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* The Necessity of Music

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

GEORGE STEINER examines the relation between music and literature. Music plays an increasing role in many people's lives today, while there is a disillusion with language and literature, a retreat from the word. But is music grasping the opportunities offered to it?

Source: Radio Times

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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