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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: Being Orson

The Essay: Being Orson: Episode 3: Why Citizen Kane Matters

Factual: Life Stories

Being Orson

Episode 3

Episode 3: Why Citizen Kane Matters

Why Citizen Kane Matters

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Film critic Peter Bradshaw gives his personal take on Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.

and proposes a theory on the meaning in the film of the word 'rosebud'.

Five essays by five enthusiasts that follow the rise and fall of controversial Renaissance man, Orson Welles. 

Film critic Peter Bradshaw shares his own Rosebud theory in his personal take on Citizen Kane.

Produced by Gemma Jenkins.

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.

Discussing actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario Orson Welles

Series of commentaries about the life of Orson Welles, who was an actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario

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