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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: How to Compose Music

What Is It About Mozart?

How to Compose Music

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, How to Compose Music

Where do you start? How do you carry on? What do you need to know?

Where do you start? How do you carry on? What do you need or not need to know? Tom Service composes some answers.

So you want to write a piece of music? Where do you start? And then how do you carry on? How much music theory do you need to know? Or can you get away with knowing very little about music?
Tom Service offers encouragement with the help of composers Brian Irvine and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

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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