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recorded by BBC Radio 3 and the European Broadcasting Union, across the UK and

beyond. The programme will also be a showcase for BBC Radio 3’s New Generation
Artists as well as the BBC’s own orchestras and choirs (Mon – Friday, 1pm-4pm).

BBC Radio 3 renews its partnerships with the Edinburgh International Festival, the
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the 75th Aldeburgh Festival. The

station will broadcast concerts and exclusive interviews from these key events in the
UK classical music calendar, with further details to be announced in due course.

Radio 3 also marks two very different centenaries with special broadcasts: on 15
April, the station celebrates the great British conductor Sir Neville Marriner on what

would have been his 100th birthday, with every piece of music from 7am to 7pm
featuring Marriner on the podium. Across the day, listeners will hear archive
recordings, personal stories and memories of this much-loved musician, from
Breakfast and Essential Classics through to Composer of the Week and In Tune.
The day culminates in a live concert from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (of
which Marriner was the founder), led by the Academy’s current Music Director,
violinist Joshua Bell.

The Story of Beatrice Harrison sees cellist Kate Kennedy revisiting the location
and story of the legendary 19th May 1924 broadcast, when Beatrice Harrison played
live from a Surrey garden alongside a nightingale. The public reaction was such that
the experiment was repeated the next month and then every spring for years after.
Harrison became internationally renowned and she received 50,000 fan
letters. Kennedy explores why birdsong and music have become so entwined, and
how the early BBC engineers made that first broadcast happen (Sunday 19 May).

Upcoming Sunday Features include: historian Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on
the music of the Vikings (Music of the Vikings); Neil Brand marking the 100th
birthday of MGM film studios, charting the rise and fall of the MGM musical (MGM at
100); a programme tracing the story of Gavin Bryars’ enduring minimalist
masterpiece Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Never Failed Me Yet); and a re-
telling of the life of Japanese composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto one year
after his untimely death (Sakamoto - Art is Long, Life is Short).

As part of The Essay, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Erland
Cooper transports listeners to phantom islands, scoring music for mythical places
(Erland Cooper’s Phantom Islands); and Katie Derham explores how plants have
inspired composers through the ages, coinciding with the start of the Chelsea Flower
Show (Music in Bloom).

Between the Ears runs later (7.15pm–8pm) and The Essay earlier (Mon- Fri,
9.45pm-10pm).