The Listening Service

by BBC Radio 3
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Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

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Recent Episodes
  • What's the point of Listening?
    Mar 31, 2024 – 28:34
  • Needle Drop: the power of classical music in film
    Mar 10, 2024 – 28:29
  • Impassioned argument: Elizabeth Maconchy's string quartets
    Mar 3, 2024 – 28:40
  • Songs of the Moon
    Feb 25, 2024 – 28:28
  • 'Pathétique'
    Feb 5, 2024 – 28:35
  • Turangalila!
    Jan 21, 2024 – 29:03
  • Jumping Fleas: the rise and rise of the Ukulele
    Jan 16, 2024 – 29:03
  • Resolutions
    Dec 31, 2023 – 29:03
  • New York, New York!
    Dec 11, 2023 – 29:14
  • The Trombone Section
    Nov 26, 2023 – 29:04
  • The Old Testament of Music
    Nov 19, 2023 – 29:02
  • In it to win it
    Nov 5, 2023 – 29:18
  • Hitting the High Notes
    Oct 29, 2023 – 29:04
  • Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4
    Oct 22, 2023 – 29:06
  • The Ethereal
    Oct 8, 2023 – 29:31
  • Strange Tuning
    Oct 1, 2023 – 30:03
  • Gloria!
    Sep 17, 2023 – 29:03
  • What's the Point of Symphonies?
    Sep 10, 2023 – 29:03
  • Musical Time Travel: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
    Jul 26, 2023 – 29:15
  • What's on the programme?
    Jul 9, 2023 – 29:10
  • Secret Music: Byrd's Masses
    Jul 2, 2023 – 29:24
  • All American Ives?
    Jun 25, 2023 – 29:02
  • Surround Sound: Tallis's Spem in alium
    Jun 18, 2023 – 28:57
  • Artificial intelligence and music
    Jun 4, 2023 – 29:21
  • Ravel's Bolero: A Piece without Music?
    May 28, 2023 – 29:08
  • All the King's Music
    May 7, 2023 – 29:14
  • Once upon a time... The Fairy-tale Operas of Judith Weir
    Apr 23, 2023 – 29:10
  • Wild Isles: Wild Music
    Apr 9, 2023 – 29:23
  • Stravinsky, the puppet master: Petrushka
    Mar 26, 2023 – 29:03
  • Here Comes the Bride
    Mar 19, 2023 – 29:00
  • Bluebeard's Castle: Enter at Your Peril
    Mar 12, 2023 – 29:04
  • Collage, writ large: Berio's Sinfonia
    Mar 5, 2023 – 29:26
  • Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
    Feb 19, 2023 – 29:04
  • Repetition
    Feb 9, 2023 – 28:26
  • Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
    Feb 5, 2023 – 29:05
  • On the March: Pomp, Circumstance and Dam Busters
    Jan 22, 2023 – 29:15
  • David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
    Jan 15, 2023 – 29:06
  • Also Sprach Zarathustra: Strauss’s New Dawn
    Jan 1, 2023 – 29:02
  • Britten's Choral Christmas
    Dec 11, 2022 – 29:13
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Half Man, Half Myth, All Debussy
    Dec 4, 2022 – 29:15
  • Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
    Nov 20, 2022 – 29:04
  • Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory
    Nov 6, 2022 – 29:04
  • The Hebrides Overture: Mendelssohn's melodious cave
    Oct 23, 2022 – 29:07
  • Musical Ecstasy
    Oct 2, 2022 – 29:03
  • Stormy Weather
    Sep 25, 2022 – 29:02
  • The Enchantment of Chant
    Sep 18, 2022 – 29:03
  • Abracadabra
    Sep 11, 2022 – 28:58
  • TV Themes
    Jul 14, 2022 – 28:30
  • The Music of Sound
    Jun 26, 2022 – 29:15
  • What's the point of cadenzas?
    Jun 12, 2022 – 28:53
Recent Reviews
  • axejudge
    Well, I *did* love it . . .
    1. It would never play or download unless you went to the BBC website. 2. Now it won’t even let you listen if you’re in the US. Anything from April forward is blocked. Extremely disappointed. I can’t see any reason to alienate listeners.
  • LongFamilySF
    My current favorite podcast!
    I came upon this when searching for info on Thomas Tallis and went down the rabbit hole! Love Tom Service and the variety of subjects explored in this wonderful podcast that touches on music of all types and styles.
  • Andante'
    The Listening Service
    He’s wonderful. Thank you so much Bravo Bravissimo!!! Excellent Thank you DDH
  • Destael
    Outstanding
    I enjoy all of these presentations. The podcast on Part was especially wonderful on all levels. I’m not a musician so the technical descriptions and musical explanation of how Part works was actually rather thrilling. I’ve long enjoyed and bought his work but didn’t know much about his biographical information or the influences of Bach or Mozart Thank you!
  • ajh111
    Great talk
    Best talk out there about classical music. All the one star reviews are about not being able to download. So counterproductive. I listen on BBC3. I wasn’t able for many months to download through Podcast app. But now I can. Try again you all. Solved the rights issues, it seems. So smart, entertaining.
  • bcbenjam
    Great podcast, can never get it to download
    ☹️
  • overacre
    Disappointing
    Episodes are never available to listen to or download.
  • ¯\_(€)_/¯
    Rarely available
    I’m a subscriber and I would love to listen to this show but most of the time I receive alerts that there’s a new episode, it says unavailable when I try to listen through the podcast app. It’s a shame! I can’t even manage to download episodes.
  • Cal Relsie
    Unavailable
    BBC3 - Is there a rights problem that has you making these unavailable in the USA?
  • Rb1657234
    Fantastic
    Truly a unique podcast, my only qualm is that it's only available to listen when a new episode is aired! Otherwise I get the same error message that others have noted. SOMEONE FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
  • zdr247
    Doesn't work
    Can't listen or download
  • Pandalindsay
    I wish I could listen!
    It won’t let me Access any episodes
  • PyramidKid
    Why doesn't this podcast work?
    Is this a region issue? I'd love to listen to these but they all come up with an 'unavailable' message.
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