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The '''BBC Third Programme''' was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by [[BBC Radio 3]]. It first went on the air on 29 September 1946 and became one of the leading cultural and intellectual forces in [[Great Britain|Britain]], playing an important role in disseminating the arts, playingbroadcasting music (mainly [[classical music|classical]]), plays, documentary features and talks.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hewison |first=Robert |year=1995 |title=Culture and Consensus: England, Art and Politics Since 1940 |page=55 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing]] |___location=London |isbn=0-413-69060-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHDbCQAAQBAJ |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>{{page needed|date=February 2020}} It was the [[BBC]]'s third national radio network, the other two being the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]] (mainly speech-based) and the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]], principally devoted to [[light entertainment]] and [[light music|music]].

==History==