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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: Changing Climates

The Essay: Changing Climates: Episode 3: Black Dog

Factual: Science & Nature: Nature & Environment

Changing Climates

Episode 3

Episode 3: Black Dog

Black Dog

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Richard Mabey explores the downside of weather on our imaginations.

Richard Mabey explores the downside of weather on our imaginations and our ordinary experience.

Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather in five blasts. Programme three: Black Dog. 

The down-side of weather on our imaginations and our ordinary experience. Must we be sad sufferers? 

Producer: Tim Dee.

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.

Richard Mabey tells the story of a lifetime of weather

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