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BBC Radio 3 - Live Music and the Arts Radio 3 broadcasts on 90-92 FM, DAB digital radio, digital TV and online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3. Freeview 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin Media 903 Radio 3 is a national BBC radio station in the UK, mainly focussed on classical music but also featuring jazz, contemporary and world music, poetry, drama and the arts in general. It was launched in 1946 as The Third Programme (complementing the existing

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  4. R3Arts: Proms Literary Festival
  5. R3Arts: Darwin, Marx and Freud
  6. R3Arts: David Aaronovitch, Neil Gaiman and Sue Townsend
  7. R3Arts: Martin Amis, feminism and cloud computing
  8. R3Arts: Slavoj Zizek; Roger Scruton; and Jules et Jim
  9. R3Arts: Paul Davies, what is art, the psychology of time, and Cahiers du Cinema
  10. R3Arts: Tony Blair, The Blitz & David Lloyd George
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  1. R3Arts: Mrs Gaskell, Gaugin, Colm Toibin & Correct English
  2. R3Arts: Is the Enlightenment still relevant today?
  3. R3Arts: Stephen Fry, Grayson Perry and the return of Character
  4. R3Arts: Philip Pullman, Shakespeare's work and Sir Anthony Caro
  5. R3Arts: The Satanic Verses
  6. R3Arts: Tariq Ramadan, Susie Orbach, accents in film and 'liberal facism'
  7. R3Arts: Anthony Browne; Futurism; adjectives; John Keane
  8. R3Arts: Racine, Re-writing, Resurrection
  9. R3Arts: Helene Cixous, social networks, Strawberry Hill, Hilary Mantel and Jonathan Safran Foer
  10. R3Arts: technology & democracy, historical drama, Islamic art, and the 1969 moonlanding
  11. R3Arts: Gordimer, Iannucci, Norman Conquests and Kingship.
  12. R3Arts: Jonathan Franzen, Mona Saudi & Peter Ackroyd
  13. R3Arts: Richard Cohen and The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
  14. R3Arts: Danny Boyle, Nev Schulman, David Harding and Will Self
  15. R3Arts: JG Ballard, Azar Nafisi and St George's Day
  16. R3Arts: Free Thinking
  17. R3Arts: Black Swan, Wilbert Rideau, Rudyard Kipling & Mary Midgley
  18. R3Arts: 07 Feb: David Chipperfield & Colin Thubron
  19. R3Arts: Progression, Diaghilev & John Pawson
  20. R3Arts: Dave Eggars, Van Gogh Letters & David Chipperfield
  21. R3Arts: Tracey Emin; Isaiah Berlin & a new constitution
  22. R3Arts: Robin Hood, Europe Crisis, neuroscientists Chris and Uta Frith, Picasso.
  23. R3Arts: Margaret Drabble; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; the economy
  24. R3Arts: Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Aaron Sorkin, Howard Jacobson
  25. R3Arts: Italy, David Baddiel, Frank Skinner, existence
  26. R3Arts: Austerity, Spies, Artist's Flaws & the Sun and Moon
  27. R3Arts: Quentin Blake, Christopher Hampton, Dominic Dromgoole & Poetry.
  28. R3Arts: Amos Oz, the Atomic Age and David Willetts on Margaret Thatcher.
  29. R3Arts: Terry Eagleton, The Master and Margarita, Michael Goldfarb and Edith Hall
  30. R3Arts: Zadie Smith, Shlomo Sand and more from Free Thinking
  31. R3Arts: baby boomers, finger pointing, Peter Brook and our images of Nelson Mandela
  32. R3Arts: David Simon, Elaine Showalter, Zhoa Ziyang & Polish theatre.
  33. R3Arts: 5 October 2009
  34. R3Arts: Edmund White, Will Self on WG Sebald and James Earl Jones
  35. R3Arts: Free Thinking Lecture: Prof Tanya Byron
  36. R3Arts: James Lovelock; John Humphries & Catholic and Protestant Art
  37. R3Arts: Malcolm Gladwell, Saul Steinberg & Claude Levi Strauss
  38. R3Arts: Larkin's Letters, Mary Warnock & H P Lovecraft
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  40. R3Arts: The Free Thinking Opening Lecture - Will Self
  41. R3Arts: Ken Livingstone, William Orbit plus highlights from Free Thinking
  42. R3Arts: Karen Armstrong, Arundhati Roy and Timothy Garton Ash
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  44. R3Arts: Daniel Tammet, civilian casualties in war, Frank McGuinness and John Mortimer
  45. R3Arts: Twenty Minutes: Proms Plus
  46. R3Arts: Olivia de Havilland, Basam Abu Sharif, Ulysses and Katyn
  47. R3Arts: Antonia Fraser, Barbara Ehnrenreich & Tom Shakespeare
  48. R3Arts: Douglas Hurd, Ron Arad, Public Ethics; The Lovely Bones
  49. R3Arts: Amy Bloom, JMG Le Clezio, Depression & Atheism
  50. R3Arts: Billy Bragg, China, Beat Poets, Michael Grade
  51. R3Arts:Laurie Anderson, Bill Fontana, Tony Judt & City & Life
  52. R3Arts: Penelope Leach, Proudhon, and Sean Spence
  53. R3Arts: The Second Sex; Russell T Davies & Creative Partnerships
  54. R3Arts: Atul Gawande, The Woman in White, 1492 and Chekhov
  55. R3Arts: Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech
  56. R3Arts: Jim Loach, Victorian Prostitutes, Mrs. Dalloway
  57. R3Arts: Peter Singer, Peter Ackroyd, Roberto Benigni.
  58. R3Arts: Bernard-Henri Levy, Art Spiegelman, Sydney Opera House
  59. R3Arts: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Lisa Jardine and the street versus the internet
  60. R3Arts: Pinter's Homecoming, Civilisation and John Brewer
  61. R3Arts: Maggi Hambling, Mark Ravenhill, and Japan
  62. R3Arts: Peter Greenaway, Victoria & Albert & Angels
  63. R3Arts: Kevin McCloud, Craig Raine and Speed Dating with a Thinker
  64. R3Arts: 14 April 11: Edna O'Brien, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  65. R3Arts: Seamus Heaney, Gillian Slovo & the future of Men
  66. R3Arts: Francis Fukuyama, train murders, Dining with Alice, Vidal Sassoon
  67. R3Arts: Molly Dineen, Brian Christian, Bin Laden, Shah of Iran
  68. R3Arts: James Ellroy, David Miliband, 'The Humbling' review, Sport or The Arts, Ian Blair
  69. R3Arts: Philip Roth Interview
  70. R3Arts: Butlins, Herzog, Jennifer Egan, Pet Shop Boys
  71. R3Arts: Henry Moore review and speed dating with a thinker
  72. R3Arts: P D James, Sir Harold Evans and Chief Bill Bratton
  73. R3Arts: Tony Benn, Gregory Doran and Baz Lurhmann's Australia
  74. R3Arts: Mark Twain, Frederick Wiseman and prints at the British Museum
  75. R3Arts: Anne Enright, David Thompson & Climate Science
  76. R3Arts: The Quiet Carriage
  77. R3Arts: Aie Weiwei, the value of Arts & All About Love
  78. R3Arts: Where the Wild Things Are, Julia Neuberger, Herta Muller
  79. R3Arts: Lord Ian Blair, PJ O'Rouke, Pat Barker, Michael Holroyd
  80. R3Arts: Malcolm X, Diana Athill and Ai Wei Wei
  81. R3Arts: Stephen Soderburgh, Stephen Poliakoff, and Berlin
  82. R3Arts: Roma Today
  83. R3Arts: David Hare, Bill Drummond and the Holocaust on screen
  84. R3Arts: Economists - a Night Waves special
  85. R3Arts: Nightwaves
  86. R3Arts: Edward St Aubyn, Super Injunctions & Pakistan
  87. R3Arts: Cornelia Parker, absent fathers, Charles de Gaulle, historical fiction, Sally Mann.
  88. R3Arts: It's Big and It's Beautiful - The Rise of Retro Tech
  89. R3Arts: Barack Obama biography, E.M. Forster, Argentina and football, opera debate.
  90. R3Arts: Arundhati Roy, Siddharta Deb and Retromania

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