Narrated by Tony Robinson
Sit back and enjoy as Tony Robinson narrates the stories behind some of the all-time classical music greats, as world-renowned conductors and their orchestras play the music underneath. Not heard since 1995!
Dur: 1hr 59minsSTEREO
Available in 3 'flavours' offering differing quality vs file size (all the same price!):
Written & Presented by Various
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
'Silent Spring', written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962, is widely credited with having launched the environmental movement. Serialised in The New Yorker, it caused a furore. Here, five key figures in the world of environmentalism deliver essays on Silent Spring and some of the important works that followed it.
Dur: 1hr 7minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 154MB
Written by Friedrich Schiller / Translation by Mike Poulton
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
The acclaimed Sheffield Theatre's production of Schiller's play, starring Derek Jacobi in a new translation by Mike Poulton.
Dur: 2hrs 10minsSTEREO - Radio Drama
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 297MB
Written & Presented by Lowri Blake
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
Lowri Blake presents a programme about Debussy's work during the summer of 1912, talking to pianists Roy Howat, Peter Hill and Alasdair Beatson as well as musicologist Robert Orledge, and introducing music from that time.Dur: 44minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 100MB
Written by Tennessee Williams
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
Hypocrisy, greed and secret passions threaten to tear apart a wealthy but dysfunctional Mississippi family in Tennessee Williams' explosive American masterpiece set in the plantations of the Deep South.
Dur: 1hr 59minsSTEREO - Radio Drama
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 273MB
Written & Presented by Dennis Marks
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
To coincide with the Benjamin Britten Centenary, this documentary, presented by Dennis Marks, explores the social and political background to the pacifism which was central to his creative vision and that of his fellow composer Michael Tippett. Their beliefs made an impact on the personal life of both composers as well as their music. Britten left for the USA and returned as a conscientious objector.Dur: 44minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 100MB
Written & Presented by Prof Mark Ronan
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
These four essays under the title ‘Symmetry and the Monster’ open up the world of mathematics, and describe one of the journeys which have preoccupied some of the greatest mathematical brains from the early 19th century to now. It’s a chronological journey, presented by Prof Mark Ronan.
Dur: 53minsSTEREO - 2 part Radio Series
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 121MB
Presented by Various
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
April 2009 was the five hundredth anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne and was marked by this series of five individual essays on key areas of his thirty eight year reign.
Dur: 1hr 07minsSTEREO - 5 part Radio Series
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 155MB
Presented by Dr Zoe Norridge
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
Zoe Norridge reports from Rwanda as the country prepares for the 20th anniversary of genocide. Over 100 days, beginning in April 1994, up to a million people were massacred in one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
Dur: 44minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 256kbps Stereo MP3 - 80MB
Presented by Zeinab Badawi
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
Sudan has seen some of the worst fighting in its internal conflicts. In this “Sunday Feature” Zeinab Badawi visits the Albuga Festival in Khartoum to meet those actors and directors who are at theatre’s front line and find out how they use their skills to help communities recover from war.
Dur: 44minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 100MB
Presented by John Worthen
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3
A series of short essays looking at different perspectives on the life and work of Robert Schumann.
Dur: 43minsSTEREO - Radio Documentary
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 99MB
Presented by Various
Originally Broadcast On BBC Radio 3 in 2010
A series of short essays looking at different perspectives on the life and work of Robert Schumann.
Dur: 1hr 7minsSTEREO - 5 part Radio series
Available as 320kbps Stereo MP3 - 153MB