BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

In Tune Mixtape

An eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises.

In Tune's Classical Music Mixtape: an imaginative, eclectic mix featuring classical favourites, lesser-known gems and a few surprises thrown in for good measure.

In Tune Mixtape: The perfect classical half hour

The perfect classical half hour

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune Mixtape, The perfect classical half hour

In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

The Essay: An Ode to John Keats

The Essay

Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: An Ode to John Keats: Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

An Ode to John Keats

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, An Ode to John Keats, Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets

In 1819, John Keats wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language.  Sasha Dugdale explores Ode to a Nightingale.

1819 was a stunningly fertile year for John Keats, when he wrote five of the greatest odes in the English language and actually introduced words and phrases never heard before - "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.....", "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty....." "O for a beaker full of the warm South....." 

Five leading contemporary poets each celebrate a single ode.

4. Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

Producer; Beaty Rubens

Five leading contemporary poets celebrate John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819.

John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five leading contemporary poets.

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