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The Afternoon on Three

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Susan Sharpe.
FAIREST ISLE
1.00 Masque into Opera The second of a three-part series exploring the beginnings of the British operatic tradition.
Bruce Wood introduces excerpts from operatic works belonging to the early years of the Restoration and explains how such works appropriated features of the pre-war court masque.
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
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3.00 A la Mode
Anthony Payne presents music by Vaughan Williams and friends from Hadley to Howells, celebrating the diversity of the new world of expression opened up by the unique modal language they created in early 20th-century Britain.
Producer David Gallagher

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Introduces:
Bruce Wood
Unknown:
Anthony Payne
Music By:
Vaughan Williams
Producer:
David Gallagher
Source: Radio Times

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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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