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Counterpoint: Series 29

Counterpoint: Series 29: Episode 12: Third Semi-Final, 2015

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Episode 12: Third Semi-Final, 2015

Series 29

Third Semi-Final, 2015

BBC Radio 4 - Counterpoint, Series 29, Third Semi-Final, 2015

Paul Gambaccini chairs the last semi-final of the eclectic music quiz.

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Paul Gambaccini welcomes the last three of 2015's semi-finalists to the Radio Theatre, for the contest that will decide who takes the sole remaining place in the Final.

The questions range across the usual wide spectrum of musical topics and performers - taking in Rodgers & Hart, Rossini, Wagner and John Lennon among many others. The competitors will have to pick an unseen special subject on which to answer individual questions, without having had any chance to prepare. As often, with the standard at the semi-final stage especially high, it could all be decided in the breathless pace of the closing quick-fire round.

The winner returns next week to face the final hurdle in the race for the 29th annual Counterpoint champion's title.

Producer: Paul Bajoria.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Paul Gambaccini hosts the general knowledge music quiz.

Paul Gambaccini hosts the general knowledge music quiz, with contestants from all over the UK competing to become Radio 4's musical mastermind for 2014.

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