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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: The Viola - Music's Secret Fire

The Viola - Music's Secret Fire

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, The Viola - Music's Secret Fire

Tom Service explores the viola's secret influence in music.

Tom Service sets out to understand how the often overlooked viola can unlock music's secret fire.

Describing it as 'music's secret fire', Tom Service explores the world of the viola.  Speaking to Lawrence Power, one of the world's great viola players, who has commissioned numerous works for his instrument, and Sally Beamish, viola player and composer, Tom sets out to unlock the key to the viola's elusive sound and to understand how it can drive the energy of the orchestra.

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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