Words and Music

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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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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: The Messenger

The Messenger

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A sequence of poetry, prose and music, with readings by Ewan Bailey and Clare Perkins.

Poetry, prose and music, with readings by Ewan Bailey and Clare Perkins. Including Holst, Orff and John Adams, plus texts by Robert Browning, Anne Bronte and Vera Brittain.

From the message of the Angel Gabriel to the Go-Between and Juliet's nurse in Shakespeare's play - today's programme looks at the bringing of news, of assignations, birth and death and defeat on battlefields.  With music from Gustav Holst and Carl Orff to John Adams, and poems and prose from Robert Browning and Anne Bronte to Vera Brittain. The readers are Ewan Bailey and Clare Perkins.

Readings 
The Go-Between - LP Hartley
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
The Burial at Thebes - Seamus Heaney
Mary and Gabriel - Rupert Brooke 
Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
The Messenger - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gabriel - Adrienne Rich
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë  
Understanding Media - Marshal McLuhan
How They Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent - Robert Browning 
The Electric Michaelangelo - Sarah Hall


Producer: Robyn Read.

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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