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Try to Dig What We All Say

on BBC Radio 3

By any literary critical standards the words of most pop songs are banal, repetitious and pretentious. How then do they exercise their communicative power?
Simon Frith. Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick, suggests some answers.

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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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