Original version

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

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

BBC Proms

Music: Classical

2024

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2010: Proms Plus

BBC Proms: 2010: Proms Plus: Proms Literary Festival - Schiller

Proms Plus

28/08/2010

Proms Literary Festival - Schiller

2010

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2010, Proms Plus, Proms Literary Festival - Schiller

Rana Mitter and guests discuss Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy.

Rana Mitter discusses Friedrich Schiller's great work Ode to Joy, famously set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony, with Billy Bragg, Peter Oswald and David Constantine.

Rana Mitter is joined by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, verse playwright Peter Oswald and poet David Constantine to discuss Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy, famously set to music by Beethoven in his 9th Symphony which will be performed as part of tonight's Prom.

Both Schiller and Beethoven saw Europe torn apart by war and revolution. Our guests tonight discuss how the optimism of the Ode to Joy, Friedrich Schiller's great work on unity and brotherhood, is tempered by an anxiety about the realities of war. The sentiments of the poem have a continuing universal appeal - it was performed by Leonard Bernstein to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, has become the anthem of the European Union, and Billy Bragg created a version to be sung by choirs of English schoolchildren. 

Rana Mitter and guests explore different versions of the Ode to Joy in a Proms Literary Festival programme recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.

Producer: Allegra McIlroy.

BBC Proms: 2010

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.

Discussion & Talk

Documentaries

Performances & Events

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

All broadcasts from the 116th season of the BBC Proms

Series of events providing a context to the 2010 Proms season's music and artists

Series of events providing a fascinating context to the 2010 BBC Proms season's music and artists

Accessibility links

Programme Index

BBC Proms

2010

Proms Plus

Proms Literary Festival - Schiller

Genres

Brand

Series

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3