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Fifty Years of Music Talk

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Percy Scholes gave the first broadcast talk on music on 9 February 1923.
ALEC ROBERTSON looks back on the changing style of music talk as he recalls it. both as a listener and for a time as the BBC's Music Talks Producer.
He includes excerpts from talks by SIR WALFORD DAVIES SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
JOHN IRELAND, CONSTANT LAMBERT and SIR DONALD TOVEY as well as talks by other distinguished musicians and composers. followed by an interlude

Contributors

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Percy Scholes
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Alec Robertson
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Sir Walford Davies
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Sir Thomas Beecham
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Sir Hamilton Harty
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Sir Donald Tovey
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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