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Pick of the Week: 05/10/2014

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Mary Anne Hobbs chooses her highlights from the previous seven days of BBC Radio.

Steven Fry speaks frankly about his cocaine use. 

Iggy Pop shares some sartorial secrets, how do you pull off silk pyjamas on a public highway?

We walk on the shingle of Derek Jarman's beach with poet Kate Tempest, then roam the New York City Streets of the 70s with a cab driver who worked the same shift as Philip Glass.

And there's music too - John Grant with the BBC Philharmonic and also John Taverner's swansong 'Flood of Beauty'.

Lauren Laverne (6Music, 3rd October)

Tom Ravenscroft: John Grant and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (6Music, 3rd October)

Simon Mayo Drivetime (Radio 2, 29th September)

Out There (Radio 4, 28th September)

Woman's Hour (Radio 4, All Week)

The Forum: Aliens (World Service, 27th September)

The Essay: Trip Sheet (Radio 3, All Week)

Between the Ears (Radio 3, 4th October)

Shipping Forecast (Radio 4, All Week)

Radcliffe and Maconie (6Music, All Week)

Breakfast (Radio 3, All Week)

Radio 1 Stories: The Fear (Radio 1, 30th September)

Iggy Pop (6Music, 5th October)

Front Row (Radio 4, All Week)

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Celebrating John Tavener - Flood of Beauty (Radio 3, 28th September).

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