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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events

Twenty Minutes: The Fairy's Curse

The Fairy's Curse

10/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, The Fairy's Curse

Author and playwright Lucy Caldwell delves into the fantasy world of fairy tales.

Award-winning Northern Ireland writer Lucy Caldwell delves into the world of fairy tales, finding that these stories shape and define not only our imagination but our daily lives.

Award-winning Northern Ireland author Lucy Caldwell explores the world of fairy tales, which she believes believes developed in her an imagination and thirst to be a writer when she read them as a child. She delves into the fantasy world of her early childhood to find that these tales play an important part in our lives and actually create, enforce and define who we are as people.

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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