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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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Unclassified

Music: Classical: Experimental & New

Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of composers who defy classification.

Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Unclassified: This Magical Hour

Music: Classical

This Magical Hour

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, This Magical Hour

Elizabeth Alker with a new series of music by composers who defy classification.

Elizabeth Alker with a new series of music by an exciting generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Following the great success of the first series of her late night show "Unclassified", Elizabeth Alker returns with another run of six programmes. 

Settling back into this magical last hour, the last one of of the weekend, Elizabeth will usher listeners past midnight with more blissful, brand new and unconventional music. 

The first ever radio play of a brand new work for solo violin by Edmund Finnis, performed by Daniel Pioro brings shimmering, cyclical patterns of sound moving in and out of focus, James McVinnie creates a musical trick with a 17th Century organ, Anna Meredith's response to Vivaldi's The Seasons results in a sublime call and response through the centuries and new work from Aphex Twin whets the appetite for a rare performance in Bilbao. 

"Unclassified" is a home for composers who are exploring new musical terrain and bringing back all kinds of shimmery, glitchy, expansive and joyful sounds from their sonic travels. Musicians who might have formal classical training or who are inspired by traditional classical music but who are blurring the lines between what is classical music and what is pop, rock or new experimental music.

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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