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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: Neptune's Kingdom

Neptune's Kingdom

21/07/2013

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Texts and music evoking the undersea world. Readers: Emily Taaffe and Nicholas Farrell.

Texts and music evoking the undersea world, with readings by Emily Taaffe and Nicholas Farrell. With Rita Dove, Shakespeare and Charles Kingsley, plus Britten, Hovhaness and Holst.

The undersea world is evoked in a sequence of words and music. Emily Taaffe and Nicholas Farrell read poetry and prose by Rita Dove, William Shakespeare and Charles Kingsley and the submarine music is provided by Britten, Hovhaness and Holst.

Songs of mackerel shoals and whale tales swell the ocean and the seas pick clean the bones of the drowned. There's beauty, death and the sea-change of new life here in the deep.

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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