Schedule
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Early
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00:00
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz—Why Music? The Key to Memory
Geoffrey Smith showcases performers and music recalling people and places from the past.
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01:00
Slow Radio—Slow Radio: Music, Life and Dementia
Music binds together the voices of people living with dementias.
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Morning
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07:00
Breakfast—Why Music? The Key to Memory
Elizabeth Alker presents the Breakfast programme, live from London's Wellcome Collection.
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09:00
Sunday Morning—Music in Memoriam
Live from Wellcome Collection, Sarah Walker presents a selection of memory-related works.
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10:00
Music and Memory—Cerys Matthews and Tom Service simulcast
Radio 3's Tom Service and 6 Music's Cerys Matthews join forces for a special simulcast.
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Afternoon
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12:00
Private Passions—Sir Simon Wessely
Psychiatrist Simon Wessely talks to Michael Berkeley about his favourite music.
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13:00
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert—Why Music? The Key to Memory
Soloists from Aurora play Schubert String Quintet and a world premiere by Martin Suckling.
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14:30
Music and Memory—Animal Memory
Sound recordist Chris Watson muses on memory and sounds from the natural world.
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15:00
The Early Music Show—Why Music? The Key to Memory
Mahan Esfahani presents a live show from London's Wellcome Collection on music and memory.
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16:00
Choir and Organ—Why Music? The Key to Memory
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents four new choral works inspired by people living with dementias.
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17:00
The Listening Service—Earworms
Tom Service finds the maddening musical secrets behind earworms with guest Jarvis Cocker.
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17:30
Words and Music—The Art of Forgetting
Claire Benedict and David Neilson read literary musings on forgetting and forgetfulness.
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Evening
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18:45
Music and Memory—Why Music? Round-Up
Tom Service and Sarah Walker discuss their 'Why Music?' highlights and discoveries.
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19:30
Radio 3 in Concert—Radio France and Montpellier Festival
Ian Skelly presents highlights from the Radio France and Montpellier Festival in July 2017
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21:00
Drama on 3—Song of Myself
Reading of Whitman's poem Song of Myself, with excerpts from Orson Welles's 1953 version. (R)
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22:30
Early Music Late—Cantus Colln
Cantus Colln performs music by composers who lived and wrote through the Thirty Years' War
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23:40
Night Music—15/10/2017
Arnold Bax's Symphony No 5, played by the RSNO conducted by David Lloyd-Jones.
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Late
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00:30
Through the Night—Vadym Kholodenko at the International Chopin Festival
Catriona Young presents a recital by pianist Vadym Kholodenko in Poland.
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