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It’s International Women’s Day! Today, Sarah celebrates music by women composers, from nostalgic film music by Rachel Portman to a sonorous oboe melody in Ruth Gipps’ Song for Orchestra and an uplifting orchestral Benediction by Margaret Bonds. There’s also a chance to hear the whole of Louise Farrenc’s soaring first symphony, and music from Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Singers is today’s Choral Reflection. Also, we travel back to medieval times with Kassia and Hildegard of Bingen… A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3.