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Fairest Isle

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The Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces
The ninth part of Roderick Swanston 's monthly history of British music. The opening of the Great
Exhibition in 1851 marks a turning-point in Victorian artistic life; the pioneering
Crystal Palace concerts bring new music from Britain and abroad; and as world war looms, Vaughan Williams finds solace in the past. Producer Antony Pitts

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Roderick Swanston
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Vaughan Williams
Producer:
Antony Pitts
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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