Illuminations

The 3MBS Summer Illuminations Season: 28 December–24 February 2025-26 Nine one-hour specials, carefully curated by 3MBS broadcasters, explore topics from asking ‘what might have been?’ from composers who died young to the music of Imogen Holst and lots more in between. Our Summer Illuminations series will entertain and inform over the holiday period. Past programs from our mid-year series are also available below.

John Wilkinson

Felicity Cronan

Michael Leighton Jones

David Taylor

Summer Illuminations Series
  • 4pm Sunday 28 December: Symphonies at Sixteen! Mozart, Schubert, Arriaga and Mendelssohn with Michael Leighton Jones
  • 4pm Sunday 4 January: 1926—The Year in Review with John Wilkinson
  • 4pm Sunday 11 January: A Brief History of the Cello Concerto with Felicity Cronin 
  • 4pm Sunday 18 January: Frank Bridge's Unique Stylistic Musical Journey with David Taylor
  • 4pm Sunday 25 January: Cecil Sharp and Folksongs with John Wilkinson
  • 4pm Sunday 1 February: What Might Have Been with Michael Leighton-Jones
  • 4pm Sunday 8 February: Shostakovish: Verbal Compliance, Musical Defiance with Felicity Cronin
  • 4pm Sunday 15 February: Arnold Bax's Irish Awakening with David Taylor
  • 4pm Sunday 22 February: Imogen Holst - The Reluctant Composer with John Wilkinson