40th Anniversary Special
40th Anniversary Special: As Radio 3 celebrates 40 years of broadcasting, Tom Service listens back and investigates how the station has reacted to the outside world and vice-versa.
40th Anniversary Special
As Radio 3 celebrates 40 years of broadcasting, Tom Service listens back over the decades and investigates how the station has reacted to the outside world and vice-versa. With contributions from Nicholas Kenyon, Harrison Birtwistle, Lord Asa Briggs, Robert Ponsonby and Georgina Born.
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- Sat 6 Oct 200712:15BBC Radio 3
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