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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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Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Mark Wigglesworth on the art of conducting.

Tom Service meets the cast of Porgy and Bess at the English National Opera, Mark Wigglesworth's new book The Silent Musician, and composer Heiner Goebbels in Manchester.

Presented by Tom Service 

Tom meets members of the cast of English National Opera's new production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, including Nicole Cabell (Bess), Eric Greene (Porgy) and Nadine Benjamin (Clara).

Also, the conductor Mark Wigglesworth on his new book 'The Silent Musician', and the artist and composer Heiner Goebbels in Manchester on his stage work, part performance, part construction site, 'Everything that happened and would happen', exploring Europe's history over the last hundred years.

Plus, for World Mental Health Day we hear direct testimonies of people who've found solace and hope in 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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