Schedule
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Early
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00:00
Max Richter's Sleep
An all-night performance of Max Richter's eight-hour epic, Sleep.
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Morning
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08:00
Breakfast—Why Music? Weekend: Sunday
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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09:00
Feeling Music
Sarah Walker explores the science behind music's ability to stir the emotions.
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10:30
The Tingle Factor
Exploring the neurological basis of musically generated moments of peak emotion.
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11:30
Music and Memory
Victoria Williamson explores music and memory in works by Beethoven, Franck and Stravinsky
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Afternoon
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13:00
Private Passions—Why Music? Weekend: Frank Wilczek
Michael Berkeley is joined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Frank Wilczek.
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14:00
The Singing Ape
Tom Service and Steven Mithen explore music's origins in human evolutionary development.
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16:00
Sounds of Nature
Chris Watson demonstrates connections between the sounds of nature and human music-making.
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17:00
The Descent of Language
The Clerks led by Edward Wickham discover the links between music and language.
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Evening
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18:30
Why Music? Round-Up
Tom Service and Sarah Walker round up Why Music? with Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Souvenirs de Florence
Music by Tchaikovsky: String Sextet (Souvenir de Florence) and the Violin Concerto.
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21:00
Drama on 3—Chicken Soup with Barley
Arnold Wesker's landmark play portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism. (R)
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22:40
Early Music Late—Charpentier
La Fenice and Vox Luminis perform sacred music by Charpentier in Stockholm.
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23:40
Night Music—Schumann
Music by Schumann: Marchenbilder, Op 113, and Etudes en formes de variations, Op 13.
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Late
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00:30
Through the Night—Rachmaninov's Vespers from Croatia
With Jonathan Swain. Including Rachmaninov Vespers from Croatian Radio-Television Chorus.
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