Arts episodes
3 episodes so far
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21 min
The Sound of Power: How Music Became a Tool of Control and Resistance
From royal courts to protest movements, the story of how sound became humanity's most subversive force
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10 min
Notes on a Page: The Long Struggle to Write Music Down
A three-thousand-year-old hymn no one can agree on, a monk who gave us do-re-mi, and the sounds no score has ever captured
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20 min
The Rebel Frequencies: Outlaw Radio and the Music It Set Free
Ships anchored beyond the law, DJs the BBC banned and then hired, and tower-block transmitters that launched grime
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