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OU on the BBC: Sacred Music - About the seriesProduction team

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

25 March 2011

Simon Russell Beale takes a tour of globe tracing the origins of music designed to praise glory. Read more : OU on the BBC: Sacred Music - About the series

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13 March 2008

Music was vitally important to the Vatican - but in the 16th Century it raised its game to a new level. Read more : OU on the BBC: Sacred Music - Palestrina and the Popes

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By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

13 March 2008

Renowned actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explored the flowering of Western sacred music in this four part documentary series for BBC FOUR. Read more : OU on the BBC: Sacred Music - The Gothic Revolution

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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