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HCMF40

Featuring a Kraftwerk tribute from the 2017 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Sacred River – Sunday 26 November

Radio 3's six-hour uninterrupted stream of music and meditations from around world.
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Composer of the Week: Thelonious Monk

Donald Macleod and Brian Priestley celebrate the centenary of jazz legend Thelonious Monk.
Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

BBC Radio 3's exploration of the 1917 Russian Revolution and its cultural reverberations.
London Jazz Festival: The Jazz Voice

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

Frogs, storms and fireworks on the river with a modern day US Huck Finn-style anarchist.
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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.

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Jazz and World

Electrifying Jazz and World music.

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Sacred River – Sunday 26 November

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Composer of the Week: Thelonious Monk

Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture

London Jazz Festival: The Jazz Voice

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How BBC Children in Need is helping young musicians

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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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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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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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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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Why is the anniversary of the October Revolution in November?

Why the music we love as teens stays with us for life

How you can remember everyday things

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