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This week the radio team host their most special show to date as a whole episode is dedicated to showcase...
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This week, Polly and Lily are joined by Naomi, whose undergraduate degree was in Physics and Music, to talk about...
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Chris Fonseca is a London based Lyrical Hip hop dancer and choreographer. But Chris isn't just any choreographer, his story...
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Of all the ways to get people thinking about contagious diseases, using music isn’t something that immediately springs to mind....
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In the following, our writer, Aran Shaunak, imagines what a conversation between Freddie Mercury and his producer might have been...
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The public are always open to songs written about aliens, space travel and other worlds. Perhaps it is by exploring...
Space and time bend. Intuition falters. What do we really know? Monopoles is a weekend of exhibitions, talks and performances...
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Modern music - even Darwin didn't see that coming. Darwin was prepared to accept musical expression as a feature of...
A voyage through a galaxy of favourite music from deep space and beyond, with lights, lasers and fireworks. Including works...
Night has fallen on the Grant Museum of Zoology, the doors are closed and the museum staff have gone home,...
With the help of the audience, presenters Tom Service and Sarah Walker and ‘Why Music?’ resident experts Victoria Williamson and...
According to Darwin, the origins of verbal communication lie in a musical ‘protolanguage’, in which speech and song were one....
Chris Watson is one of the world’s most celebrated wildlife sound recordists. Using both his own surround sound field recordings...
Music psychologist Victoria Williamson is joined by principle players of Aurora Orchestra for a concert and talk showing how music...
Andrew McGregor is joined by psychologist Lauren Stewart and composer and pianist Neil Brand to explore the neurological basis of...
Tom Service presents a programme featuring soloists from the Aurora Orchestra, including world premieres from three young composers on the...
Julian Joseph presents a programme featuring musicians interacting with technology and finds out how well synthetically produced music and improvisation...
Tom Service and ‘Why Music?’ resident experts Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball draw together some of the big themes of...
Psychiatrist and concert pianist Dr Richard Kogan is renowned for his recital-lectures showing how some composers’ mental illnesses influenced and...
How and why have composers through the centuries striven to imbue their music with the patterns and mathematics of the...
Claudia Hammond talks to Professor David Hargreaves about the ways in which music can influence the brain from a neurological...
Max Reinhardt presents artists including Mara Carlyle, Afrikan Boy, Ghostpoet and Dave Okumu, performing original compositions from the Body of...
In Radio 3’s popular ‘Drivetime’ show the irrepressible Sean Rafferty asks ‘Why Music?’ with a lively mix of performance and...
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The biosphere of pop music When asked to define the nature of time, Saint Augustine famously confessed that “If no-one...
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Arts Experiment 2.0 was full of fun, thrills and variety; from fire jugglers to bagpipers, but slightly lacking in actual...
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There is nothing Ronan the Sea Lion loves more than a good bop along to the Backstreet Boys. But her...
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Armand Leroi is not your average Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. As a scientist, his expertise lies in tiny worms...
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Universe of Sound: The Planets The Science Museum 10am-6pm daily from 23 May - 8 July 2012. Entrance is FREE....
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Technologist at BBC R&D The BBC R&D Department is the core of the corporation's effort to be at the cutting...
