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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

Tom Service

Lucie Green

Elaine Chew

Hannah Thorne

The Listening Service: In space no-one can hear you sing...

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In space no-one can hear you sing...

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Tom Service explores why space-inspired music sounds the way it does.

Tom Service explores why space-inspired music sounds the way it does, talking to space scientist Lucie Green. Includes pieces by Holst, David Bowie, John Williams and Ligeti.

Space. A place few men or women have gone before ... but plenty of composers have. The universe has inspired musicians for hundreds of years and consequently we all know what space music sounds like. Or do we?

From Holst and David Bowie to John Williams via Ligeti, Thomas Ades and the Beastie Boys, Tom Service dons his spacesuit on a mission to explore why cosmic-inspired music sounds the way it does, and discovers how space science is just as inspired by music as musicians are by space.

En route to the stars, space scientist Lucie Green is on hand to tell Tom the reality of sound in space, while mathematician Elaine Chew helps him uncover the music of the spheres.

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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