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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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Music: Classical

An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

The Listening Service: Speed

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BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Speed

A rollercoaster of a show as Tom experiences how music gets our hearts racing.

Tom rides a rollercoaster with composer Anna Meredith to understand how music gets our hearts racing.

A rollercoaster of a show as  Tom experiences how music gets our hearts racing. How do composers from Bach to Jarvis Cocker manipulate speed in music?  How can a slow movement by Sibelius be 'faster' than 'speedcore' dance music? Tom takes us inside the mechanics of speed, and discovers that Sibelius controls our heart rate in symphonic music in the same way that a DJ in Ibiza does as their set unfolds. Just to put his theories to the test, Tom rides a roller coaster with the composer Anna Meredith who explains how those mighty rides do much the same thing as she does when writing the music designed to get our pulse rate up.

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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