Extra particulars have been introduced concerning the particular eight-hour, continuous broadcast of archive speech that may kind a part of Radio 3’s BBC100 celebrations.
On Sunday 30 Oct0ber, the station is marking the BBC’s centenary (100 years because the first BBC Radio broadcast in November 1922) with an eight-hour broadcast of fabric from key moments in historical past from the Nineteen Twenties to the present occasions.
The speech excerpts will embrace Winston Churchill addressing the nation, the 1926 Common Strike, and US President Richard Nixon’s well-known speech when the Watergate affair broke. The eight-hour broadcast will even be soundtracked with music from the period, by composers together with Benjamin Britten and Delia Derbyshire (pictured high).
The programme, entitled Soundscape of a Century, can be broadcast from 11am to 7pm. It would even be accessible to hearken to in its entirety on BBC Sounds, with brief introductions offered by a line-up of presenters.
Soundscape of a Century varieties components of a wider set of Radio 3 programmes marking BBC100. These embrace a brand new collection offered by acclaimed Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds, plus particular editions of Composer of the Week, Early Music Present, Radio 3 Lunchtime Live performance, Report Assessment, Sound of Cinema, The Listening Service and extra.
