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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: Experimental & New

Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of composers who defy classification.

Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Unclassified: Benjamin Myers’s Listening Chair

Benjamin Myers’s Listening Chair

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Benjamin Myers’s Listening Chair

New ambient music, plus author Benjamin Myers with a track that transports him.

Elizabeth Alker goes on a sonic wander through the folk horror genre, and author Benjamin Myers is in the Listening Chair.

Benjamin Myers is a writer attracted to the stories and descriptions of, as he puts it, “this strange, eccentric isle of ours.” Hailing from Durham, his work is shot through with the voices and landscapes of the North of England, and often includes dark and comedic accounts of ordinary and extraordinary people in history. Ahead of his latest book, Cuddy - a retelling of the life of hermit Saint Cuthbert of Northumbria - he selects a track that transports him to the shores of Holy Island and the vast acoustics of his home city’s Norman cathedral, a piece of choral music that has enthralled him ever since he first encountered it in the soundtrack to The Wicker Man.

Elsewhere in the show, Elizabeth Alker goes on a sonic wander through mysterious landscapes, serving up ambient sounds from the folk horror genre including new releases from composer and violinist Laura Cannell and electronic artist Alexander Tucker.

Produced by Alexa Kruger 
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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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