Music Matters

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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 Matters: Live from Southbank Centre

Live from Southbank Centre

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Live from Southbank Centre

As part of BBC Arts' Culture in Quarantine series, Tom Service hosts a special live episode of Music Matters from the Southbank Centre, where Radio 3 will be in residence.

Live from Southbank Centre, Tom Service presents the latest news from around the musical world, and introduces the next instalment from our new series, 'Musicians in our time', where we’ll be following the journeys of personnel from across the musical world as they navigate the next stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. This episode features artists appearing across the two-week residency, including members of Chineke! straight from performing the opening concert.

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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