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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: The Further Realm

The Essay: The Further Realm: Episode 4: The Further Realm: Episode 4

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The Further Realm

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Further Realm: Episode 4

The Further Realm: Episode 4

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Andrew celebrates the tome Phantasms of the Living.

Novelist Andrew Martin has long been interested in ghosts and their stories, and he gives them much thought over five essays.

4. Stories, novels, films.. but the author's favourite source for things unreal and unsettling is a huge tome called 'Phantasms of the Living', which he now celebrates..

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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.

Andrew Martin contemplates the ghosts of fact and fiction, plus some in his own life

Novelist Andrew Martin contemplates the ghosts of fact and fiction, plus some in his own life

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