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The Early Music Show

BBC Radio 3
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Handel on the Thames. Lucie Skeaping explores the background to one of the most enduring and best-loved pieces of music from the Baroque, Handel's Water Music, composed for a trip along the Thames taken by King George I and his entourage on a hot July evening in 1717.

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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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