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Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend!

The Grammy Award winning string quartet, Attacca Quartet pop into the studio to play live and chat to Tom about their new album. One of the most versatile and charismatic string groups around today, they talk to Tom about pushing the boundaries: whether it's through collaborations with artists from Caroline Shaw to Billie Eilish, giving virtual appearances in video games or reinterpreting the classics for audiences.

Charlie Chaplin is one of cinema's great icons - however he's also one of the most undervalued film composers of all time. Chaplin wrote dozens of published songs and composed nearly 900 minutes of film music, he met composers from Rachmaninov to Schoenberg - and when he finally won his first Oscar for Limelight in 1973 it wasn't for acting or directing, it was for the music, all without any musical training. Ahead of a screening with live orchestra of his masterpiece Modern Times, conductor Ben Palmer and Chaplin's grandson Spencer Chaplin talk to Tom about the filmmakers musical legacy and why we should be re-evaluating him as a composer.

Plus the continuation of 大象传媒 Radio 3鈥檚 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century 鈥� a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week we are in 2007: King Torques Hollow Acetate recorded by the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales London based composer Jasper Dommett reflects on a year which saw huge changes in digital technologies, with the launch of the first iPhone and the global roll out of social media platforms.

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