BBC Radio 3

Sunday Features / documentaries

From Convent to Concert Hall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ldftk/p02ldf9f

Dawn on the Somme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j3m4w

The Ruhleben Legacy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013y8

Special Features

Shakespeare and Music (with Samuel West from the RSC): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0785zm9

Britten and the Radio (from Snape Maltings): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09c0nyb

Building a Library

The music of Ethel Smyth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vsb4l

On Britten’s Winter Words: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2r2ck

On Elgar recordings: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00009zn

Composer of the Week

On Ivor Gurney: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021ywxx

On composers of the First World War: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048z9c1

Proms plus

On Frank Bridge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e3r6v2?lang=ga

On Vaughan Williams: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep8gfx

Discussing Vaughan Williams’ London Symphony with Stephen Johnson and Louise Fryer in the Proms, 2013: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0388pgp

On Lili Boulanger and Elgar (BBC World Service): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bf1jc0

In Tune

Dr Kate Kennedy on the music landscape on the brink of WW1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01np7fw

LONDON – fictional postcard set in 1914 by Dr Kate Kennedy, read by Jonathan Pryce: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pk3yw

Other

Radio 3 tells story of World War One through its music: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/r3-ww1

 

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