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| With Martin Handley.Including at 7.00am | |
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| Mary sits in for Iain Burnside and explores the world of left-handed musicians, composers and performers - who include CPE Bach, Mozart, Scriabin, Ravel and one of the Beatles. | |
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| Michael Berkeley talks to Booker Prize-winning author Kiran Desai, who grew up in India and now lives in America. Her musical choices range from Bach played by Glenn Gould and Pablo Casals to two masters of the guitar, three contrasting pieces of Indian music and the Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora. | |
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| Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He had more than his fair share of difficulties throughout his life: he was blighted by poverty, dismissed from at least three jobs, a victim of highway robbery, robbed by pirates and involved in a scandal which led to a self-imposed exile from his homeland. | |
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| Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of Radio 3 listeners' requests. Including Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice and a quartet movement from the 16-year-old Mozart. | |
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| From the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester Cathedral. | |
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| Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. | |
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| Baritone Hakan Vramsmo and pianist Julius Drake join Stephen Johnson for an exploration of the musical nuances to be found in Schubert's posthumous song-cycle Schwanengesang, settings of poems by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine. | |
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| Series of studio and concert performances by members of Radio 3's 2008 New Generation Artists scheme, which aims to provide musical opportunities to some of the most talented young musicians on the international scene. | |
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| Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Rob Cowan. | |
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| By Leonard Woolf.An English novelist visiting Ceylon falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful native prostitute and buys her out of the brothel where she works in this acutely observed story of desire, expectation and colonial life at the beginning of the 20th century. Read by Alex Jennings. | |
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| Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Rob Cowan presents the second half of tonight's Prom, which features a perennial favourite by Elgar. | |
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| American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of cunning, from Odysseus to Karl Rove, via Machiavelli, Richard Nixon and Margaret Thatcher. He talks to experts, observers and practitioners of the dark arts, from Professor of Classics Edith Hall to Tim Parks, translator of Machiavelli's The Prince. In Italy he meets a commentator who describes cunning as a pathology of intelligence, while former Conservative party treasurer Lord McAlpine sees it more as a 'little nudge here, a little nudge there'. | |
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| A selection of literature and accompanying music. | |
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| Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Dr Charles Burney's musical perambulations through Germany and The Netherlands in the 1770s, as he sought to gather information for his proposed publication of A History of Music on his second European journey. | |
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| With Susan Sharpe.1.00am | |
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| With Susan Sharpe.4.01am | |
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| With Susan Sharpe.5.00am | |
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