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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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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: The Rebel

The Rebel

25/04/2010

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Words and music about rebels, featuring readings by David Bamber and Gillian Bevan.

David Bamber and Gillian Bevan explore the defiance of rebellion in readings by WB Yeats, Maya Angelou and Philip Larkin; with music by Chopin, Bax, Copland and Leonard Cohen.

David Bamber and Gillian Bevan (readers)

Every Sunday evening Radio 3 brings you a sequence of music, poetry and prose: this week's theme is the Rebel. 

From the Paris Commune to the American teenage rebellion of the 1950s, from home life to public life, David Bamber and Gillian Bevan explore the defiance of personal rebellion and collective uprising in a series of readings, including work by WB Yeats, Philip Larkin, Maya Angelou, Germaine Greer and Brian Moore; and music by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Arnold Bax, Aaron Copland and Leonard Cohen.

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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