Village Churchyard – an Easter Idyll, a recording which was once a regular feature on These You Have Loved, presented by Doris Arnold.

This week also sees the start of a new feature on Vintage Vocalists, as suggested by listeners. Alan looks at the life and career of a Beniamino Gigli, a cobbler's son from Recanati in Italy – a tenor the public nicknamed Caruso Secondo but who preferred to call himself Gigli Primo.

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Brian D'Arcy presents a feast of Easter music, readings and poetry recorded in Bath Abbey.

Joining Brian this week is actress Sophie Ward; the choir of Bath Abbey; English Festival Brass; organist Marcus Sealy; and music director Shean Bowers.

Easter favourites include Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, This Joyful Eastertide, Thine Be The Glory and Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

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Eric Knowles is well known to antiques lovers as a ceramics expert on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV's The Antiques Roadshow. He has also appeared on many other TV antiques programmes, including The Great Antiques Hunt, The Antique Inspectors and You Can't Take it With You.

His Private Passions begin with a Bach Brandenburg Concerto, which is contemporaneous with the foundation of the famous Meissen porcelain factory at Dresden. His other musical choices include Borodin's In The Steppes Of Central Asia and Debussy's liquid Arabesque No. 1, which evokes the sinuous forms of Lalique glass.

Eric brings along a 17th-century Chinese bowl and a piece of Lalique glass from his own collection to illustrate the similarities, which can be seen on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ website.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall

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Lucie Skeaping examines the background and music to Handel's moving Easter Oratorio – La Resurrezione – which he wrote in his early twenties during his formative years in Rome.

The piece was composed for Easter Day 1708, for a gala performance at the opulent Ruspoli Palace, and featured the finest musicians from the time, including an orchestra led by Archangelo Corelli. La Resurrezione (The Resurrection) is a dramatic recollection of events following Christ's Crucifixion. In recent years, Handel's Easter Oratorio, as it's sometimes known, has attracted renewed interest and spawned several recordings.

Lucie relates the background and story of this youthful Handelian masterpiece and illustrates the programme with a cross-section of performances taken from CD.

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Catherine Bott joins the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Garry Walker and soloist Jennifer Pike at Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall to look at some of the musical nuances to be found in Mendelssohn's popular Violin Concerto in E minor.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Les Pratt

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David Tennant plays Kafka in a new play for Drama On 3

Murray Gold's new play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play – or is it the musical? – introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life: Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer.

David Tennant takes on the role of Franz Kafka in this play directed by Jeremy Mortimer. Music is by Murray Gold, who also wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore.

Kafka The Musical will be released as a Play Of The Week podcast the Friday after broadcast (29 April).

Producer and Director/Jeremy Mortimer

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Historian Adam Smith visits contemporary America to trace how the dividing lines of the Civil War are still visible beneath US politics 150 years on, in the era of Obama, as the series concludes.

He visits the Old Capitol Building in Springfield, Illinois, where Obama launched his Presidential campaign in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln.

In Virginia, he discovers how the disputes of the Civil War still stir among statues and school textbooks, fresh Confederate headstones and debates on states' rights.

In the Washington theatre where Lincoln was shot, Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo reflects on the rising antagonism in American politics today, with talk of nullification, secession and states' rights, tyranny and treason.

And Adam visits a museum which painfully embodies the difficulty America still has in coming to terms with the conflict.

Presenter/Adam Smith, Producer/Phil Tinline

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Andrew Buchan (Garrow's Law) and Josette Simon (Casualty, Silent Witness) read poetry and prose about law and order. Following the model used by a popular American TV series of the same name, they begin by focusing on crime itself with TS Eliot's mischievous cat Macavity and extracts from Dickens's Oliver Twist, as well as PD James, followed by the appearance of the police – both the uniformed variety and the private detective.

Then they are in court with Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mocking Bird (Harper Lee) and Shakespeare's Portia from The Merchant Of Venice. Finally, sentence is carried out and the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged and Oscar Wilde is in Reading Gaol writing his famous ballad.

Other writers include Seamus Heaney, Stieg Larsson, Carol Ann Duffy and Dostoevsky. The texts are interwoven with music by JanÑček, Hamish MacCunn, Gilbert and Sullivan, Prokofiev and Henry Mancini.

Producer/Helen Garrison

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This meditation marks the dawning of Easter Day from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, led by the Dean, the Rev Canon Anthony O'Brien. The Cathedral Girls' Choir is directed by Philip Arkwright with Timothy Noon (organ).

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Designer Cath Kidston joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.

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Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities Ep 1/2

Easter Sunday 24 April

3.00-4.00pm ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 4

Doleful is charged as Master of Ceremonies to turn Handley Cross into a spa town. Enter the sporting hero to rival all before him – John Jorrocks.

RS Surtees's Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities was published in 1838 to great acclaim. Jorrocks is one of the great comic characters of English literature, a sporting cockney grocer, vulgar, good-natured, master-of-foxhounds and a social hero among the old hunting fraternity.

It is set at a time when the "sport" was changing from being a popular and inclusive neighbourhood event – the old-fashioned farmer's hunt – into a more exclusive and expensive activity.

Jorrocks's Jaunts And Jollities gives a brash, honest and funny portrait of an innocent, naive England which is only just beginning to register the profound social changes brought on by the industrial revolution.

Dramatist Scott Cherry turns his comic imagination and free inspiration to the recreation of the world of Jorrocks and Handley Cross.

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Kirsty Young continues to present some gems from the Desert Island Discs library continuing with the first collection of castaways – children's authors.

Desert Island Discs Revisited updates and contextualises each interview.

In today's programme, listeners can hear the choices of Julia Donaldson, creator of The Gruffalo, who was castaway with Kirsty in 2009.

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Listeners are invited to make an appointment to listen to the Comedy Club, every Sunday to Friday from 10pm.

In Sunday night's Comedy Club, Andi Osho brings listeners the first episode of the Masterson Inheritence with Paul Merton and Caroline Quentin trying to improvise their way through the 18th century.

Arthur Smith is on air from Monday to Thursday with a great line-up of programmes, including The Simon Day Show. His guest is Tim Minchin.

On Friday night, there's a guest host of the Comedy Club who serves up What's So Funny? along with The News Quiz Extra.

Presenters/Arthur Smith and Andi Osho, Producer/Elizabeth Jaynes for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

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Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece, starring Robert De Niro, is celebrated in 5 Live Sport today.

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5 Live Sport

Easter Sunday 24 April

1.00-6.00pm ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 5 LIVE

The Sunday Review takes a look ahead to the Easter Sunday football action and Colin Murray reviews the weekend's sport so far.

From 2.30pm, Colin interviews a sporting legend in Murray Meets.

At 3pm, Mark Chapman presents the build-up to this afternoon's live football and has updates from the World Snooker Championships, followed by live commentary of Bolton Wanderers versus Arsenal from 4pm.

Presenters/Colin Murray and Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr

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Gethin Jones follows the stories of lottery winners and how their lives changed after their windfall.

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Spoony looks at why there are so few black managers in both professional and semi-professional football in the UK.

Presenter/Spoony, Producer/Jonathan Parry

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5 Live Baseball

Easter Sunday 24 April

6.00-10.00pm ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

The New York Yankees visit their American League East rivals the Baltimore Orioles, with live commentary from Camden Yards.

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In the latest edition of The First Time, Matt Everitt speaks to the other man behind Live Aid – concert impresario Harvey Goldsmith.

In conversation with Matt, Harvey revels in the hey day of music when he had the pick of the best acts around and describes how he just saw music as "entertainment" and the need to give the audience a show and variety.

He also talks about his relationship with The Who, the aura of Led Zeppelin and becoming Jeff Beck's manager.

Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Dina Jahina

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Over the next few months ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music welcomes a host of musical and cultural luminaries when they take over Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service show while Jarvis takes time off to pursue his day job – the return of Pulp – for a summer tour of festivals across Europe.

Stepping up for the first takeover is Primal Scream front man Bobby Gillespie. Listeners can expect quality nuggets from his expansive record collection in the form of Gene Vincent, Kris Kristofferson, The Paris Sisters, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Willie Nelson and Cat's Eyes, to name but a few.

He's joined by Clash/B.A.D. legend Mick Jones, who drops in to chat about his own journey into the world of music.

In Bobby's own words: "It's always been a fantasy of mine to host a radio show. I'm really looking forward to the takeover; Jarvis has great taste in music and I hope I can turn his fans on to some cool sounds while he's away."

Presenter/Bobby Gillespie, Producer/Adam Dineen

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