Schedule
Early
00:00
The Early Music Show—09/02/2008
Catherine Bott looks at some of the many composers employed by the French royal family.(R)
01:00
Through the Night—17/02/2008
Jonathan Swain introduces music by Schumann, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Schubert and Grieg.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—17/02/2008
Including music by Vivaldi, Mozart, Offenbach, Glass, Delibes and Beethoven.
10:00
Sunday Morning—17/02/2008
Iain Burnside and Marcus Du Sautoy explore the connections between music and mathematics.
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Afternoon
12:00
Private Passions—17/02/2008
Academic and political commentator Vernon Bogdanor chooses music by Wagner and Prokofiev.
13:00
The Early Music Show—Le Concert Spirituel
With the director of Le Concert Spirituel, the noted French concert society.
14:00
Radio 3 Requests—17/02/2008
Chi-chi Nwanoku plays Radio 3 listeners' requests including music by Goossens and Respighi
16:00
Choral Evensong—17/02/2008
Live from the Chapel of New College, Oxford.
17:00
Discovering Music—Electronic Music
An exploration of electronic music, with Jonathan Harvey on his Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
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Evening
18:30
Choir and Organ—17/02/2008
David Fanshawe talks to Aled Jones about Tahitian and French Polynesian choral traditions.
20:00
Drama on 3—The Cool Bag Baby, by Katie Hims
A baby in a bag is left outside a cafe in the hope that the owner will give it a home.
21:15
BBC Singers—17/02/2008
Raphael Wallfisch and the BBC Singers perform Richard Rodney Bennett's A Farwell to Arms.
21:30
Sunday Feature—South American Currents, Peru - The Padlocked Town
3/3Writer Daniel Alarcon visits a ghost town and Lima as he explores migration in Peru.
22:15
Words and Music—This Is New York
A reading of poetry accompanied by the music of Dvorak, Adams, Bernstein and others.
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Late
00:00
The Early Music Show—A Day in the Life of Louis XIV
Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of King Louis XIV.(R)
01:00
Through the Night—18/02/2008
Jonathan Swain introduces music by Bernstein, Gershwin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak.
