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Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.
The podcast for classical newbies. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here.
An antidote to today’s frenzied world. Step back, let go, immerse yourself: it’s time to go slow.A lo-fi celebration of pure sound.
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.
Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives
Every Friday we bring you a new drama from BBC Radio 4 or Radio 3. Exercise your imagination with some of the best writers and actors on radio. Storytelling at its very best.
Radio 3's regular jaunt into the latest, brightest and best gaming soundtracks.
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen
BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.
Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works
The stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters
Building a Library: a guide to the best recordings of the greatest classical music. Experts review a wide range of recordings of a well-known piece, ending with a recommendation.
Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance
Discover the world with music. Join local experts for a sonic journey around the globe.
Join Nao to escape the noise of daily life through the power of music and meditation. Experience guided meditations from a range of experts, enhanced by immersive classical sound.
Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.
An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.
The Limelight podcast - for fiction and drama serials you won't want to miss from Radio 4.
Dramas for English language learners from BBC World Service. Improve your English with retellings of stories classic and new. Each episode is between 6 and 10 minutes long.
In this set of free downloads, BBC Radio 3 presenters introduce a key composer and work featured in BBC Prom concerts.
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.
Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.
Composer and comedian Vikki Stone unbuttons the BBC Proms and asks the questions everyone else is afraid to ask.
Key pieces of music from the Georgian period explored by Suzy Klein and Christian Curnyn. From BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 Opera guides
The story of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer - a criminal who smelted the gold from the Brink's-Mat bullion robbery and went on to mastermind the biggest time share fraud in history.
World music from the Commonwealth countries for BBC Radio 3’s World on 3, Fridays. Musicians, sportspeople and cultural figures introduce music recorded on location.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch interviews today’s composers exploring the relationship between their immediate environment and the music they write. From BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now, published on Sunday mornings.
Discover classical music loved by celebrated guests from all walks of life. To hear the music in full go to BBC Playlister.
The final shortlist of winning carols in the Breakfast Christmas Carol Competition. Composed by listeners, a setting of a poem by Susan Hill specially written for Radio 3
Creative collaborations in new music. A series where the world’s leading composers and performers explain how they cooperate in the creation of new work.
Maurice Ravel revealed through guides to his work and life. First broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Ravel Day, 7 March 2014.
BBC Radio 3's Piano A to Z
Classical music critic Norman Lebrecht talks to major figures in the field
Your one-stop shop for all things Shakespeare. Catch A-List casts in brand new versions of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, plus documentaries from the brightest minds.
Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one
A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.
Katie Derham explores the relationship between music and dance in a variety of genres.
Britten 100. Highlights from Radio 3’s Britten centenary weekend in Aldeburgh with special features, interviews and on location reports recorded in Suffolk.
Seeking to separate fact from fiction, the multi award-winning series returns. Josh Baker investigates the divisive story of Shamima Begum.
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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive
The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive is a podcast that contains off-air recordings from the shortwaves. These recordings represent the wide variety of stations found on the shortwave, long wave and medium wave radio spectrums (30-30,000 kHz)
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents a collection of quirky tales from the corners of history, exploring a different theme in each weekly episode.
From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, The Battersea Poltergeist's Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters.
Highlights of BBC Radio 3’s special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.
A comprehensive guide to the language of opera with contributions from singers, conductors, directors and vocal coaches. From BBC Radio 3, May 2010
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Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
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Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Peter Stewart
Year THREE of short daily episodes to improve the quality of your speaking voice. Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every ...
2023.03.27 – 0816 – Whole Body Warm Up Exercises Whole Body Warm Up Exercises[1] (Some of these exercises incorporate ‘sound’ as well as ‘structure’, that is you may use your voice while you are physically moving, and in that way, there is naturally some cross over with the previous chapter. This again shows how all elements of the body are interli…
BBC in English recorded in Europe on 26 March 2023 at 1733 UTC, the shortwave frequency of 21470 kHz in the 13 meter band. Recording made using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.By Frank Franky
Over a century ago, in 1881, the city of Birmingham purchased a copy of Shakespeare's first folio. It was to be the crown jewel of their new Shakespeare library, the brainchild of the first librarian George Dawson. From the outset it was to be the People's Folio, the property of the city's Free library. You can find the evidence stamped in red ink …
A sonic journey into Japan's unique culture of music cafés and listening bars. Places where people come together to indulge in deep listening in audiophile quality, with venues for fans of everything from classical, jazz, to electronic music.This culture has its origins in the time prior to the second world war, when imported records and audio equi…
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2023.03.26 – 0815 – Relaxation From Tension The flip side of tension is relaxation. Hopefully you will have seen by now how so many parts of the body are involved in creating the sound we call voice: your spine, various ligaments and muscles – some as small as the vocal folds in your throat, some large and powerful such as your diaphragm. And ‘rela…
John Debney, composer of scores for films such as Elf, Jetsons: The Movie, Hocus Pocus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, joins Matthew Sweet for a look back on his prodigious Hollywood career. John has a long association with the Disney studios and he explains to Matthew the extraordinary story of how his Disney career came about, of writ…
Jess Gillam chats to conductor Jack Bazalgette, co-founder of ‘through the noise’ which aims to innovate and revolutionise live classical music. Their musical journey takes them to Zimbabwe with the music of mbira player Chiwoniso, a forest in Sweden with the Danish String Quartet plus we have the sounds of Barbara Moore, Mahler and Floating Points…
Kate Molleson talks to composer Anna Clyne, clarinettist Martin Frost and violinist Pekka Kuusisto together about the concertos Anna has written for the acclaimed soloists. The UK premiere of her clarinet concerto for Martin - Weathered - took place at the Royal Festival Hall this week, with Pekka conducting. Her violin concerto for Pekka - Time an…
2023.03.25 – 0814 – Ten Tell-Tale Signs of Tension Some physical tension creeps up on us. We don’t notice small changes to the body until it’s ‘too late’. So here are Ten Tell-Tale Signs of Tension: 1. Your voice sounds crackly and raspy 2. It sounds thin or strained 3. Your voice sounds weak 4. You find yourself short of breath while speaking 5. Y…
This week Testament - poet, theatre-maker and world-record-breaking human beatboxer, explores the meaning and power of the sounds we make between words, including sighing and laughing - with spoken word artist and writer Polar Bear (Steven Camden) , 'Wild' author Jay Griffiths, and poets Shirley May and John McAuliffe. Polar Bear presents a brand n…
By Edson Burton. The enigmatic drifter is back to help a troubled soul. James Persad has lost his wife Mavis, and he too seems lost. Can Deacon help? New supernatural drama starring Don Warrington and Ram John Holder.CASTDeacon - Don WarringtonJames Persad - Ram John HolderMavis - Sutara GayleMichael - Lee MengoRyan - Tristan SlowleyYouth - Hasan D…
Georges Bizet’s story ought to have been a very straightforward one. It was clear to everyone who met him just how brilliantly and excitingly talented he was. He was also fortunate to live and work in Paris, a city laden with musical opportunities in the mid-nineteenth century. Donald Macleod shows how Bizet’s life proved more challenging and event…
Arthur Montgomery is suspected of murdering Jamie Phelps. The race is on to find him.By BBC Radio
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? - Chapter Five: Bogata
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The team is in a race against time for answers, but the route proves circuitous.Chapter Five – the quest ends?Cast:Clara Page - Phoebe FoxAldrich Kemp – Ferdinand KingsleyMrs Boone – Nicola WalkerSebastian Harcourt – Kyle SollerNakesha Kemp – Karla CromeAunt Lily – Susan JamesonForsaken McTeague and the Underwood Sisters – Jana Carpenter.Sabine Sea…
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? - Chapter Four: The Murder Clowns
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Dr Hazlitt sends Aldrich and Clara on a mission to unexplored and dangerous territory.Chapter Four – more questions than answers?Cast:Clara Page - Phoebe FoxAldrich Kemp – Ferdinand KingsleyMrs Boone – Nicola WalkerSebastian Harcourt – Kyle SollerNakesha Kemp – Karla CromeAunt Lily – Susan Jameson Forsaken McTeague and the Underwood Sisters – Jana …
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? - Chapter Three: Liberty Flights
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Clara and Sabine battle through undergrowth and language barriers as Nakesha and Sebastian follow the Liberty Flights lead in Vienna.Chapter Three - Liberty Flights don’t file flight plans.Cast:Clara Page - Phoebe FoxAldrich Kemp – Ferdinand KingsleyMrs Boone – Nicola WalkerSebastian Harcourt – Kyle SollerNakesha Kemp – Karla CromeAunt Lily – Susan…
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? - Chapter Two: The Man Who Sold the World
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Clara's dispatched on a new mission by her new boss. What could possibly go wrong? Chapter Two - just who is Remington Schofield?Cast:Clara Page - Phoebe FoxAldrich Kemp – Ferdinand KingsleyMrs Boone – Nicola WalkerSebastian Harcourt – Kyle SollerNakesha Kemp – Karla CromeAunt Lily – Susan Jameson The Underwood Sisters & Forsaken McTeague – Jana Ca…
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? - Chapter One: Funeral in London
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Our heroine Clara Page (Phoebe Fox) returns. And this time the question’s deadly serious - Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? Prepare for another rollercoaster ride from the pen of Julian Simpson, flying us from the Italian Riviera to the Malaysian jungle - via afternoon tea at Themis House.Chapter One - and there’s trouble in London …Cast:Clara Page - Phoeb…
When Ben Taylor receives a Facebook message from a stranger in Liberia, asking in badly spelled English for financial or business assistance, he quickly assumes it’s a scam. But instead of just ignoring the message, he decides to find out about the person behind it. In this episode, Matthew Syed explores what happens when you let your guard down an…
2023.03.24 – 0813 – Your Studio Desk Set Up Your Studio Desk Set Up Are the screens in your studio laid out so you can see them without twisting and turning, actions which will causes spinal stresses and strains? If you talk with a twisted neck, you are pulling the larynx out of alignment causing other muscles to compensate, which will affect your …
Lea Ypi, author of a memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, joins Matthew Sweet to explore the history and culture of Albania - its art, music and literature. They're joined by Adela Demetja - curator and director of the Tirana Art Lab - Centre for Contemporary Art in Albania and curator of the Albania pavilion in last year's Ve…
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New Thinking: AI, feminism, human/machines
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What ethical questions arise from new human-machine relations as we are increasingly asked, as citizens and workers, to collaborate with AI systems? And how might a feminist approach to AI design help us shape an equitable future for AI-Human relations?Research Associate, Kerry McInerney, discusses how facial recognition AI software is being deploy…
2023.03.23 – 0812 – Nine Lines On the Spine (7-9) 7. Similarly wearing high heels can also throw your body out of alignment, you may have to stick your bum out to counterbalance your weight, causing other stresses on the ‘wrong’ part of the skeleton and muscle groups, and the resulting tension causing a less effective and free voice. 8. The ribs ar…
What happened to the girl Shamima Begum says convinced her to join the Islamic State group?Less than 24 hours before this episode was published ,we got the answer. Reporter: Josh BakerWritten and produced by: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat and Joe KentComposer: Firas Abou FakherTheme music: Sam SlaterMix and sound design: Tom BrignellProduction coordinat…
2023.03.22 – 0811 – Nine Lines On the Spine (4-6) 4. The larynx is at the top of the trachea which runs along the same line as your spine. What you do with your head and neck alignment has a knock-on effect on your larynx, and therefore your voice. 5. The average human head weighs around 5kg or 11lbs, that's more than most new-born babies, and is b…
Billy Waters became a celebrity in early 19th century London as a talented street performer. New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen and Mary L. Shannon join Rana Mitter to tell Billy's story and those of other musicians performing on the streets of London at the time. Charlie Taverner has written a history of Street Food. We also hear from Marigold Hu…
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes: Broadcaster: United Arab Emirates Radio from Abu Dhabi Frequency: 9.605 Reception location: London, Ontario, Canada Receiver and antenna: Panasonic RF-3100 and longwire antenna Notes: Here is short clip of United Arab Emirates Radio from Abu Dhabi in Englis…
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Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On - Episode 1
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Why did the US want regime change in Iraq? Was it really about the threat of terrorists getting hold of weapons of mass destruction after the September 11th 2001 attacks, or was the desire much deeper? And what was the British government's reaction? Presenter: Gordon CoreraSeries Producer: John MurphyProducers: Ellie House, Claire BowesSound Design…
2023.03.21 – 0810 – Nine Lines On the Spine (1-3) Nine Lines On the Spine 1. Why is this important? Well, your voice is affected by your postural alignment, and you will have better breathing and resonance if your ‘spine is fine’. That means using minimal effort for maximum effect: an efficient, effective and effortlessly good voice without the wor…
Building a Library: Kenneth Hamilton chooses his favourite recording of Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor.Frédéric Chopin composed this glorious concerto in 1829 when he was 20 and before he had finished his formal education. It was first performed in Warsaw, with the composer as soloist. It was actually the first of his two piano concertos t…
Linton Stephens makes a classical playlist for Motherland's Tanya Moodie in a special Mother's Day edition.Tanya's playlist:Dame Ethyl Smyth - Serenade in D major: IV. FinaleLibby Larsen - URSA: I. Sings to the Night SkyJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer - Pièces de clavecin, Book 1: No. 14 La Marche, des ScythesClaudio Monteverdi - Zefiro torna e di so…
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0809 – Vocal Tension From Sitting and Standing
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2023.03.20 – 0809 – Vocal Tension From Sitting and Standing Physical tension can come from sitting down and standing up It is very easy to stay still in a studio and only at the end of a programme realise that you have been in the same seat for three or four hours. Sitting still has your body relaxed into a sedentary position, your breathing slows …
Helena Kennedy is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers. Brought up in a Glasgow tenement flat, she was the first in her family to go to university. But instead of going to Glasgow University to read English and becoming a teacher, as they expected, she startled everyone by travelling to London - to study for the Bar. Some of her friends misu…
Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American lifeBy BBC Radio 3
Tom Service with a guide to music written for and performed at weddings.By BBC Radio 3
Radio Channel 292 recorded on March 19, 2023 at 1348 UTC broadcasting on shortwave frequency of 9670 kHz. Recording made using Kenwood R-5000 receiver and Wellbrook ALA 1530+ antenna.By Frank Franky
2023.03.19 – 0808 – The Causes of Vocal Tension What Causes Tension Nerves. Overwhelm. Anxiety. Excitement. The unknown. Panic. Being underprepared. Being worried about how you sound. Concerns about your message and the audience’s reception to it. Any physical niggle can affect your voice. That’s anything from a paper cut to menstrual cramps, disco…
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This Classical Life
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Jess Gillam with... Laura van der Heijden
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Jess is joined by the cellist Laura van der Heijden to share some of their favourite musical discoveries, including JS Bach interpreted by the Lodestar Trio, music from Philip Glass’s Book of Longing, a track from the trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and Elena Urioste playing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.By BBC Radio 3
2023.03.18 – 0807 – Tension and Relaxation We looked at releasing tension in the mouth, jaw, tongue and lips in the previous chapter, but as the Voice Box above shows, physical tension that can affect your voice can be in many other places. “Tension murders vibration (and) vibrations thrive in relaxation” Kristin Linklater, “Freeing the Natural Voi…
As a new season arrives, Ian McMillan and guests consider ambivalence and beauty in writing about spring. This week Ian peers into the yellow heart of the daffodil to find out what makes a great spring poem, and shares poetry by some of the most remarkable poets of our moment, as well as those inspired by the colours of crocuses past. Spring is alw…
Powerful drama about memory, trauma and the possibility of recovery.By BBC Radio 4
A witness comes forward with some revealing information.By BBC Radio
What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? This is it…well, with a bit of human help. Tech journalist and BBC Click presenter, Lara Lewington, explores the immeasurable possibilities of sophisticated AI technology and how it will change our lives - from doing students' essays to writing films, diagnosing health conditions to customer serv…
Our heroine Clara Page (Phoebe Fox) returns. And this time the question's deadly serious - Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?Prepare for another rollercoaster ride from the pen of Julian Simpson, flying us from the Italian Riviera to the Malaysian jungle - via afternoon tea at Themis House.By BBC Radio 4
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0806 – Stretching and Strengthening Your Laryngeal Muscle
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2023.03.17 – 0806 – Stretching and Strengthening Your Laryngeal Muscle There are around 27 muscles in and around the larynx, 15 of these are outside the larynx and hold it in position in the neck, 12 are essential, with a direct action on the vocal folds in their lengthening and shortening, tension and relaxation, thinning and thickening. These lar…
Cinderella is opening in a new ballet production at the Royal Opera House and Mothering Sunday is coming up so Matthew Sweet is joined by New Generation Thinkers Sabina Dosani and Emma Whipday and Marina Warner for a conversation about good and bad mothering and how images are changing.Marina Warner's many books include From the Beast to the Blonde…
