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Professor Alice Roberts
Episode 2 of 5
In the second of this week's essays about music's civilising force, Professor Alice Roberts looks back for answers in the history of human development.
Professor Alice Roberts chooses to look thousands of years back in human and pre-human history for signs and signals that music was not so much a civilising as a humanising force. Her exploration takes her to ancient archaeological sites where traces of early instruments have been found and the evidence of shifts and re-shapings in our pre-hominid ancestors which suggest some kind of musical interaction long before language developed.
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Tue 27 Mar 201822:45
BBC Radio 3
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- Tue 27 Mar 201822:45BBC Radio 3
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