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When it started in 1946, the Third Programme broadcast for six hours each evening from 6.00 pm to midnight, although its output was cut to just 24 hours a week from October 1957, with the early part of weekday evenings being given over to educational programming (known as "Network Three"). The
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experiment dedicated to the discerning or "high-brow" listener from an educated, minority audience. Its founders' aims were seen as promoting "something fundamental to our civilisation" and as contributing to "the refinement of society". Its musical output provided a wide range of serious
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The decision to close down the Third Programme was opposed by many within the BBC, some of them senior figures. Within the music division, a 'BBC rebellion' gathered force, with its most vocal members including
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The network became a principal patron of the arts, within commissioned many music works for broadcast by the BBC Music Department, playing an important role in the development of the career of composers such as
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until 1964. Voice formed a much higher proportion of its output than the later Radio 3, with specially commissioned plays, poetry readings, talks and documentaries. Nationally known intellectuals such as
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himself had during his time at the BBC been against segmenting audiences by splitting programming genres across different networks. From the start, though, it had prominent supporters: the
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The Third's existence was controversial from the beginning, partly because of perceived "elitism" – it was sometimes criticised for broadcasting programmes of "two
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on 30 September 1967, before all the elements of the BBC's "third network" were finally absorbed into Radio 3 with rebranding effect from Saturday 4 April 1970.
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The Third Programme's contribution to contemporary poetry and criticism was significant, under producers and presenters such as
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This situation continued until the launch on 22 March 1965 of the BBC Music Programme, which began regular daily broadcasts of
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was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by
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frequencies were also used during daytime hours to broadcast complete ball-by-ball commentary on
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talking" – and also for the cost of its output relative to a small listener
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The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the Third Programme and Radio Three
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Culture and Consensus: England, Art and Politics Since 1940
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and live concerts, as well as contemporary composers and
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