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How BBC Children in Need is helping young musicians

Meet 16-year-old singer Joss, one of the many young people supported by your donations.
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

BBC Radio 3's exploration of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its cultural reverberations.
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Featuring arch-experimentalist ensemble zeitkratzer paying tribute to Kraftwerk.
London Jazz Festival: The Jazz Voice

Andrew McGregor introduces the EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala.
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Between the Ears: The Shanty Boat

Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
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The folk song that gave Tetris its theme

Korobushka is a Russian folksong - but you may know it as something else. Tetris, anyone?
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Tallis, Gershwin and Duruflé

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces unmissable choral music.

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We broadcast more live and specially-recorded concerts and opera than any other station.

Arts

Creativity, performance, debate

Jazz and World

Electrifying Jazz and World music.

Radio 3 Reads

Fascinating articles and features from Radio 3 and the BBC Proms

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Sunday Morning

Private Passions

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

The Early Music Show

Choral Evensong

Choir and Organ

The Listening Service

Words and Music

Sunday Feature

Ar an aer

Radio 3 in Concert

Seinnte le gairid

Ag seinm anois

Drama on 3

Early Music Late

Recital

Through the Night

Highlights

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How BBC Children in Need is helping young musicians

Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

HCMF40

London Jazz Festival: The Jazz Voice

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Between the Ears: The Shanty Boat

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The folk song that gave Tetris its theme

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Tallis, Gershwin and Duruflé

More music

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Opera on 3 - Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans

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Late Junction - Max Reinhardt with a Darcy James Argue mixtape

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Late Junction - Live from the 2017 London Jazz Festival

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Radio 3 in Concert - Britten Sinfonia and Sir Mark Elder

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Afternoon Concert - Thursday Opera Matinee: Prokofiev's The Gambler

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Late Junction - Max Reinhardt

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Choral Evensong - Russian Orthodox Prayer Service

Arts

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The Essay - Desperately Seeking Eternity - Desperately Seeking Eternity: Lucy Winkett

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Sunday Feature - Resurrecting Mayakovsky

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Between the Ears - Between the Ears: The Plot for Karl Marx

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The Verb - The Unseen Verb

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Free Thinking - Being Human: The Lost Luggage Office, Ghosts and Warrior Poets.

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Free Thinking - Network, Jaron Lanier, Reputations.

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Free Thinking - Martin Luther King, Poets and Political Protest

Jazz and World

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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - Thelonious Monk Centenary

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Jazz Line-Up - Chris Potter Quartet at the London Jazz Festival

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Jazz Record Requests - 18/11/2017

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World on 3 - With Lopa Kothari and Otava Yo in concert

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Jazz Now - Tomasz Stanko

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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz

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Jazz Line-Up - Misha Mullov-Abbado

Radio 3 Reads

Long live the world revolution! Proletariat of all the world unite!

Seven significant facts about poppies

Five mind-blowingly bonkers (and brilliant) early Soviet choral works

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