Aled's December appearances

xbons · Last edited by xbons on Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:30 pm; edited 1 time in total

Well, Aled sure needs a Tardis this month! I hope he gets a little bit of sleep in between all this!:

Friday 1st: Friday Night is Music Night radio 2 7.30 - 9.15. From The Mermaid Theatre, London. With guests All Angels and cellist Natalie Clein

Sunday 3rd
* Good Morning Sunday BBC radio 2: 7.00am - 9.00am Aled's guests are singer-songwriter Ralph McTell and former member of Bucks Fizz Cheryl Baker, who, as part of the Radio 2 Life2Live campaign, A Child Against All Odds, talks about her experiences of IVF and the ethical and moral issues she faced.
Also Il Divo, according to their website,
* Aled Jones Radio Wales: 10.00.-.11.00. Guest: John Challis (with whom Aled will be appearing in panto at Richmond!)
* Songs of Praise - BBC1: 6.10 - 6.45 - Aled returns to his native North Wales for the start of the Advent season and meets people who are coming home for Christmas - a professional harpist who plays in West End musicals, a budding playwright who loves the Welsh hills and a family of three generations looking forward to their first Christmas together. Aled sings O Come, O Come Emmanuel in St Asaph Cathedral where local choirs gather for a feast of Advent music.
* The Choir - BBC radio 3 6.30 - 8.00: Mozart died leaving his Requiem unfinished but many musicians have tried their hand at completing it. Aled samples some of the many different attempts made over the last 200 years and talks to Philip Wilby about his involvement with the newest version, which combines historical reconstruction with contemporary music.
Tuesday 5th: This Morning ITV 10.30 - 12.30 An interview with Aled, and he does an exclusive performance of the duet version of Walking in the Air

Sunday 10th
* Good Morning Sunday BBC radio 2: 7.00am - 9.00am. Special Guests: comedian and political activist Mark Thomas and the Songbirds.
* Aled Jones Radio Wales: 1.0.-.11.00. Guest: Engelbert Humperdinck
Tuesday 12th
The Wright Stuff Channel 5 - 9.00.- 10.15

Sunday 17th
* Good Morning Sunday BBC radio 2: 7.00am - 9.00am. His guest is actress turned author Carol Drinkwater.
* Aled Jones Radio Wales: 10.0.-.11.00. Guest: Bob Harris

Sunday 24th
* Good Morning Sunday BBC radio 2: 7.00 - 9.00 Aled' guests are Julian Lloyd Webber, the London Adventist Chorale, Sarah Brightman and Katherine Jenkins, who is on the phone from Afghanistan.
* Aled Jones Radio Wales: 1.0.-.11.00. Special guest Connie Fisher.
* What the World Needs Now - Light In The Darkness
Having begun their Advent journey at a maternity hospital named after Jesus' mother, Carrie and David Grant finish the series at an infant school named after his father: St Joseph's, Camberwell, in London, where they arrive just in time for the Nativity play.
Later they meet Richard Taylor, whose determination to bring
something positive out of the dreadful murder of his own 10-year old son Damilola, just down the road from Camberwell, in Peckham, has led him to establish an educational charity. He is joined by Sir Trevor Macdonald and by England and Manchester United football star Rio Ferdinand, who have both lent their support to the charity and its aims.
Moya Brennan, the former voice of Clannad, sings a haunting version of In The Bleak Midwinter and explains how her Christian faith has led her to work with the Christian Blind Mission in South America.
While actor Greg Wise reads the biblical Nativity story during a cinematic taxi journey across London, Lucy Winkett finishes her Holy Land pilgrimage in Bethlehem, where she finds inspiration, not so much in the Church of the Nativity, but amongst a group of disabled children and a 21st century Mary who has opened her heart and home to them, at a project run by the UK charity Bible Lands.
Katherine Jenkins and Aled Jones gild the Christmas lily with more beautiful Christmas music.
* Songs of Praise for Christmas Eve - Christmas Spectacular, recorded November 8th at Thursford, Norfolk BBC1 4.50 - 5.25
Aled spends Christmas Eve in Norwich with the cast of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, finding out what the annual show means to the performers and the audience. In a beautiful seasonal setting, the cast perform items from the show, including O Holy Night, and over a thousand local people come together to sing an assortment of carols.
* Carols by Candlelight BBC radio 2: 11 - 12
As Christmas Day approaches Aled presents the Chapter House Choir with a selection of carols old and new from the atmospheric setting of York Minster's 13th Century Chapter House. Musical Director, Stephen Williams.
Monday 25th Christmas Day! Good Morning Christmas! - radio 2, 7.00 - 9.00. Aled presents a special programme for Christmas morning, filled with music from his tuneful guest members of the boys choir LIBERA. He is joined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu giving his Christmas message, Gloria Estefan, Harry Belafonte, cookery expert Simon Hopkinson, and Irish singer, songwriter Eleanor McEvoy will be singing a Christmas song.
Hailing from South London and aged from seven to 16, Libera has featured on the haunting soundtrack of the 2004 film The Merchant Of Venice, serenaded Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, and worked with Pavarotti, Sir Elton John and Icelandic singer Bork. They are joined in the studio by their director, Robert Prizeman
Track 4 is: Mary did you know by: Hayley Westenra
*Friday 29th Friday Night is Music Night: radio 2 7.30 - 9.15: Highlights from the stars who have appeared on FNIMN throughout 2006. Includes: Michael Ball, Nicola Benedetti, Russell Watson, G4, Tony Hadley, Cara Dillon, Josh Groban, Audra McDonald, Joe Brown, Chris de Burgh, Amanda Roocroft, Martin Taylor, Julian Lloyd Webber and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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Sunday 31st:
* Good Morning Sunday BBC radio 2: 7.00am - 9.00am.
The Best of Good Morning Sunday on New Year's Eve, Aled looks back on the highlights of his first year on the show including interviews with singer songwriters Eric Bibb and Ralph McTell, dancer Wayne Sleep who was Aled's first ever GMS interview, comedian Mark Thomas, Holocaust survivor Trudi Silman and Marie Fatayi Williams whose son was a victim of the London bombings.
* Aled Jones Radio Wales: 10.0.-.11.00. Aled picks out his highlights of the series. Guests include Humphrey Lyttleton, Gloria Hunniford, Bonnie Langford and Gerald Scarfe.
* Songs of Praise: BBC1 : 5.30 - 6.15: Aled presents the Songs of Praise Big Sing Party from the Royal Albert Hall. Joining him to welcome in the New Year with a spectacular feast of hymns and songs is Katherine Jenkins, singing Dear Lord and Father of Mankind, and G4, with their version of You'll Never Walk Alone.
A choir of 1000 voices leads the audience in hymns and songs
including Joy to the World, My Jesus my Saviour and Be thou my
vision.
Recorded at the Big Sing at the RAH - September 10th

Whew!! Hopefully Claire and the children catch a glimpse of him on Christmas Day! Laughing

A Very Happy Christmas, Aled! Laughing

xbons · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject:

December appearances up-dated to include all the Christmas appearances (we hope!)

I just hope he can make them all.... Smile

And a Happy Christmas to all Aled fans on here also! Laughing

xbons

Silwa · Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 78 Location: Denbighshire

Thanks Xbons! He is always so busy! I agree - hope he can make them all! Hope he's feeling well!! Have you heard how he's doing?
A happy Christmas to all Aled fans here from me too!!!!
Silwa Very Happy

xaria · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks Xbons. Smile

Even with out the panto and birmingham dates, he's still a very busy boy! At least the SoP programmes are pre-recorded, so that lightens the load slightly! x

xbons · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

Well, if we are honest, Lyndsey, most of it is pre-recorded - only GMS Christmas Eve is live and then GMS New Years Eve, all the rest is pre-recorded. But it all has to be prepared, worked on and recorded sometime, of course. I just hope he can make GMS this coming Sunday. All this week he has been presenting "Performance on 3" every night at 7.30pm on radio 3 also, I just found out too late to add in here, but they are all available on listen again for a week. It has been a week of Christmas Choral classics - see radio 3 website for further info.

I find it interesting to see how many other classicalx artists appear on the programmes Aled is presenting, also!

Silwa · Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 78 Location: Denbighshire

Fantastic to hear Aled on GMS this morning!! He sounds alot more cheerful and says he's getting better!! Hooray!! I hope he continues to heal fast!! Sounds like he will be able to enjoy a fantastic Christmas!!
I agree Xbons - he does have a lot of other ClassicalX artists on his show!! He always seems so great at appreciating others and giving them air time / putting them in the public eye! He is certainly not one to blow his own trumpet!! Amazing guy!!!
I'm looking forward to seeing Aled on SoP tonight!

Brina · Joined: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 44 Location: Sheffield

Might go and have a listen to some of those performances on Radio 3 especially the Messiah one as I sang parts of it at uni this tern and Aled then played some of it this morning on GMS so I've got it in my head now! It was so good to hear Aled back on GMS this morning and he certainly seemed to be enjoying himself which was great. Very Happy

Sian · Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Wales

Hi, has anyone heard how Aled is after the recent health scare Question

xbons · Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Welcome back Sian!

The latest news on GMS on Christmas Eve, I think, was that Aled now has a moonboot (presumably rather than the plaster) but I assume that means he is a bit more mobile. He certainly sounded cheerier also. I don't think he fell down the chimney on Christmas Eve, either, so he didn't make the problem worse then.. Laughing

Other than that - no, we can but hope he will post on the forum again soon. Also he is meant to be sitting in for Sarah Kennedy for 2 weeks on Dawn Patrol on radio 2 (6.00. - 7.30) from Jan 2nd, so we will presumably get info then (and I have to do the January appearance listings, including those.....! Sad

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But he sounds as if matters are improving Very Happy