19:00

The World; Weather

Wed 23^rd Aug 2006, 19:00 on BBC Four

19:30

Proms on Four

Wed 23^rd Aug 2006, 19:30 on BBC Four

The London Philharmonic Orchestra play the UK premiere of A Relic of Memory by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 with Nikolai Lugansky , and Rakhmaninov's The Bells, with Sergei Leiferkus, Tatiana Monogarova and Vsevolod Grivnov. Turnage and Jurowski talk in the interval. Also live on BBC Radio 3.
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Contributors

Unknown:: Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Unknown:: Vladimir Jurowski
Unknown:: Nikolai Lugansky
Unknown:: Sergei Leiferkus
Unknown:: Tatiana Monogarova
Unknown:: Vsevolod Grivnov.

Source: Radio Times

21:40

Behind the Couch

BBC Four

Wed 23^rd Aug 2006, 21:40 on BBC Four

New.
A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.

Source: Radio Times

22:40

Gods and Monsters

BBC Four

Wed 23^rd Aug 2006, 22:40 on BBC Four

Ian McKellen , Brendan Fraser and Lynn Redgrave star in Bill Condon 's touching 1998 biographical drama about the last days of Hollywood horror director James Whale. Review page 45.