interesting radio programme on BBC radio 3, 6 days left to listen to online archives
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/2008/09/07

19:25 -20:25 Sunday Feature
In the Beginning Was the Song

Ivan Hewett explores the origins and evolution of music.The urge to make music is rooted deep in human nature, but why that urge arose in the first place is a hotly debated question that divides the scientific community. Ivan Hewett goes in search of the answer, drawing on a fascinating body of evidence that ranges from Palaeolithic cave settlements and observations of apes making music, to laboratory studies of infants' musical abilities, and a new brain-scanning experiment to map the neural basis of the music faculty. (repeat of broadcast 9 Dec 07)

another broadcast yesterday, also archived for the rest of the week is: 6 days left to listen
Sunday 12:00 -13:00 Private Passions
Folk singer Judy Collins chooses music by Rachmaninov, Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.