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Also included in the new schedule, saxophonist Jess Gillam presents an extended

version of the popular radio show This Classical Life on Saturday evenings, with
guests from the music world (Saturdays, 5pm-6pm), while Hannah French becomes
the sole presenter of The Early Music Show (Sundays 5pm-6pm). Record
Review moves to Saturday afternoon (Saturdays, 2pm-4pm), Night
Tracks increases to five episodes a week, with an earlier start (Sunday-Thursday,
10pm-11.30pm), Unclassified moves to Sunday night (11.30pm–12.30am),
and Music Planet moves to Saturday night (Saturdays 9.30pm-10.30pm).

Current speech programmes The Verb and Free Thinking move to a new home on
BBC Radio 4, with broadcast times to be confirmed in the coming weeks. The
Listening Service moves from a weekly show and will appear seasonally during
BBC Proms broadcasts.

BBC Television

Mozart: Rise of a Genius (w/t)
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From the team behind the acclaimed Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius, comes a
landmark series looking at the life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. On the
fortieth anniversary of the release of the film Amadeus, this series will separate the
truth from the mythology surrounding the child prodigy and genius composer who
was feted by kings and emperors and whose life was cut short by a bitter musical
rivalry. We think we know him: but the truth is very different.

This series recounts the extraordinary true story of Mozart's life, using a blend of
drama and interviews with world-leading musicians, historians and experts to reflect
on the twists and turns of the composer's incredible life. It's a dark family saga of
ambition, betrayal, grief and death, from which Mozart emerges as a complex and
contradictory character, driven to succeed as a composer on his own terms after

being wheeled around the courts of Europe as a musical prodigy by a father who
drove him mercilessly from infancy. His story is set against the shifting political world
of Europe on the eve of the French Revolution, as an archaic system of musical
patronage gives way to a world in which genius is recognised for itself.

With Mozart’s extraordinary music as a soundtrack, expert contributors will offer
close readings and interpretation of his greatest works, from The Marriage of Figaro,
The Magic Flute and Piano Concerto No.21 to lesser-known but no less influential
pieces such as the Piano Sonata No. 8, A Musical Joke, and Symphony No.31, the
Paris Symphony.