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

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Night Waves

Discussion & Talk

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

Night Waves: Michael Burleigh, Sean Sculley and Abstraction, Opera: Do the Words Matter?

Michael Burleigh, Sean Sculley and Abstraction, Opera: Do the Words Matter?

26/05/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Michael Burleigh, Sean Sculley and Abstraction, Opera: Do the Words Matter?

Presented by Rana Mitter. With economist Muhammad Yunus and historian Michael Burleigh.

Presented by Rana Mitter. With economist Muhammad Yunus on his new book, Michael Burleigh on moral perceptions of different sides in World War II and the work of artist Sean Scully.

Rana Mitter talks to the Nobel prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus about his new book, Building Social Business and his ideas as to how capitalism can address pressing human needs. He says the theory and practice of this idea is growing in the business, academic and philanthropic worlds.

Rana talks to the historian Michael Burleigh about the moral perceptions of different sides in the Second World War

Rana and the critic Anna Moszynska consider the work of Sean Scully one of our most acclaimed abstract artists whose new show, the first in London for four years, opens later this week. 

And in that most sublime of musical forms, opera, how much do the words really matter? Rana and his guests the critic Susan Hitch, artistic director of Tete-a-Tete opera company Bill Bankes-Jones and the music academic Roderick Swanston discuss librettists, singing in English and the vexed question of surtitles.

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.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Night Waves

Michael Burleigh, Sean Sculley and Abstraction, Opera: Do the Words Matter?

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3