Orderly Mouthpiece Spent
"Radiophonic reverie of the most eccentric kind"
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Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian
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Orderly Mouthpiece Spent was a specially commissioned programme to immediately follow the live broadcast of The Last Night of the Proms, 2018, BBC Radio 3.
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Devised, written and edited by Neil Luck in collaboration with a host of artists from ARCO, squib-box and beyond.
Produced by Philip Tagney
Presented by Tom Service
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Handed the keys to BBC Radio 3 directly after The Last night of the Proms, this programme sutures together a dirtied reflection of that festival, filtered through a psycho-melo-drama for presenter around the decline of traditional, virtuosity, and the human intellect.
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The show features all original material by Neil Luck and collaborators:
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Fiona Bevan, Adam de la Cour, Kit Downes, Benedict Taylor, Tom Jackson, Dominic Lash, Matthew Lee Knowles, Lore Lixenberg, Musarc, Hatsune Miku, Lynette Quek, Federico Reuben, and Max Wainwright.
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The programme was recorded largely in Maida Vale, and Broadcast on the 8th of September 2018, as a special edition of the Hear & Now programme - Radio 3's flagship contemporary music show.
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