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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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The Essay Podcast

The Essay

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: New Mystery Plays

The Essay: New Mystery Plays: Episode 1: Creation, by Sean Buckley

New Mystery Plays

Episode 1

Episode 1: Creation, by Sean Buckley

Creation, by Sean Buckley

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A setting of the Creation in the mind of a coma victim, creating the world anew.

Sean Buckley sets The Creation in the mind of a coma victim, creating the world anew.

by Sean Buckley. New Mystery Plays revisits stories from the Old Testament. Sean Buckley sets The Creation in the mind of a coma victim, creating the world anew. 

Jo ..... Alex Tregear
Nurse ..... Jonathan Forbes
Dad ..... Sean Baker
Young Jo ..... Harper Bone

Sound by Peter Ringrose
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

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.

Series of new dramas updating stories from the Old Testament to contemporary settings

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