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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 Opium of the People

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The Opium of the People

13/02/2011

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Texts and music about faith and atheism, with readings by John Sessions and Claire Harry.

Texts and music about faith and atheism, with readings by John Sessions and Claire Harry. Includes Nietzsche, Larkin, Marx and Darwin, plus Beethoven, Strauss, Janacek and Strauss.

John Sessions and Claire Harry read texts on the subject of Faith and Atheism by Nietzsche, Philip Larkin, Lucretius, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin with music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Janacek, Byrd and Mahler.

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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