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A Land without Music?

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Poet and writer Andrew
Motion begins a daily investigation into what makes English music and poetry so quintessentially English. Today, he looks at romanticism, patriotism and the effects of the First
World War, with music by Parry, Elgar. Gumey, German. Butterworth,
Bridge. Vaughan Williams and Howells, plus poetry from Kipling to Betjeman by way of Hardy, Owen,
Sassoon, Chesterton and others.
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Vaughan Williams
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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