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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: Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

Tom Service explores the minimalist composer Steve Reich's 1988 piece Different Trains.

Tom explores Steve Reich’s 1988 work Different Trains, its use of sampling and speech melodies, and its evocation of the Holocaust. Our witness is the author and journalist Jonathan Freedland.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

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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