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Between the Ears

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To mark the centenary of Marconi's invention of the radio telegraph, Mark Russell presents four radiogenic compositions that look back at real places and times and also question the future of Marconi's dream.
Knoxville: Summer of 1995 The Knoxville of 1915, vividly evoked in James Agee 's prose poem and Samuel Barber 's lyrical setting, collides with the experience and the sounds of modern city life in Knoxville: Summer of 1995, created for the programme. The actions of a furious century and bittersweet impressions of time past are captured in the words of the city's residents and interwoven with Eleanor
Steber's 1950 recording of Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Producer Alan Hall
10 October

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Mark Russell
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James Agee
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Samuel Barber
Producer:
Alan Hall
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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