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The Third Programme is born and the BBC takes its first steps out of Reith's shadow.

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Joseph Adams

Ah yes, the third programme. Which led to one of my favourite Goon Show Jokes. Wallace Greenslade: And then, on The Third Programme... *Silence*

Paul

Hardcore? Sibelius and Britten? If you say so.

Bob the Fish Productions

They were contemporary and vital at the time, even if Sibelius was well into his Silence by then.

Paul

True, but the entire world of musical possibilities that were opened up by composers such as Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Varese etc cut through the middle-of the-roadness of much of the music of Britten and Silebelius .