Schedule
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Early
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00:30
Through the Night—Mendelssohn, Panufnik and Dvorak from the Apollon Musagete Quartet
John Shea presents string quartets by Mendelssohn, Panufnik and Dvorak.
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Morning
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06:30
Breakfast—Sound Frontiers: Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Live from London's Southbank Centre, Petroc Trelawny presents the Radio 3 breakfast show.
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09:00
Essential Classics—Sound Frontiers: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Lucian Msamati
With Artist of the Week: Michael Gielen, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 4.
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Afternoon
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Five under 40, Sound Frontiers: Anna Meredith
4/5 Donald Macleod hears from Anna Meredith, who writes and produces electronic music.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—East Neuk Festival 2016, Episode 3
3/4 With the Calidore Quartet in Mendelssohn, plus Christian Zacharias in Schumann and Chopin.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Sound Frontiers: 大象传媒 Performing Groups, Episode 5
5/6 Penny Gore presents Haydn's The Creation, plus music by Mundy, Rossini and Tchaikovsky.
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17:00
In Tune—Sound Frontiers: Samuel West, Lady Maisery, PJ Harvey, Priya Bryant, Emma Johnson, Jess Gillam
As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, Suzy Klein's guests include Samuel West.
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Evening
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Sound Frontiers: Chineke! Orchestra
Chineke! Orchestra performs music by Sibelius, Saint-Georges, Haydn and Dvorak.
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21:55
Three Score and Ten—Edmund Blunden
6/50 Edmund Blunden reads his own poem Concert Party in an archive broadcast from 1957.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Sound Frontiers: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman
Authors Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman are in conversation with Philip Dodd.
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22:45
The Essay—New Generation Thinkers, Strindberg and 'the Woman Question'
4/5 Leah Broad considers 'the woman question' in 19th-century Scandinavian countries.
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23:00
Late Junction—Sound Frontiers: Nick Luscombe Live from Southbank Centre
Live from Southbank Centre, Nick Luscombe with a programme marking 70 years of Radio 3.
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Late
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00:30
Through the Night—Daniele Gatti conducting the French National Orchestra
John Shea presents orchestral works by Mozart, Strauss and Dutilleux.
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