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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

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: Hawthorn Trees and Metal Birds

Hawthorn Trees and Metal Birds

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Hawthorn Trees and Metal Birds

Elizabeth Alker selects music from the ambient and experimental music realms.

Sounds inspired by birds and hawthorn trees in a selection of ambient and experimental music from Elizabeth Alker.

Elizabeth Alker shares sounds inspired by birds and hawthorn trees in a mix of ambient and experimental music selections. Expect gentle bursts of sounds from the Welsh countryside, the echoes of the curlew bird emerging from guitar duo Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay, as well as the sounds of a woodland in Scotland by a second pairing of guitarists in the show: Morgan Szymanski and Tommy Perman.

Elsewhere, the magic of choral music inspired by an enchanting hawthorn tree from American musician and composer Peter Broderick and East Forest, the artist name of the composer Trevor Oswalt; plus underwater aquatic colours and bubbly textures courtesy of musician, composer and lifeguard Roméo Poirier. 

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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