Welcome to Friends of Radio 3's new website

FoR3 is a listeners' group independent of Radio 3 and the BBC. We are pleased to help with any queries if we can, but for detailed information about the station you will need to contact the BBC directly. Please note that this is not a BBC site.

The BBC promises

Following the leak to the Murdoch press (how did that happen?) of the BBC’s plans for a strategic, financial and ethical(?) shake-up, the publication of the review has been brought forward and the BBC Trust has hastily produced its public consultation survey. It is important that the corporation is held to its commitments for a more serious public service. More …
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Looking ahead ~

Friday, 12 March at 7pm: A chance to hear Benjamin Britten’s piano concerto, performed in a live concert from the Bridgewater Hall. Steven Osborne is the soloist, with the BBC Philharmonic and Ludovic Morlot renewing his association with the orchestra. Other works: Stravinsky, Dumbarton Oaks, Sibelius,The Oceanides, Debussy, La mer. Details

RAJAR days

The release of RAJAR's quarterly listening figures always provides a hook for a flurry of media headlines, of triumph and failure. In fact they are merely a glimpse at an ongoing process. The significance of the ratings lies more in what they were and what they will be than in any single current set of figures. More…
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Now iPlaying ~

Pre-Hear features the work of an established generation of contemporary UK composers: Anthony Payne’s The Stones and Lonely Places Sing (Jane’s Minstrels/ Montgomery), Anthony Gilbert’s ...into the Gyre of a Madder Dance (RNCM Wind Ensemble/Rundell) and Judith Weir’s Piano Concerto (soloist Xak Bjerken, Ensemble X/Scatterday). Until Sat 13 March. Listen

Radio 3 listings

Did you know you can download a printable file of Radio 3's programmes each week?

Bookmark this page - it's usually updated on Friday evenings. Andrew Slater's blog also has direct links to the iPlayer which function once the programme has been broadcast.
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Announcements

The blog has now been launched for the discussion of topical issues relating to the BBC, Radio 3, music, the arts, cultural matters and general broadcasting issues.

In the coming weeks we shall be detailing the issues which we have taken up with the BBC in recent years and the outcomes.

Listen live to Radio 3 here