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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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Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Innovative and thought-provoking features on a wide variety of subjects

Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

Between the Ears: Between the Ears at 20: Shadowplay

Between the Ears: Between the Ears at 20: Shadowplay: Part 4: Final Movement: Art Values

Final Movement: Art Values

Part 4 Part 4: Final Movement: Art Values

Between the Ears at 20

BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Between the Ears at 20, Shadowplay, Final Movement: Art Values

Life model Sue Tilley features in an exploration of the value of art.

Sue Tilley, a life model and benefits officer, features in an exploration of the value of art. With a focus on aesthetics, price-tags, high-life and the everyday.

Shadowplay offers a four-part 'symphony of voices' to celebrate 20 years of Between the Ears. It explores the shadows that may fall between the appearance of things and their reality. Making use of the full palette available to the radio producer - documentary, fiction, music, pure sound - four feature-makers address our values, our identities, our romantic inclinations and our sense of worth.

4. Final Movement: Art Values

One of the 'variations' in the first movement of Shadowplay, broadcast earlier this month, introduced the life-model Sue Tilley. A nude portrait of her by Lucian Freud, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, became the most expensive painting by a living artist when it was bought by Roman Abramovich in 2008. In this 'finale', Sue shares more of her life and work (as a life-model, benefits officer and '80s club-scene icon) at the centre of an exploration of the value of art - aesthetics, price-tags, high-life and the everyday.

With a cast of voices from the art world, including Tracey Emin, Ai Wei Wei, Jeff Koons, Robert Hughes, Roy Lichtenstein and Gilbert and George.

Shadowplay has been inspired by the words of TS Eliot:
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow.

Radio 3's showcase for adventurous feature-making was launched in October 1993 with a 'piece for radio', by the composer Ian Gardiner. 'Monument', which was conceived as a kind of London symphony, received the prestigious Prix Italia the following year.

Produced by Alan Hall.
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3.

Between the Ears: Between the Ears at 20

Shadowplay

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.

A series of sonically adventurous features, marking 20 years of Between the Ears

A 'radio symphony' focusing on the difference between appearance and reality

A four-movement 'radio symphony' celebrating 20 years of Between the Ears, focusing on the difference between appearance and reality

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