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Sunday Feature: In Search of the Great Music

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Hugh MacDiarmid is arguably
Scotland's greatest 20th-century poet and is second only to Robert Burns as a source of lyrics for Scottish composers. Brian Morton explores the musicality of MacDiarmid's poetry and discovers what part his friendship with composers such as Francis George Scott ,
Ronald Stevenson and Sorabji, played in his recognition as a composer in words. Producer Helen Munro

Contributors

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Hugh MacDiarmid
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Robert Burns
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Brian Morton
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Francis George Scott
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Ronald Stevenson
Producer:
Helen Munro
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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