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Public Radio In America

on BBC Radio 3

John Tusa reports on the BBC's American cousin and finds that the public radio is funded not by a licence fee but by fund-raising jamborees and 'sponsor credits' that sound suspiciously like adverts. At the public radio conference in New Orleans, he talks to the characters behind the many stations.

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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