This Classical Life

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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

Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too.

Jess Gillam hosts the music show for people who like classical and other stuff too. Music, eclectic playlists and chat, with a new guest every week.

This Classical Life: Jess Gillam with... Kathryn Stott

Jess Gillam with... Kathryn Stott

BBC Radio 3 - This Classical Life, Jess Gillam with... Kathryn Stott

Jess Gillam and pianist Kathryn Stott share the tracks they love, with music by Rachmaninov, Puccini, Sibelius, Graham Fitkin, Donny McCaslin and Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.

Jess Gillam and pianist Kathryn Stott chat about life and share their favourite tracks. Kathy tells us of her love for opera with Jonathan Tetelman singing an aria from Puccini's La Boheme, her emotional connection to Rachmaninov's first piano concerto and goes back to her days clubbing with an 80s classic by Al Jarreau. Jess shares the other-worldly sound of Ethiopian pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and we have frenetic energy from Graham Fitkin and Donny McCaslin.

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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This Classical Life

Jess Gillam with... Kathryn Stott

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