Power of 3
David Hendy illustrates 70 significant moments in the Third Programme's history.
Power of 3: Sam Lee and Alice Zawadski accompany a nightingale (70/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Under Milk Wood - one of British broadcasting’s creative pinnacles (69/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Sounds Interesting puts progressive rock on Radio 3 (68/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Deryck Cooke realises Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony (67/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Radio 3 embraces journalism with a vast series on the Vietnam War (66/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: The first appearance by Pierre Boulez on the Third Programme (65/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Radio 3 commissions a new Christmas Carol via a public competition (64/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Mainly for Pleasure and the question of 'drive time' scheduling (63/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: The Bosnian conflict as seen through the prism of poetry (62/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Rowan Atkinson is Barry Good, the Pope of Pop (61/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Through the power of broadcasting, a largely neglected composer is ushered into the Baroque repertoire (60/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Mixing It meets musicians who push the boundaries of music (59/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: A poignant broadcast of Louis MacNeice's final radio play (58/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn offers a savage denunciation of the West (57/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: The Third Programme and Benjamin Britten (56/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: A sweeping panorama of America in the Atomic Age (55/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: The unusual world premiere of a piece by a composer nobody has ever heard of (54/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Wagner's Ring Cycle and a controversial 1990s production (53/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Japan Season offers a comprehensive exploration of Japanese culture (52/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: The Third programme broadcasts its first ever jazz commission (51/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Festival of Britain - Cecil Day Lewis translates Vergil's Aeneid for the Third Programme (50/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Radio 3 introduces a request show, 'Your Concert Choice' (49/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Radio 3 investigates the 'Minneapolis Sound' as part of a whole weekend broadcast from the American Midwest (48/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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Power of 3: Samuel Beckett writes a radio play for The Third Programme (47/70)
Media historian Prof. David Hendy looks at significant moments in Radio 3’s history.
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