Aled's January appearances

carolan · Aled's January appearances

Well, after all the Aled appearances recently, January is going to be a bit empty Sad

- except for Aled sitting in for Ken Bruce for 3 days from Wednesday Smile

The Radio Wales programme has finished, no FNIMN until February - how empty life wil be!! Sad

Wednesday 2nd: radio 2: 9.30 – 12.00: Aled sits in for Ken Bruce
Thursday 3rd: radio 2: 9.30 – 12.00: Aled sits in for Ken Bruce
Friday 4th: radio 2: 9.30 – 12.00: Aled sits in for Ken Bruce

Sunday 6th
* Good Morning Sunday – BBC radio 2 – 7.00 – 9.00: Aled says Good Morning Sunday to the Rev Peter Owen Jones, who shares his adventures from his new BBC Two television series Extreme Pilgrim. Aled also talks to Dr Savi Arora, the Sikh podcaster and blogger.
* Songs of Praise For Epiphany Sunday BBC 1: 4.45 – 5.20: Aled discovers what school children think about the Christmas story of the wise men and meets three people with their own priceless gifts including a deaf musician who's just been awarded an OBE for services to music.
There's music from the Bradford Youth Choir, Aled performs a new song by the writers of You Raise Me Up and also joins school choirs from West Yorkshire in Leeds Cathedral for some suitably seasonal songs including We Three Kings, Simple Gifts and Hail Redeemer, King Divine.
* The Choir BBC - radio 3 – 6.30 – 8.00
Aled talks to W Stephen Smith, author of A Naked Voice, and Valerie Lippoldt-Mack, two American authors who have written self-help guides on how to be an effective member of a choir.
Aled also looks back and forward at the wide-ranging use of choral music in computer games, film, television and advertising. Aled meets some of those soundtrack composers who have made effective use of choral music: Steve Sidwell, the man behind the memorable Honda Civic choral car ads; composer Debbie Wiseman, who regularly writes choral music into her film and television soundtracks; and Jesper Kyd, who persuades computer-games publishers to finance the use of choirs in the soundtracks for games such as Halo 3.
There's also a look ahead to the 150th anniversary this year of the Hallé Choir and the choral compositions of Judith Weir, whose work features in this year's BBC Symphony Orchestra Composer Weekend.

Sunday 13th
* Good Morning Sunday – BBC radio 2 – 7.00 – 9.00 Aled welcomes Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year nominee Martin Simpson, as well as former Jain monk and editor of Resurgence magazine, Satish Kumar.
* The Choir BBC - radio 3 – 6.30 – 8.00. Aled explores the choral world of French composer Lili Boulanger, who died tragically young at the age of only 24. After her death, her music was promoted tirelessly by her elder sister Nadia. An acclaimed conductor and teacher, Nadia was the founder of a vocal ensemble which reintroduced the works of Monteverdi and Schutz to the salons of Paris. Plus there's a complete performance of Faure's Requiem, conducted by Thierry Fischer with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.

Sunday 20th
* Good Morning Sunday – BBC radio 2 – 7.00 – 9.00 Aled celebrates the life of Martin Luther King, a day ahead of the great man's birthday.
* The Choir BBC - radio 3 – 6.30 – 8.00 Mozart in Salzburg: Aled visits the city where Mozart wrote most of his significant choral music, and seeks out the divide between the composer's faith and duty among the city's historic churches, chapels and cathedral.

Sunday 27th
* Good Morning Sunday – BBC radio 2 – 7.00 – 9.00 Good Morning Sunday: On Holocaust Memorial Day Aled talks to Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, while Rabbi Pete Tobias joins Aled in the studio.
* Songs of Praise: BBC1 5.25 - 6.00: Aled visits the market town of Hexham in Northumberland, and takes a guided tour with the local traffic warden, meeting the great-granny with worldwide impact and the race course owner with a royal connection. There's music from All Angels, Aled's new version of All My Trials, Lord. Hymns sung in Hexham Abbey include The King of Love My Shepherd Is and All Creatures Of Our God And King
* The Choir BBC - radio 3 – 6.30 – 8.00 The Singing Revolution: Latvian conductor Kaspars Putnins tells Aled how music played a vital role during the overthrow of communism in the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, with specially recorded music from the BBC Singers.