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The podcast for classical newbies. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here.

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BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.

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Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too. Music, eclectic playlists and chat, with a new guest every week.

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The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.

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Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.

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Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

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Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

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In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.

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Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Each week an expert and enthusiast brings along a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece. They explore the music and the different ways of performing it, ending with a recommendation for your library

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The Verb

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Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance

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Music Matters

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The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters

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Slow Radio

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An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow. Listen to the sounds of birds, mountain climbing, monks chatting as you go about your day. A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.

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The Listening Service

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Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

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Sound of Cinema

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Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Sport's Strangest Crimes

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When sport collides with true crime.

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Influenced

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How digital tech shapes our behaviour.

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The Music & Meditation Podcast

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Join Izzy Judd to escape the noise of daily life through the power of music and meditation in the ultimate therapeutic podcast. Experience guided meditations covering themes such as reducing stress levels to making peace with imperfections from a range of experts enhanced by an immersive classical soundtrack. And if you want the guided meditations without the chat, each one is available separately as a Ten Minute Meditation.

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BBC Learning English Drama

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Dramas for English language learners from BBC World Service. Improve your English with retellings of stories classic and new. Each episode is between 6 and 10 minutes long.

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Uncanny

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From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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The Early Music Show

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An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

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Music Planet: Road Trip

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Discover the world with music. Join local experts for a sonic journey around the globe.

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Georgian Pleasures

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Key pieces of music from the Georgian period explored by Suzy Klein and Christian Curnyn. From BBC Radio 3

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Sound of Gaming

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Radio 3's regular jaunt into the latest, brightest and best gaming soundtracks.

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BBC Proms Music Guide

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In this set of free downloads, BBC Radio 3 presenters introduce a key composer and work featured in BBC Prom concerts.

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Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics

BBC Radio 3

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Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.

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Between the Ears

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Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

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Radio 3 Opera Guides

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BBC Radio 3 Opera guides

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Britten 100

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Britten 100. Highlights from Radio 3’s Britten centenary weekend in Aldeburgh with special features, interviews and on location reports recorded in Suffolk.

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Radio 3's Piano A to Z

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BBC Radio 3's Piano A to Z

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Commonwealth Connections

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World music from the Commonwealth countries for BBC Radio 3’s World on 3, Fridays. Musicians, sportspeople and cultural figures introduce music recorded on location.

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Radio 3’s Composers’ Rooms

BBC Radio 3

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.

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Ravel Revealed

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Maurice Ravel revealed through guides to his work and life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Ravel Day, 7 March 2014.

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The Lebrecht Interview

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Classical music critic Norman Lebrecht talks to major figures in the field

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My Classical Favourites

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Discover classical music loved by celebrated guests from all walks of life. To hear the music in full go to BBC Playlister.

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Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition

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The final shortlist of winning carols in the Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition. Composed by listeners, a setting of a poem by Susan Hill specially written for Radio 3

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Jazz Library

BBC Radio 3

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Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

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Unplucked

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How do you get into the biggest classical music festival in the world? Follow composer and comedian Vikki Stone as she unbuttons the BBC Proms and asks the questions everyone else is afraid to ask.

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Modern Muses

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Creative collaborations in new music. A series where the world’s leading composers and performers explain how they cooperate in the creation of new work.

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Saturday Classics

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A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.

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Sound of Dance

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Katie Derham explores the relationship between music and dance in a variety of genres.

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Music and Culture of WW1

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Highlights of BBC Radio 3’s special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.

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The Briefing Room

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David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news

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When You’re Smiling: A Leicester City Podcast

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The definitive Blue Army podcast with dedicated and in-depth analysis on all things Leicester City. Catch current and former Foxes stars, top guests and access right to the beating heart of King Power Stadium. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leicester.

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Understand

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A simple guide to the US 2024 election.

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The In Tune A-Z of Opera

BBC Radio 3

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A comprehensive guide to the language of opera with contributions from singers, conductors, directors and vocal coaches. From BBC Radio 3, May 2010

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Eras

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The stories of the biggest artists in the world. We delve deep into the BBC archive and speak to the people who were there, as we look back on their most iconic eras.

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Kiri's 20 Favourite Voices

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Drawing from her amazing career Dame Kiri selects her 20 favourite voices, including not only Classical but pop singers too, illustrating with music why they make her top list.

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Time Travellers

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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales gathered from the corners of history by an intrepid band of time travelling correspondents, with a new theme every week.

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Introducing Uncanny USA 4:22

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Danny will be criss-crossing America, from New York to New Orleans, to interview witnesses about experiences that seem to defy logical explanation, with help from a new team of US paranormal experts and sceptics.By BBC Radio 4

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India: Is democracy under threat? 29:10

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2024 is the year of elections. According to one estimate just under 50% of all the people on earth live in countries where by December 31st there will have been a national vote. In terms of population size there are none bigger than the six week exercise that got underway last Friday. The world’s biggest democracy - India - has gone to the polls an…

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Southampton & Season Ticket Prices 43:03

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Hear from Conor Coady & Hamza Choudhury as Owynn is joined by Pipes & City fan Kate.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Mahler's Kindertotenlieder 42:29

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Iain Burnside chooses his favourite recording of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.By BBC Radio 3

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Introducing Money Gone 2:42

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By Ed Sellek. Valentine’s Day 2025. The UK awakes to financial catastrophe and no one can access any money. As the country descends into chaos, some see opportunity, but the powerful want to cling to the status quo. The fate of the country’s economy now lies in the hands of the UK’s Prime Minister. A fast-paced satirical drama starring Robert Bathu…

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ABBA: 5. ABBA Voyage 29:42

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After establishing themselves as one of music’s pop giants, the ABBA legacy continues in an exciting new chapter - ABBA Voyage. The futuristic and visually groundbreaking show ignites a new love for ABBA, once again. In Episode 5, Sara Cox sits down with the producers of ABBA Voyage - Svana Gisla and Ludvig Andersson (who is also Benny from the ban…

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Post-Match: Arsenal Women 3-0 Leicester City Women 14:01

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Hear from Jennifer Foster & Sam Tierney after defeat in the capital for the Foxes.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Sathnam Sanghera 49:46

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Sathnam Sanghera is a best-selling writer and journalist. He grew up in Wolverhampton to Punjabi parents in a home where, in his words, “no one read books or owned them, let alone wrote them”. When he started school, he couldn’t speak English but he went to graduate from Cambridge University with a first-class degree in English Language and Literat…

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Post Match: Leicester City 2-1 West Bromwich Albion 27:03

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Post match analysis with Matt Piper plus reaction from City boss Enzo Maresca.By BBC Radio Leicester

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The WBA Preview 29:30

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Hear from Enzo Maresca & Ricardo as Owynn Palmer-Atkin is joined by Rob Tanner.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) 1:06:44

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Donald Macleod explores the key influences and music of Edvard Greig. Donald Macleod looks at the people and places that had a significant impact on Edvard Grieg’s life and work, meeting Norwegian fiddlers, folksong collectors and nationalist firebrands along the way. From Henrik Ibsen, who commissioned Grieg to write his most famous work, to the c…

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Alice in Wonderland: Part 4: The White Rabbit's house 5:24

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Alice is too big to fit inside the White Rabbit's house. FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE:Visit our website✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglishFollow us✔️https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English✔️ News Review✔️ The English We Speak They're all available by s…

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Bat Girls 44:01

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by Kamal Kaan and Mary CooperEpisode 1 - Naila's Story Naila is a bright teenager in Bradford. Her parents want her to go to university to study medicine, and they don't want any distractions. But Naila loves cricket, and gets involved in the nascent school female cricket team. Three of the girls become firm friends and call themselves 'Bat Girls'.…

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The Curious Case of Conor Coady 30:18

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Hear from Abdul Fatawu as Owynn is joined by Steve Howard and City fan Kate.By BBC Radio Leicester

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What does Iran want? 27:43

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David Aaronovitch and guests explore the thinking behind Iran's decision to attack Israel and ask what the short and long term aims of the Iranian regime are. Guests: Shashank Joshi, Defence editor at The EconomistAli Vaez, Iran Project Director at International Crisis GroupDr Roxane Farmanfarmaian, lecturer specialising in the politics of Iran and…

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5. Island of Enchantment 25:00

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In the fifth episode, as the WWE takes over the American market, Bruiser turns to the even more high octane and raw world of wrestling in Puerto Rico - where he once again encounters Invader One, a local hero who he’s feuded with before. Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestli…

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Time for a Plan B? 35:33

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Hear from James Justin as Owynn & Pipes are joined by tactical guru Dominic Wells.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Brahms' 3rd Symphony 43:11

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Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Brahms' 3rd Symphony.By BBC Radio 3

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Post Match: Tottenham Hotspur Women 2-1 Leicester City Women (AET) 29:13

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Post match analysis with Chloe Jones plus reaction from Foxes manager Jennifer Foster.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Professor Sue Black 53:03

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Professor Lady Sue Black is one of the world’s leading forensic scientists. She says “I have never been spooked by the dead. It is the living who terrify me. The dead are much more predictable and co-operative.”Her painstaking work and expertise mean she can work out how people have met their end, and police forces, the Foreign Office and the UN ha…

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Post Match: Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Leicester City 55:43

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Post match analysis with Matt Piper plus reaction from City boss Enzo Maresca.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) 1:09:04

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Johannes Brahms, the bearded and magisterial Romantic composer, could certainly do grandeur when required. But really, he was more interested in what music meant in ordinary life - how it can whisper, joke and console. He was a man who tried to find a place to belong all his life, wrote for the people closest to him, and that fondness is writ large…

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Alice in Wonderland: Part 3: The Caucus-race 5:49

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Alice meets all sorts of creatures as she swims around in a pool of her tears. For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English✔️ News Review✔️ The English We Speak They're all available by searching in your podcast app.…

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Master Mason 44:34

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The master mason is dead; long live the master mason. Lizzy Mansfield's comedy takes us back to the golden age of cathedral building and the moment humble stonemason Bill Mason gets the call. When the Bishop asks, you don't say no. But is he the one really calling the shots? Bill ..... Edward HoggPenelope ..... Laura ElphinstoneEliza ..... Kathryn …

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12/04/2024 13:45

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During his less than stellar acting career Michael Goldfarb spent a lot of time watching from the wings waiting to go on for his single scene. In this series, he talks about the plays he appeared in, their histories, and the lives of the actors who performed them. In this essay, he's understudying in K2: a play about two climbers trapped on an ice …

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Preparation for a performance on stage goes beyond just memorising lines, learning blocking and hoping it will be alright on the night. A diligent actor studies the history of the period of the play, learns about the intentions of the playwright, and absorbs from older colleagues knowledge of how the play has been done in the past. In his less than…

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The Plymouth Preview 37:20

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Hear from Enzo Maresca & Ricardo as Owynn is joined by Matty Fryatt ahead of MD42.By BBC Radio Leicester

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What's happened to Hamas? 28:43

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Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to “eliminate” Hamas but after six months of death and destruction in Gaza what do we know about their status? David Aaronovitch talks to: Jennifer Jefferis, Teaching Professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies program and author of Hamas: Terrorism, Governance, and its Future in Middle …

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Left the Chat: No 6. The Telegram War 28:54

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The encrypted messaging app Telegram is haunted by a single question - if it really is as secure as it claims to be, why does Vladimir Putin allow it to be used in Russia? And should Russian dissidents, independent journalists and Ukrainian soldiers use this Wild West of an app, where you can find everything from porn to drugs to faked propaganda v…

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Left the Chat: No 5. Thug Shaker Central 28:50

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When investigative journalist Aric Toler saw a handful of supposedly fake classified documents online, he had a hunch - what if they were real? The only way to find out was to hunt for the original source. It was a journey that took him through the deep internet, beyond the reach of search engines. He scoured through chat forums about SpongeBob Squ…

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4. Bruised Dick 41:26

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Warning: This episode contains strong language. In the fourth episode, the increasingly confident Bruiser Brody starts clashing with managers and promoters, earning a wild card reputation that puts him in danger. Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Samm…

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Left The Chat: No 4. I Married a ChatBot 28:36

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After years of bad dates and toxic relationships, Chris finally found love - with a chatbot called Emma. Is this the future of digital love, or is Chris caught in an illusion? In this episode focusing on how instant messages have changed our love lives, Helen also uncovers the heart warming story of the first couple to marry after reconnecting on F…

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Post Match: Millwall 1-0 Leicester 26:52

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Post-match analysis with Matty Fryatt plus reaction from City boss Enzo Maresca.By BBC Radio Leicester

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'Treat Every Game Like It's Our Last' 41:20

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Owynn, Pipes and actor Tom Hendryck hear from Stephy Mavadidi before the game at MillwallBy BBC Radio Leicester

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Vaughan Williams's Symphony no.1 'A Sea Symphony'. 46:14

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David Owen Norris chooses his favourite version of Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony.By BBC Radio 3

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David Mitchell 51:51

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David Mitchell is the author of nine time-traversing, genre-bending novels. His first, Ghostwritten, was published 25 years ago, and his third, Cloud Atlas, made his name around the world, and later became a Hollywood film. It follows six interlocking lives in an ambitious narrative that circles the globe and travels through time from 19th-century …

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Post Match: Leicester City 2-1 Birmingham City 38:01

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Post match analysis with Matt Piper plus reaction from City boss Enzo Maresca.By BBC Radio Leicester

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The Birmingham City Preview 27:05

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Hear from Enzo Maresca as Owynn is joined by Jack Rafferty.By BBC Radio Leicester

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Mozart's Grand Tour 1:05:23

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Donald Macleod follows Mozart and his family on an ambitious European adventure. When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was just seven years old, he and his family set out on an epic journey. Their goal: to travel through Europe and become famous; bringing their awesomely talented children to concert halls, homes and royal palaces across Germany, Belgium, Fr…

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Alice in Wonderland: Part 2: The pool of tears 5:22

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Alice keeps getting bigger… and smaller. No wonder she cries a pool of tears! For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com LIKE PODCASTS?Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English✔️ News Review✔️ The English We Speak They're all available by searching in your podcast app.…

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ABBA: 1. The Road to Waterloo 28:17

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They’re famous for their marriages, divorces, and impossibly perfect pop songs. But how much do you really know about ABBA? In this series, Sara Cox is your guide to Sweden’s biggest musical export. When Benny, Bjorn, Agnetha and Anni-Frid won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, their lives changed forever. But that win didn’t come easy. Because the …

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ABBA: 3. Said and Done 28:21

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It’s 1979, and ABBA are one of the world’s most famous bands. But beneath their successful surface, things are changing. In Episode 3, Sara Cox follows the band to the peak of their career. As ABBA release some of their most iconic and sophisticated music, their personal relationships come under incredible strain. The band play on - but how long ca…

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