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The Listening ServiceEpisodes

  1. What's the point of Listening?

    Tom Service reflects on digital listening and how it impacts our relationship with music.

  2. Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film

    Tom Service discovers the power of using pre-existing classical music in films.

  3. Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets

    Tom Service surveys the 13 extraordinary string quartets of Elizabeth Maconchy.

  4. Songs of the Moon

    Tom Service takes us on a musical voyage to the moon (and back).

  5. 'Pathétique'

    An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service.

  6. Turangalila!

    Tom Service travels deep into Olivier Messiaen's epic Turangalila Symphony.

  7. Jumping Fleas: the rise and rise of the Ukulele

    Tom Service explores the world of the Ukulele with virtuoso Taimane Gardner.

  8. Resolutions

    An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service.

  9. New York, New York!

    Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Tom Service, exploring the music of The Big Apple.

  10. The Trombone Section

    What is the role of the trombone section in orchestras, and why do they come in threes?

  11. The Old Testament of Music

    Tom Service explores JS Bach's extraordinary The Well-Tempered Clavier.

  12. In it to win it

    Tom Service explores the enduring, worldwide appeal of classical music competitions.

  13. Hitting the High Notes

    Tom Service explores the enduring appeal of the tenor voice.

  14. Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4

    Tom explores one of the most popular works of all time, Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor.

  15. The Ethereal

    Tom Service explores the ethereal in music.

  16. Strange Tuning

    An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service.

  17. Gloria!

    Tom Service immerses himself in the joyous world of Poulenc's Gloria.

  18. What's the Point of Symphonies?

    What exactly is a symphony, and are they just a thing of classical music's past?

  19. What's on the programme?

    Tom Service explores the art of concert programming.

  20. Secret Music: Byrd's Masses

    How did William Byrd come to compose three mass settings when celebrating mass was banned?

  21. All American Ives?

    What links baseball, life insurance and American art music? Charles Ives does!

  22. Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium

    Tom Service surrounds himself in Tallis's 40-part Renaissance masterpiece.

  23. Artificial intelligence and music

    Tom Service programmes himself into the matrix of musical artificial intelligence.

  24. Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?

    Tom Service explores Maurice Ravel's Bolero.

  25. All the King's Music

    Tom Service assesses the history of the post of master of the king's (or queen's) music.

  26. Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir

    Tom Service delves into the deep (and often dark) worlds of Judith Weir's dramatic works.

  27. Wild Isles: Wild Music

    Tom Service explores musical evocations of wilderness and the natural world.

  28. Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka

    Tom Service delves into the extraordinary world of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka.

  29. Here Comes the Bride

    Tom Service with a guide to music written for and performed at weddings.

  30. Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril

    Tom Service intrepidly explores Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's one-act symbolist opera.

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