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Paul Gambaccini presents radio's widest-ranging music quiz.

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Paul Gambaccini returns with the 30th series of the general knowledge music quiz.

The wide-ranging music quiz celebrates its thirtieth year on Radio 4, with Paul Gambaccini in the questionmaster's chair.

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Paul Gambaccini returns with the 30th anniversary series of the perennial music quiz, with questions ranging across every musical genre.

Whether your interest is in the Baroque, opera, choral music, the romantic symphony, the golden age of Hollywood, traditional and modern jazz, film music and TV themes or the rock and pop greats of the past fifty years, there's always something in Counterpoint to suit your taste. In this series 27 competitors from around the UK will be showing off the breadth of their musical knowledge, as well as hoping for some specialist questions that suit their expertise. After the knockout rounds, three of them will end up in the Final, which will come from the 2016 BBC Proms to mark the programme's 30th birthday.

This year's first heat comes from the BBC's Maida Vale studios and features music lovers from Essex, Kent and Lancashire.

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 2016.

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