IF YOU wanted to make a compilation album for a special someone, you'd probably arrange tracks on iTunes and burn a CD, which would take a fraction of the time and effort that went into making the CD's more treasured predecessor, the mix tape. The paragon of lo-fi magic, the mix tape has come to embody a special kind of vintage romance.
In
The Disappearing Art Of The Mix Tape (BBC Radio 4, Thursday, 11.30am), NME journalist David Quantick celebrates the dying artform, and talks to some of the format's biggest fans and most avid compilers, including Iain Banks and El
bow's Guy Garvey.
Nigel Kennedy is a man who knows a thing or two about changing people's attitudes towards music. The maverick violinist has long been a bone of contention in the classical music sphere because of his swaggering approach to the genre. But in
BBC Proms 2008: BBC Concert Orchestra (BBC Radio 3, Saturday, 6.30pm) he returns to the Proms for the first time in 21 years, to play Elgar's Violin Concerto. Afterwards, Kennedy takes to the stage with his new jazz outfit. Tune into
BBC Proms 2008: Nigel Kennedy Quintet (10pm) to hear their set.
This week's drama pick is a new three-part dramatisation of the Henry James classic,
The Portrait Of A Lady (BBC Radio 4, today, 3pm). Anna Maxwell Martin, who was brilliant in White Girl and Poppy Shakespeare, will play the protagonist, Isabel Archer, a girl who believes she is independent and in control of her own fate. Other cast members include Haydn Gwynne as Madame Merle and Robert Bathurst as Lord Warburton.
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