The 6 Best The Radio 3 Documentary Podcast Episodes
1) Tuner of the World
"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for a listening experiment on public radio in Canada. Pioneering Canadian composer and soundscape maestro, R Mur...Show More
2) Sunday Feature: Hidden Women and Silenced Scores
Music historian Leah Broad uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of three marginalised 20th century female composers, and hears some of their music for the very first time.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Riding the Waves
Musicians and writers immerse themselves in the writing of Virginia Woolf, 90 years after the publication of her modernist novel The Waves.
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I read The Waves a few months ago for the first time and it's been on my mind ever since. A brilliant and beautiful book -- I've never read ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Sunday Feature: Electronic India
The discovery of a dusty box of tapes in a cupboard in Ahmedabad sets musician Paul Purgas on the trail of a little-known chapter of Indian electronic music.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Poles Apart
The unknown tale of cold war communist Poland’s unlikely love affair with electronic music. Robert Worby finds out Warsaw was a beacon of musical freedom behind the iron curtain. It was here that the ...Show More
6) Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen
Matthew Sweet delves into the science fiction futures of Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. With music specially composed by The Vile Electrodes.
7) Sound Sources
Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lee Renaldo on their debt to classical music.
8) Time Canvasses - Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism
In a remarkable moment after WWII New York became the centre of the art world, simultaneously seeing the development of new ways of hearing music, and new ways of seeing art. It was here that the Amer...Show More
9) Supply Lines
Via ports and truck-stops, fulfilment centres and ring roads, Aidan Tulloch follows the supply chain and reimagines the journey an item goes on in the age of 24/7 delivery.
10) New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.