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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: Sad songs say so much

What you see is what you hear?

Sad songs say so much

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Sad songs say so much

In times of trouble, is sad music what we need?

In 1649, a month after the execution of King Charles I, the distraught composer Thomas Tomkins wrote a piece of music called  "A sad pavan for these distracted times".  
And in our own confusing times, is sad music what we need - or not? Tom Service looks at music's power to heal, to build community and to redefine historical events. With Associate Professor at University College London, Dr Daisy Fancourt, and author of "Singing in the Age of Anxiety", Laura Tunbridge.

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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