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- The February House
When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.
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📻 Prof @paulinefairclough.bsky.social (Music) joins Nick Mohammed on BBC Radio 3 #SundayFeature to talk about how the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was received in Britain
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- New Generation Thinkers: At Home with Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas
Sophie Oliver guides us inside the remarkable home of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas.
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- Shostakovich and Us
Nick Mohammed explores Russian composer Shostakovich's encounters with UK audiences.
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- Richard Strauss and Us
Nick Mohammed traces how British audiences first responded to composer Richard Strauss.
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- Bartok and Us
Nick Mohammed traces the first British encounters with Hungarian composer Bela Bartok.
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- Samurai culture
Samurai: warrior or poet and musician? Chris Harding visits a British Museum exhibition.
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- The "new Josephine Baker"
Adjoa Osei uncovers the story of performer spy Miss Bartira whose act landed her in prison
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- Ralph Vaughan Williams and fenland music
Poet Jade Cuttle visits the landscape which inspired a young Vaughan Williams
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- Music and miscarriage
Sabina Dosani, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, explores music and childbirth
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- The Eglantine Table at Hardwick Hall
Ellie Chan visits Hardwick Hall in search of a fascinating relic of Tudor musical culture.
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- The Music Man for Africa
A celebration of the life and work of broadcaster and cultural ambassador Leo Sarkisian.
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- New Music New York
Richard King explores the conditions for musical creativity in New York City in the 1970s.
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"Which do you choose; staging Peer Gynt with the original music... or DEATH?" 🤣 #bbcradio3 #SundayFeature
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- Reeking of Cowpats - Peer Gynt
150 years on, how have Ibsen’s play and Grieg’s incidental music stood the test of time?
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- Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan exiled by the GDR
Why was Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan - exiled from East Germany?
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- One Singular Sensation
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a musical theatre classic, 'A Chorus Line'.
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- Taped letters
How exchanging cassette tapes connected communities world wide in the pre-digital age.
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James MacMillan, St Salvator’s Chapel Choir & Claire Innes-Hopkins:
🎵 O Radiant Dawn
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- The Russia I Lost
Tatyana Movshevich explores her Russian cultural past.
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- James Blades - Pandemonium of the One-Man Band
A journey through the life and work of James Blades, famous 20th-century percussionist.
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- The Great Egyptian Music Mystery
Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts
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- When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
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- Sir Henry Unton's Music
Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.
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- The Waltz Paradox
John Suchet unlocks the complex makeup of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II.
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- Requiems for the Firestorm - Dresden's Musical Aftermath
Katja Hoyer explores many musics created in the aftermath of Dresden's fiery destruction.
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- The Cello and the Nightingale
Kate Kennedy examines the events surrounding one of the BBC's first outside broadcasts.
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- The Artificial Composer - Music and AI
Composer Tarik O'Regan explores the collision of classical music and AI in Silicon Valley.
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- Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music
The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.
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- The Man Who Played The Kremlin's Tune
Lucy Ash uncovers the murky story of Tikhon Khrennikov, Stalin’s musical enforcer.
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