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The Third Programme: High Culture for All in Post-War Britain

  • Episode aired Oct 25, 2005
  • 40m
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Documentary about the birth of the BBC's Third Programme (which later became Radio 3). From 1946, the Third Programme embodied the post-war ideal that High Culture could be brought to everyo... Read allDocumentary about the birth of the BBC's Third Programme (which later became Radio 3). From 1946, the Third Programme embodied the post-war ideal that High Culture could be brought to everyone -- a vision shared, briefly, by both Left and Right in post-war British politics.Documentary about the birth of the BBC's Third Programme (which later became Radio 3). From 1946, the Third Programme embodied the post-war ideal that High Culture could be brought to everyone -- a vision shared, briefly, by both Left and Right in post-war British politics.

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    • Rachel Jardine
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    • Francine Stock
    • Asa Briggs
    • Nicholas Kenyon
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      • Rachel Jardine
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    Francine Stock
    Francine Stock
    • Self - Narrator
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    Asa Briggs
    • Self - Historian
    Nicholas Kenyon
    • Self - Controller, Radio 3, 1992-8
    George Steiner
    George Steiner
    • Self - Academic and Writer
    Richard Baker
    • Self - Announcer, Third Programme
    Clement Attlee
    Clement Attlee
    • Self - Prime Minister
    • (archive footage)
    Robert Hewison
    • Self - Cultural Historian
    Allen Lane
    • Self - Founder of Penguin Books
    • (archive footage)
    Richard Hoggart
    • Self - Cultural Critic
    William Haley
    • Self - BBC Director-General, 1944-52
    • (archive footage)
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    Alan Sillitoe
    • Self - Novellist
    Jill Balcon
    Jill Balcon
    • Self - Actress
    Augustus John
    • Self - Painter
    • (archive footage)
    Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov
    • Self - Actor
    • (archive footage)
    Ian Jacob
    • Self - BBC Director-General
    • (archive footage)
    T.S. Eliot
    T.S. Eliot
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      • October 25, 2005 (United Kingdom)
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