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  1. The Essay - St Petersburg

    Steve Rosenberg finds a link between 1914’s St. Petersburg and its counterpart of today.

  2. The Essay - Music on the Brink: Vienna

    Bethany Bell evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital.

  3. The Essay - Music on the Brink: Paris.

    Foreign Correspondent Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of Maurice Ravel.

  4. The Essay - Music on the Brink: London

    Emma Jane Kirby considers the idea of London presenting to the wider world in 1914.

  5. The Essay - Music on the Brink: Berlin

    Stephen Evans reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was innovative.

  6. Somme

    Part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink. Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river.

  7. Postcard from Vienna

    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in Vienna just before the outbreak of WW1.

  8. Postcard from St. Petersburg.

    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.

  9. Postcard from Paris

    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from an enthusiastic concert goer in Paris.

  10. Postcard from London

    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from London just before WW1.

  11. Postcard from Berlin

    Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from Berlin charting the music landscape.

  12. Pat Barker

    Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War. Here she selects music.

  13. Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall

    David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name

  14. Modernist Moments - Vienna

    Tom Service with Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11.

  15. Modernist Moments - St Petersburg

    Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds in Alexander Scriabin's final composition

  16. Modernist Moments - Paris

    Tom Service introduces Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics, first performed in 1914.

  17. Modernist Moments - London

    Tom Service takes a litmus test of the classical music goings-on in London in 1914.

  18. Modernist Moments - Berlin

    Tom Service introduces Ferrucio Busoni’s Zwei Tanzstűcke Op. 30a.

  19. Gavrilo Princip's Footprints

    Maria Margaronis probes the Archduke’s assassin, Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip's, legacy.

  20. Free Thinking - Musil's The Man Without Qualities

    Margaret Drabble and William Boyd discuss Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities.

  21. Free Thinking - Liberal England

    Professor Roy Foster and Nick Cohen

  22. Free Thinking - Europe on the Brink of War.

    AS Byatt, Neil Brand, Alexandra Harris and Philipp Blom choose artworks form the period.

  23. Essential Classics - Vienna

    Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.

  24. Essential Classics - St Petersburg.

    Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.

  25. Essential Classics - Paris

    Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt.

  26. Essential Classics - London

    Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.

  27. Essential Classics - Berlin

    Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern.