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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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Music Matters: Nico Muhly, Hans Krasa's Brundibar, Hans Gal - Music Behind Barbed Wire

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07/02/2015

Nico Muhly, Hans Krasa's Brundibar, Hans Gal - Music Behind Barbed Wire

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Nico Muhly, Hans Krasa's Brundibar, Hans Gal - Music Behind Barbed Wire

With Tom Service. Including Nico Muhly, Hans Krasa's Brundibar and Hans Gal's diary.

Tom Service meets composer Nicol Muhly, previews a new production of the children's opera Brundibar and discusses composer Hans Gal's diary as an 'alien enemy' in Britain in 1940.

Tom Service talks to the American composer Nico Muhly, visits rehearsals for a new production of Hans Krasa's opera Brundibar and looks at the diary of Jewish composer Hans Gal who was interned in an 'alien enemy' camp in Britain after fleeing Germany during the war.

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