Schedule
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Early
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00:30
Through the Night—Schubert's Schwanengesang
John Shea presents a concert from the 2015 Vilabertran Schubertiade.
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Morning
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06:30
Breakfast—Thursday - Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny presents the breakfast show with a new work by Composer in 3 Matthew Kaner
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09:00
Essential Classics—Thursday - Sarah Walker with Ken Loach
Artists of the Week: Netherlands Chamber Choir, featured playing Kodaly's Missa Brevis.
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Afternoon
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12:00
Composer of the Week—Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Stars and Stripes
4/5 Donald Macleod follows Martinu's perilous flight to America from war-torn Europe.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Verbier Festival 2016, Episode 3
3/4 Music by Mozart and Poulenc performed at the 2016 Verbier Festival.
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14:00
Afternoon Concert—Thursday Opera Matinee, Handel - Berenice
Katie Derham presents a performance of Handel's opera Berenice from Gottingen.
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16:30
In Tune—Martin Taylor, Semyon Bychkov, Mhairi Lawson
Sean Rafferty's guests include Martin Taylor, Semyon Bychkov and Mhairi Lawson.
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Evening
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18:30
Composer of the Week—Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Stars and Stripes
4/5 Donald Macleod follows Martinu's perilous flight to America from war-torn Europe.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Melvyn Tan at Wigmore Hall - Beethoven, Czerny, Liszt
Live from Wigmore Hall, Melvyn Tan performs piano music by Beethoven, Czerny and Liszt.
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21:55
Three Score and Ten—Sylvia Plath
11/50 In an archive recording first broadcast in 1963, Sylvia Plath reads her poem Daddy.
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22:00
Free Thinking—Caravaggio, Bob Dylan, Dario Fo, Lenin's Train Journey
Including the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo's plays and Caravaggio's art.
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22:45
The Essay—Brick, Stone, Glass, Steel, Queensferry Crossing, Scotland
4/5 Dr Gavin Francis on the largest balanced cantilever bridge ever to be built.
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23:00
Late Junction—Max Reinhardt with Peter Strickland's Mixtape
Max Reinhardt is joined by film director Peter Strickland, who presents his own mixtape.
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Late
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00:30
Through the Night—Borodin and Tchaikovsky String Quartets
John Shea presents a 70th anniversary concert given by the Borodin Quartet in Russia.
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