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• music and arts BBC Proms 2008

  7:00pm BBC Radio 3

  The Gürzenich Orchestra marks 150 years of performances by re-creating the 1904 concert in which it introduced Mahler's Fifth Symphony to the world.

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• music and arts Lyrics by Don Black

  7:30pm BBC Radio 2

  Michael Parkinson introduces a special concert to mark the 70th birthday of lyricist Don Black, the man who penned the words for Diamonds Are Forever, To Sir with Love and Born Free.

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• drama The Friday Play: The Listener

  9:00pm BBC Radio 4 FM

  Superbly written psychological and philosophical thriller about the meaning and value of identity. Its intellectual brilliance is matched by its pitch-black action.

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