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- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven explores the history of this semi-precious stone and reflects in poetry on his finds. The first stone he found was serpentine from the beaches of the island of Iona.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mff

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- Martin Hayes Turns the Tune
In conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Irish fiddle-player Martin Hayes talks about his collaborations with musicians from other genres, including jazz and classical.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdh1

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- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven combines Scottish landscape and geological history with poetry. Scotland has some of the most exciting gemstones, but knowing where to find them is the secret.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024nmg

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- Martin Hayes Turns the Tune
In conversation with Olivia O'Leary, traditional Irish musician Martin Hayes talks about his musical hero, the legendary fiddle-player Tommie Potts.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sfny

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- David Munrow - The Pied Piper
Fifty years on, how does David Munrow’s music sound today? Edward Blakeman considers the legacy of the trailblazing musician.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vy3h

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- Martin Hayes Turns the Tune
In conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Irish fiddle-player Martin Hayes talks about his partnership with Dennis Cahill (1954-2022), an American classically-trained guitarist.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdgd

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- David Munrow - The Pied Piper
What made David Munrow's long-running children's series, with more than 600 programmes, so popular in the 1970s? This episode reflects on Munrow's skills as communicator.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vxrq

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- Martin Hayes Turns the Tune
In conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Irish fiddle-player Martin Hayes recalls playing with the Tulla Céilí Band, founded in 1946 and still going, and demystifies jigs and reels.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sg9f

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- David Munrow - The Pied Piper
To many, the recorder is a modest school instrument. Not for David Munrow, a musical maverick of the 1960s, who transformed it into a world of colour, curiosity and adventure.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vywz

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- Martin Hayes Turns the Tune
In conversation with Olivia O'Leary, Martin Hayes describes learning the fiddle as traditional musicians have for centuries and regional styles in different parts of Ireland.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sd9x

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- Music Rediscovered
Charles Burney (1726-1814) was the author of the first history of music ever published In the English language. Sophie Coulombeau has been reading it and his letters and diaries.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3y7

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- David Munrow - The Pied Piper
David Munrow changed how Britain listened to music — fast, boldly, often controversially. This series reflects on how his passion and creativity brought forgotten sounds to life.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vw49

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- Music Rediscovered
The Comet Prelude received its world premiere recording in 2025, seventy-three years after it was written by the mixed-race composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Leah Broad explores why.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3wh

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- Healing Musicians
Kate Kennedy hears from young musicians Rebecca Toal and Hattie Butterworth how mental health issues forced them to rethink their relationship with their instruments.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023p7c

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- Music Rediscovered
A remarkable online project is making available, for the first time in a hundred years, the rich repertoire of klezmer player Motl Reyder. Phil Alexander explores his tunebook.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s51r

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- Healing Musicians
Kate Kennedy meets Ludwig Quandt, principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic, to discover how an unexpected injury forced him to rethink his life and career.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023p3r

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- The Insect Singers
The Insect Singers trill their last sonorous Essay. 5. Good Vibrations - Treehoppers. Through the discipline of biotremology, Rex Cocroft reveals an extraordinarily resonant world.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vl6n

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- Healing Musicians
Kate Kennedy meets principal French horn player Robin Graham to learn what it means for a musician's relationship with their instrument when injury forces them to stop playing.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023qcj

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- Healing Musicians
Kate Kennedy talks to prize-winning pianist Stephen Marquiss about the injury that nearly destroyed his career and what he did to establish a new relationship with his instrument.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023p6q

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- The Insect Singers
The Essay revels in the musicality and din of Earth’s loudest insect singers. Cicada Summer Song. Celebrated in verse, sculpture and myth - from Japan and China to Ancient Greece.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vmxj

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- The Insect Singers
The Essay celebrates the musicality of Earth’s insect singers. 2. Katydids - All Night Long. As told by naturalist Wil Hershberger and evolutionary biologist Charlie Woodrow.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vlf2

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- You, Me and the Wireless
Legendary broadcaster Gillian Reynolds shares her life and career in radio, spanning over 50 years. The role of politics on air is her theme in this essay.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rr79

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- You, Me and the Wireless
Legendary broadcaster Gillian Reynolds shares her life and career in radio, spanning over 50 years. Her theme today – the power of the voice….
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rtgw

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Johannes Brahms, Hans Eijsackers & Henk Neven:
🎵 49 German folk-songs, book 1 (6. Da unten im Tale)
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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton returns to Deptford to investigate the claims that Kit Marlowe was murdered and explores Marlowe's legacy.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vbn8

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton explores how, after he wrote what was to be his last play, The Massacre at Paris, Kit Marlowe found himself becoming the story.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v8nt

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton explores how with Dr Faustus, Kit Marlowe pushed the boundaries of what was permissible for Elizabethan drama and its writers even further.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vb8d

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton reveals the enduring influence of Marlowe on Shakespeare, how they seem to have collaborated on Henry VI, and assesses the relationship between the two dramatists.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vcd9

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- Full Moon on Progress St
Dr Rommi Smith examines the music and contributions of five leading Black female musicians, to civil rights and social change.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rhtw

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Erland takes a mystical trip north of the Himalayas, to the 'earthly paradise' of Shambhala, to explore its luminous heart: the capital city of Kalapa.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqpt

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- Full Moon on Progress St
Dr Rommi Smith examines the music and contributions of five leading Black female musicians, to civil rights and social change.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rf4f

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton explores Kit Marlowe's dark inspiration for Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v6c3

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Composer Erland Cooper discovers the mythical city of Kêr-Is, Brittany’s sunken city of excess, where ancient flood myths meet modern climate reality and Celtic legend.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqfp

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- Erland Cooper's Cities of the Imagination
Erland journeys deep into the heart of the Sahara’s Great Sand Sea to uncover the mystery of Zerzura.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sq9h

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton visits Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, where Kit Marlowe studied and was transformed from scholarship boy to gentleman – and spy.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v6z6

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
Jerry Brotton visits Canterbury, the town of Kit Marlowe’s birth to explore the currents which would later find their ways into Marlowe's plays.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v67g

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- The Death and Life of Christopher Marlowe
The first episode opens with the infamous murder of Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe in 1593. Was he murdered by design, or simply the victim of a dispute over the bill, or ‘reckoning’?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v6z8

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Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Sholto Kynoch & Helen Charlston:
🎵 Italien
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Roman Borisov & Erika Baikoff:
🎵 Twilight Op.24 No.4
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