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The Envy of the World

on BBC Radio 3

Culture's Not for Us. In the last of three documentaries charting the history of the Third Programme and Radio 3, Humphrey Carpenter investigates the impact of the 1969 announcement that the Third
Programme would be abolished, and examines the changing sound of the programmes. Some of the Third's most famous voices - including
Richard Baker , Cormac Rigby and Tom Crowe - reflect on changing styles behind the microphone. And former controllers including Harman Grisewood , Stephen Hearst , Ian Mcintyre and John Drummond consider two questions which have provoked much debate over the past 50 years: what is the role of a cultural radio network, and who are its listeners? Repeat

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Humphrey Carpenter
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Richard Baker
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Cormac Rigby
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Tom Crowe
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Harman Grisewood
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Stephen Hearst
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Ian McIntyre
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John Drummond

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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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