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Radio 3 to broadcast Choral Evensong twice a week
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 is to broadcast Choral Evensong live on Wednesdays at
4.00pm from mid-September 2008, with a repeat on Sunday afternoon.
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It
is currently relayed live on Sundays at 4.00pm. Ìý
Roger Wright, Controller, Radio 3, said:
"We are pleased to be able to include two broadcasts of Choral
Evensong from September.
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"Scheduling it on Sundays has brought new
listeners to the live broadcasts, though others have missed it on
Wednesday afternoons.
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"Airing it live on Wednesday and repeating it
on Sunday will offer audiences a choice for this ever-popular part
of the Radio 3 schedule."
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During its long broadcast history, Choral Evensong has been heard
on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. At first the service
lasted only 30 minutes; it has also been broadcast at 45 and 50
minutes. For a short while in 1970 the service was broadcast
monthly not weekly.
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The broadcast was originally transmitted on
the National Programme, and then after the war successively on the
Home Service, Radio 4 and Radio 3, returning to Radio 4 for some
years in the late Seventies.
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Nowadays the popular Listen Again
facility on the Radio 3 website – bbc.co.uk/radio3 – means that the weekly broadcast
can be heard at any time for seven days after transmission.
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This Sunday's broadcast comes from St Paul's Cathedral.
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Forthcoming highlights include a live Ash Wednesday service from
St Alban's Cathedral; Palm Sunday from St George's Chapel, Windsor
Castle; Easter Sunday from Winchester Cathedral and from St Paul's
Outside the Walls, Rome, on 6 April. Ìý
Notes to Editors
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On some occasions the Sunday broadcast will not be a direct repeat
of the Wednesday programme, for example, Easter Day. Ìý
Radio 3 Publicity
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