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The Essay

Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1930s, Creating a National Music

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC and how by the 1930s the BBC had become a powerful influence on national taste, being urged to do more for British music. Show more

The Essay

Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1920s, Reviving Old Ayres

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC, looking at how in the 1920s there was a new approach to performing the music of past. Show more

The Essay

Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1940s, New Life for Old Music

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Nicholas Kenyon explores how the launch of the BBC’s cultural Third Programme in 1946 rapidly advanced the revival of early music on the BBC. Show more

The Essay

Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1950s and 60s, Performance in Period Style

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Nicholas Kenyon explores how in the creative years of the 1950s and 1960s, the revival of early music had a new sense of adventure. Show more

The Essay

Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1970s, Into the Mainstream

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

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Nicholas Kenyon explores the rising popularity of early music in the 1970s and a new interest in performing that music in line with historical evidence. Show more