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Sunday Feature: Settling the Score

on BBC Radio 3

The first of 20 monthly documentaries surveying the range and diversity of 20th-century music in the words of the people who made it happen. Narrated by Samuel West.
1: 1900 - a Different Country
A century ago, the piano held sway at home and sheet music ruled the streets, radio twinkled in Marconi's ear, and the gramophone was a toy. Britain had no musicians' union and no Copyright Act. How did the musical, social and economic landscape of 1900 look to its inhabitants? Producer Nick Morgan

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Unknown:
Samuel West.
Producer:
Nick Morgan

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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