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Essential Classics

Music: Classical

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Friday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edgar Wallace and the Dictaphone, Tavener's Song for Athene

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20/10/2017

Friday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edgar Wallace and the Dictaphone, Tavener's Song for Athene

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edgar Wallace and the Dictaphone, Tavener's Song for Athenesearch

Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

Suzy Klein's guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

Essential Classics with Suzy Klein

Suzy takes us through the morning with the best in classical music. 

0930 Suzy explores potential companion pieces for John Tavener's 'Song for Athene', the composer's best known choral work written in 1993 and famously performed at Princess Diana's funeral. If someone likes this piece, what should they listen to next? 

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
Matthew Sweet unravels a mystery involving a crime writer and some dictaphones

1050 Actor, director and playwright, the multi-talented Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.
Today he picks the Jamaican poet Claude McKay's poem 'If We Must Die'.

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.

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