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Spirit of the Age

BBC Radio 3
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John Dowland 's First Book of Songs - published 400 years ago - became one of the most popular and successful collections of its day. Robert Spencer and Michelene Wandor introduce a selection of songs, tracing the influences on Dowland's style, his career as a composer, lutenist and poet, and approaches to interpreting his works in recent years.
Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

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John Dowland
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Robert Spencer
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Michelene Wandor
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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