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    Essential Classics

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    Composer of the Week

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    Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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    Afternoon Concert

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    Concerto no. 3 in E flat major Op.29
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    An all-English programme with works by Walton, Elgar and Britten presented by Tom McKinney

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    Radio 3 in Concert

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    Music Matters

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    The Essay

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    Opera on 3: Saint-Saens’s Samson et Dalila

    Metropolitan Opera production starring Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandrs Antonenko.

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    Radio 3 in Concert, featuring Haydn's Cello Concerto No 1.

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    Adventures in the Big Apple

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    Traveller, with harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

    Mahan picks recordings that challenge conventional wisdom about Bach’s music.

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    Gabriel Prokofiev - My Family and Russia

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    "What is the price of the human soul?"

    Mark Elder conducts Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust. Available in binaural sound.

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    Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert - Novus Quartet plays Respighi and Berg

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    The Alternative Bach, with Mahan Esfahani - Outsiders

    Mahan Esfahani pays tribute to the iconoclasts that challenged ‘polite’ Bach performance.

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    Radio 3 in Concert - Zemlinsky, Rachmaninov and Mozart from Prague

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    The Early Music Show - European Day of Early Music - Liam Byrne and Jonas Nordberg

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    Hear and Now - Cut and Splice 2017

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    Radio 3 in Concert - The Abandoned Lover

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    Late Junction - Benedict Drew’s Mixtape

    Presenter Max Reinhardt invites you to enter the mind of artist Benedict Drew.

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Creativity, performance, debate

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    The Essay - The Meaning of Flowers - Series 2 - Poppies

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    Drama on 3 - Mabinogi

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    Sunday Feature - The Deluxe Edition

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    The Verb - Michael Ondaatje

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    Free Thinking - Childhood faces and fears

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    Free Thinking - Empathy

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    Free Thinking - Jhumpa Lahiri, Valeria Luiselli, George Szirtes

    Two writers and a poet in conversation about language, migrants and personhood.

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Jazz and World

Electrifying Jazz and World music.

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    Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - Carmen McRae

    Geoffrey Smith surveys a rare vocal artist, Carmen McRae.

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    J to Z - Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet in Session

    The Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet in session.

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    Music Planet World Mix - Vodou, lost tapes and the harp of King David

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    Jazz Now - Francois Corneloup

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