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Summary : Occasional Offices: A collaboration between Roger Elsgood and audio artist Scanner, featuring words from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer woven into a soundscape of voices and music.
Details : Occasional Offices: A collaboration between Roger Elsgood and audio artist Scanner, featuring words from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer woven into a soundscape of voices and music.Occasional Offices: A collaboration between Roger Elsgood and audio artist Scanner. It features words from the Occasional Offices of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, delivered by the Reverend Dr Peter Mullen in actual services, woven into a soundscape of voices and scored with music by Scanner.

Starts 2007-02-17 21:45:00, Ends 2007-02-17 22:05:00 and is on for 20 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Steamboat Kurt: Ian McMillan searches for traces of the life of Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist and sound poet, who left Nazi Germany and spent his last years in Ambleside.
Details : Steamboat Kurt: Ian McMillan searches for traces of the life of Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist and sound poet, who left Nazi Germany and spent his last years in Ambleside.Steamboat Kurt Ian McMillan searches for traces of the life of Kurt Schwitters, Dada artist and sound poet, who left Nazi Germany, was interned in the Isle of Man and spent his last years in Ambleside. He worked as a portrait painter but created some of his most radical work there - transforming a farm building into an environment called the Merzbarn, and writing an anti-Nazi satirical play, The Family Plot. Ian also hears his poetry, talks to those who knew him or know about him and stages a scratch performance of his play on a Windermere steamboat

Starts 2007-02-24 21:15:00, Ends 2007-02-24 21:45:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : The Sleepover: Shut away for 20 hours in a humble house and barn beside a creek, Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.
Details : The Sleepover: Shut away for 20 hours in a humble house and barn beside a creek, Judith Kampfner explores Jackson Pollock's domestic world.

Starts 2007-06-16 20:00:00, Ends 2007-06-16 20:20:00 and is on for 20 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town. Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood.
Details : Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town. Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood.Blackpool: The Greatest Show Town Film-maker Ken Loach returns to Blackpool to recollect the summer shows of his boyhood. Focusing on the comedy acts and the working class resort he remembers, he paints a picture of the northern holiday town at the peak of its popularity in the 1940s.

Starts 2007-06-23 19:45:00, Ends 2007-06-23 20:15:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Ports, by Paul Farley: In this evocative radio poem, three ports, Carthage, Liverpool and Rotterdam, speak to each other across the centuries and down the sea lanes.
Details : Ports, by Paul Farley: In this evocative radio poem, three ports, Carthage, Liverpool and Rotterdam, speak to each other across the centuries and down the sea lanes.Ports By Paul Farley In this evocative radio poem, three ports, Carthage, Liverpool and Rotterdam, speak to each other across the centuries and down the sea lanes. From the ruins of the great Phoenician harbour, we follow the radar-blip of commerce as it travels on from the abandoned Liverpool dockside, to the cranes and containers of Europe's busiest port.

Starts 2007-06-30 20:30:00, Ends 2007-06-30 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Horse Whisperer: Director Lou Stein and composer Deirdre Gribbin create an portrait of Stephen 'Yarmy' Dyble and his almost magical ability to turn problem horses into champions.
Details : Horse Whisperer: Director Lou Stein and composer Deirdre Gribbin create an portrait of Stephen 'Yarmy' Dyble and his almost magical ability to turn problem horses into champions.Horse Whisperer Stephen 'Yarmy' Dyble is a familiar figure at Newmarket Racecourse, known by trainers as the man to turn to when only his horse whispering talents will calm difficult thoroughbreds. After months of following the training techniques of Yarmy, director Lou Stein and composer Deirdre Gribbin create an impressionistic portrait of the horseman and his almost magical ability to turn problem horses into champions.

Starts 2007-07-14 21:10:00, Ends 2007-07-14 21:30:00 and is on for 20 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Maysles in the Dakota: Paul McCartney and Martin Scorsese explore the life and times of Albert Maysles who played a key role in the 20th-century documentary film-making revolution.
Details : Maysles in the Dakota: Paul McCartney and Martin Scorsese explore the life and times of Albert Maysles who played a key role in the 20th-century documentary film-making revolution.Maysles in the Dakota Paul McCartney and Martin Scorsese explore the life and times of Albert Maysles who, with his brother David, played an important role in the mid-20th-century documentary film-making revolution, developing the direct cinema genre in classics such as What's Happening, The Beatles in the USA and Gimme Shelter.

Starts 2007-07-21 20:00:00, Ends 2007-07-21 20:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Communicating Underwater: Lisa Walker is a classically trained musician who has travelled to the Pacific to collaborate with musicians of the underwater world - humpback whales.
Details : Communicating Underwater: Lisa Walker is a classically trained musician who has travelled to the Pacific to collaborate with musicians of the underwater world - humpback whales.Communicating Underwater Lisa Walker is a classically trained musician who has taken her music out onto Pacific waters to collaborate with musicians of the underwater world - humpback whales. Combining Lisa's music with her journey into scientific exploration of the whales' song, the programme dives into the haunting yet magical underwater musical world of the humpback whale.

Starts 2007-07-28 20:30:00, Ends 2007-07-28 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Ivories in the Outback: A radiophonic survey of pioneer pianos, harmoniums and organs which have arrived in outback Australia since white settlement.
Details : Ivories in the Outback: A radiophonic survey of pioneer pianos, harmoniums and organs which have arrived in outback Australia since white settlement.Ivories in the Outback A radiophonic survey of pioneer pianos, harmoniums and organs which have arrived in outback Australia since white settlement. Australia's very first piano was dumped on the beach at Sydney cove in 1788, just after arriving on the first fleet from England. In 1888, it was estimated that there were 700,000 pianos already imported into Australia: that's one piano for every three people then living on the fifth continent. This programme consists of a series of cameos featuring various instruments and their stories. Historic texts are spoken by actors, while contemporary voices from outback Australia 'sing up' the stories surrounding the selected keyboard instruments. There are interviews with the collectors, the accidental finders and the small but dedicated group of improvisers actively seeking ruined instruments.

Starts 2007-08-04 20:00:00, Ends 2007-08-04 20:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2007-10-27 20:30:00, Ends 2007-10-27 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Rock's DNA - Portrait of a Guitar Chord: An exploration of the Jimi Chord, a chord found in the opening of Hendrix's Purple Haze that unlocks the window into the soul of rock music.
Details : Rock's DNA - Portrait of a Guitar Chord: An exploration of the Jimi Chord, a chord found in the opening of Hendrix's Purple Haze that unlocks the window into the soul of rock music.Rock's DNA - Portrait of a Guitar Chord Embedded in the riffs to Purple Haze and Foxy Lady there's a guitar chord that's saturated in the blues, that's jazz-inflected and inclined to funk but, above all, speaks of rock. The Jimi Chord, a conflicted major-minor chord with a flattened seventh, unlocks the window into the soul of rock music and much more besides. With contributions from famous axemen such as Steve Howe (Yes), Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake), and John Campbell (Are You Experienced?).

Starts 2007-11-17 22:00:00, Ends 2007-11-17 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Dreaming of Osama: Usually he appears on videos, uploaded to radical Moslem sites, but since 9/11 Bin Laden has also been appearing in people's dreams all over the West.
Details : Dreaming of Osama: Usually he appears on videos, uploaded to radical Moslem sites, but since 9/11 Bin Laden has also been appearing in people's dreams all over the West.Dreaming of Osama He has a way of lying low, just long enough for you to almost forget about him, and then when you do, he makes an unwanted reappearance. Osama Bin Laden. Usually the strangely mild-mannered man appears on videos, uploaded to radical Moslem sites, but since 9/11 he has also been appearing in people's dreams all over the West. Pejk Malinovski's soundscape of real dreams and reflections on security gauges the impact of the 'War on Terror' on our collective unconscious.

Starts 2007-11-24 21:30:00, Ends 2007-11-24 22:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : The Refuge Box: A new radio poem by Katrina Porteous on the subject of the Refuge Box, a wooden cabin on stilts half way between Holy Island and the mainland of Northumbria.
Details : The Refuge Box: A new radio poem by Katrina Porteous on the subject of the Refuge Box, a wooden cabin on stilts half way between Holy Island and the mainland of Northumbria.The Refuge Box Half way between Holy Island and the mainland of Northumbria, a flight of steps leads to a wooden cabin on stilts. It is the Refuge Box, built to save people cut off by the tide from being swept away and drowned. This is the focus of a new radio poem by Katrina Porteous, whose poetry, recorded all over Holy Island and in the Refuge Box itself, is interspersed with other voices, including island fishermen who remember rescues and tragedies, the coastguard and lifeboat crew, the bird warden, the Franciscan vicar of Holy Island, and a refugee who fled her West African homeland to seek sanctuary in Britain. Beyond the human voices is the poetry of the place itself, the seals singing, the wheeze of swans flying over Holy Island, sudden jet fighters protecting this sanctuary yet violating its peace and, always, the wind and the sea.

Starts 2007-12-08 21:15:00, Ends 2007-12-08 21:45:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx: A tour of the Woodlawn Cemetery in New York's Bronx, which holds the graves of jazz luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Coleman Hawkins.
Details : Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx: A tour of the Woodlawn Cemetery in New York's Bronx, which holds the graves of jazz luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Coleman Hawkins.Jazz Ghosts in the Bronx A tour of the vast Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, which is the final resting place for numerous jazz luminaries including Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver and Max Roach. With contributions from historian Susan Olsen, novelist Laura Shaine Cunningham and musician Maxine Roach, daughter of Max Roach. Plus original music by Iain Ballamy and Ashley Slater.

Starts 2007-12-15 21:30:00, Ends 2007-12-15 22:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2007-12-22 22:00:00, Ends 2007-12-22 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Dream Astronomy: Exploring letters to the Mount Wilson Observatory sent by people who had acquired information about the universe without the use of a telescope.
Details : Dream Astronomy: Exploring letters to the Mount Wilson Observatory sent by people who had acquired information about the universe without the use of a telescope.Dream Astronomy In the early years of the 20th century, letters arrived at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California written by people from all over the world who wanted to tell the astronomers information about the universe that they had acquired without using the observatory's giant telescope. The letters contained details of experiments, observations and intuitions, and read like an alternative history of space. With John Moraitis, Kerry Shale, Barbara Barnes and Jennifer Lee Jellicorse, plus the music of Olivier Messiaen and Urmas Sisask.

Starts 2008-01-05 22:00:00, Ends 2008-01-05 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Behind God's Back: A look back at the case of the poisoning of 50 men in Nagyrev in Hungary, with archives from the trial, press reports and the memories of a resident of the town.
Details : Behind God's Back: A look back at the case of the poisoning of 50 men in Nagyrev in Hungary, with archives from the trial, press reports and the memories of a resident of the town.Behind God's Back Nagyrev was a sleepy village in a remote part of Hungary - until a spate of mysterious poisonings made it big news. Nearly 50 of the town's men lay prematurely dead in the cemetery. Their bodies were found to be full of arsenic - and the suspects were their wives. What caused the women of Nagyrev to poison their husbands? Was it, as commentators at the time suggested, the impact of World War I or of social change? Was it revenge for their husbands' drinking and violence? The programme reconstructs the facts of a baffling mass-murder with archives from the trial, press reports and the memories of one Nagyrev resident still living who remembers the case.

Starts 2008-01-26 22:00:00, Ends 2008-01-26 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : The Wall of a Million Bricks: Belfast-born DJ and film composer David Holmes weaves a soundtrack through stories of people on both sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland.
Details : The Wall of a Million Bricks: Belfast-born DJ and film composer David Holmes weaves a soundtrack through stories of people on both sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland.The Wall of a Million Bricks In September 1969, Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Freeland, the most senior figure of the occupying British Forces in Northern Ireland, said that peace lines - solid walls separating communities - would be a temporary affair. Today, despite relative harmony in Northern Ireland, there are over 40 peace lines keeping Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods apart. Belfast-born DJ and film composer David Holmes weaves a soundtrack through stories told by people on both sides of the ever-continuing divide.

Starts 2008-02-02 22:30:00, Ends 2008-02-02 23:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster: A discussion on psychological manipulation, using the mathematical concept of the Mobius Strip - a piece of paper with only one side.
Details : Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster: A discussion on psychological manipulation, using the mathematical concept of the Mobius Strip - a piece of paper with only one side.Mobius Strip and the Confidence Trickster Forensic Psychiatrist Anne MacDonald, architect Cecil Balmond and the fiance of a compulsive liar try to understand the process of psychological manipulation in humans using the mathematical concept of the Mobius Strip - a piece of paper with only one side.

Starts 2008-02-16 21:45:00, Ends 2008-02-16 22:15:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Symphonies of Wind Turbines: A sonic meditation on wind turbines, with turbine sounds recorded on location in Norfolk blended with contributions from poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.
Details : Symphonies of Wind Turbines: A sonic meditation on wind turbines, with turbine sounds recorded on location in Norfolk blended with contributions from poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.Symphonies of Wind Turbines A sonic meditation on wind turbines and their place in today's environment, recorded in Norfolk and the Fenlands. Including contributions from poet Kevin Crossley-Holland, architecture critic Jonathan Glancey and local residents, along with music created from the sounds of the turbines themselves.

Starts 2008-03-08 22:15:00, Ends 2008-03-08 22:35:00 and is on for 20 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2008-03-15 22:00:00, Ends 2008-03-15 22:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Out of the Mouths: A soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint, focusing on the way in which cries become sounds, then babbles, words and then sentences.
Details : Out of the Mouths: A soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint, focusing on the way in which cries become sounds, then babbles, words and then sentences.Out of the Mouths A soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint, concentrating on the way in which cries become sounds, then babbles, words and then sentences. The programme features fly-on-the-wall observations of several children at various stages in their linguistic development alongside contributions from language and child experts.

Starts 2008-05-10 21:00:00, Ends 2008-05-10 21:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : A Map of Paradise: An impressionistic feature on the notion of paradise - lost, sought and found, exploring artistic, literary and commercial perspectives.
Details : A Map of Paradise: An impressionistic feature on the notion of paradise - lost, sought and found, exploring artistic, literary and commercial perspectives.A Map of Paradise An impressionistic feature on the notion of paradise - lost, sought and found. In 1442, a Venetian cartographer in 1442 firmly situated paradise at the most eastern edge of India. For a young film company location scout, it is indistinguishable from the beach at Applecross on the west coast of Scotland, whereas others recognise it in the English country garden at Sissinghurst, Kent. For one of the architects responsible for a new retail experience in Paradise Street, Liverpool, it can be glimpsed in the joy in existence he feels with each new dawn.

Starts 2008-05-24 20:00:00, Ends 2008-05-24 20:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : The Wash: Poet Laureate Andrew Motion explores the great wilderness on the east coast of the country, known as the Wash.
Details : The Wash: Poet Laureate Andrew Motion explores the great wilderness on the east coast of the country, known as the Wash.

Starts 2008-05-31 20:15:00, Ends 2008-05-31 20:45:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Staring at the Wall: Alan Dein captures the sounds and thoughts of life outside the walls of Pentonville prison in North London, talking to a former inmate who now lives nearby.
Details : Staring at the Wall: Alan Dein captures the sounds and thoughts of life outside the walls of Pentonville prison in North London, talking to a former inmate who now lives nearby.Staring at the Wall Alan Dein captures the sounds and thoughts of everyday life just outside the walls of Pentonville prison in North London, building up a portrait of enclosure, freedom and imagination. He talks to Bob, who was born close to Pentonville and grew up in the area. Bob rented a flat across the road with his girlfriend, became an inmate himself and watched her comings and goings on the street outside. Now a free man for many years he lives just feet from the prison wall, but this time on the outside, staring at the wall first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Starts 2008-06-07 20:30:00, Ends 2008-06-07 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : UK Crossfade: Charting a journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of long, very slow and sometimes imperceptible fades from one location to another.
Details : UK Crossfade: Charting a journey in sound, moving across the UK in a series of long, very slow and sometimes imperceptible fades from one location to another.UK Crossfade Charting a journey in sound through the UK, moving from west to east, and north to south, in a series of long, very slow and sometimes almost imperceptible fades from one location to another. At the heart of the programme are location recordings and soundscapes from a wide range of places across the country - from the morning boats in a Devon harbour to an evening on the seafront in Skegness, via the daytime streets and quads of Oxford and a street parade in Spalding, to the sounds of rural Scotland and urban Lancashire. The journey follows a simple pattern, which listeners are invited to puzzle out for themselves.

Starts 2008-06-14 21:30:00, Ends 2008-06-14 22:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Hearts, Lungs and Minds: Documentary by sound artist John Wynne and photographer Tim Wainwright recording the experiences of Harefield Hospital's heart and lung transplant patients.
Details : Hearts, Lungs and Minds: Documentary by sound artist John Wynne and photographer Tim Wainwright recording the experiences of Harefield Hospital's heart and lung transplant patients.Hearts, Lungs and Minds A documentary by sound artist John Wynne and photographer Tim Wainwright, featuring recordings from Harefield Hospital, one of the world's leading centres for heart and lung transplants. During a year spent at the hospital as artists-in-residence, they listened to patients, to the devices they were attached to or had implanted in them and also to the hospital itself, weaving these recordings together to explore the experiences of transplant patients and the important issues raised by this invasive, last-option medical procedure.

Starts 2008-06-21 19:30:00, Ends 2008-06-21 20:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2008-08-16 21:00:00, Ends 2008-08-16 21:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2008-08-23 21:00:00, Ends 2008-08-23 21:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2008-09-05 21:00:00, Ends 2008-09-05 21:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

Starts 2008-09-12 21:00:00, Ends 2008-09-12 21:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : When Silence Sings: A sonic reflection on the city of Venice, in which it is portrayed through the ears of some of its residents, including Tonie, a deaf Norwegian psychologist.
Details : When Silence Sings: A sonic reflection on the city of Venice, in which it is portrayed through the ears of some of its residents, including Tonie, a deaf Norwegian psychologist.When Silence Sings A sonic reflection on the city of Venice, which is portrayed through the ears of some of its residents, including Tonie, a Norwegian psychologist who has been deaf from birth. She leads us down alleyways and into hidden little pockets of the city, all the while meditating on what role not being able to hear has played in her life and, in turn, inviting us to reflect on how we listen to our everyday lives.

Starts 2008-11-22 21:30:00, Ends 2008-11-22 22:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Crossing the Same River Twice: Dramatist Lou Stein draws upon the many sound recordings he has made during his life, exploring the tensions between selective memory and identity.
Details : Crossing the Same River Twice: Dramatist Lou Stein draws upon the many sound recordings he has made during his life, exploring the tensions between selective memory and identity.Crossing the Same River Twice Dramatist and theatre director Lou Stein draws upon the many sound recordings he has made during his life in a distinctive audio journey that explores the tensions between selective memory and identity. It takes him from his South Brooklyn childhood to citizenship in the UK, via Belfast and the Outer Hebrides, to becoming the father of a child born with Down's syndrome. Randomly recorded sound, Lou has found, is an very precise trigger for memory.

Starts 2008-11-29 20:30:00, Ends 2008-11-29 21:00:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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Summary : Mole Jazz: Portrait of the late Ed Dipple, an obsessive collector who ran what has been described as the world's greatest second-hand jazz shop in a corner of London's Kings Cross.
Details : Mole Jazz: Portrait of the late Ed Dipple, an obsessive collector who ran what has been described as the world's greatest second-hand jazz shop in a corner of London's Kings Cross.Mole Jazz A portrait of the late Ed Dipple, an obsessive collector who ran what has been described as the world's greatest second-hand jazz shop in a shabby corner of London's Kings Cross. Ed's widow Leni, a poet, interviews old friends such as saxophonist Bobby Wellins and drummer Spike Wells.

Starts 2008-12-06 21:15:00, Ends 2008-12-06 21:45:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 3

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