{"id":20423,"date":"2022-10-25T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=174261"},"modified":"2022-10-25T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:28:18","slug":"churchill-nixon-more-details-on-r3s-eight-hour-music-and-speech-marathon","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/churchill-nixon-more-details-on-r3s-eight-hour-music-and-speech-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill, Nixon: more details on R3\u2019s eight-hour music and speech marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steve Wright\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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More details have been announced about the special eight-hour, non-stop broadcast of archive speech that will form part of Radio 3\u2019s BBC100 celebrations<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 30 Oct0ber, the station is marking the BBC\u2019s centenary (100 years since the first BBC Radio broadcast in November 1922) with an eight-hour broadcast of material from key moments in history from the 1920s to the current times.<\/p>\n

The speech excerpts will include Winston Churchill addressing the nation, the 1926 General Strike, and US President Richard Nixon\u2019s famous speech when the Watergate affair broke. The eight-hour broadcast will also be soundtracked with music from the era, by composers including Benjamin Britten and Delia Derbyshire (pictured top).<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Britten will be among the composers who feature in Soundscape of a Century<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

The programme, entitled Soundscape of a Century<\/em>, will be broadcast from 11am to 7pm. It will also\u00a0be available to listen to in its entirety on BBC Sounds, with short introductions provided by a line-up of presenters.<\/p>\n

Soundscape of a Century <\/em>forms parts of a wider set of Radio 3 programmes marking BBC100<\/strong><\/a>. These include a new series presented by acclaimed Icelandic musician \u00d3lafur Arnalds, plus special editions of\u00a0Composer of the Week, Early Music Show, Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Record Review, Sound of Cinema, The Listening Service\u00a0<\/em>and more.<\/p>\n