Category: Factual
& Arts TV; Radio
3
Date: 18.09.2004
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has
won four awards at Prix Italia, held in Catania, Sicily.
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The Corporation was awarded two out of three awards
in both the Television and Radio categories.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ TWO's film Eroica was awarded the Performing Arts Programme
Award for its dramatisation of the genesis of Beethoven's masterpiece
Symphony No.3, the Eroica.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ FOUR scooped Best Cultural and General Interest
Documentary prize for Arena: The Life and Times of Count Luchino
Visconti.
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The quality of Radio 3 programming was recognised in
two categories - Best Adapted Drama for M and best composed work
for Between The Ears – A Pebble In the Pond, a radiophonic
meditation on memory.
Prix Italia was founded by the Italian public service channel RAI in
1948.
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It is the oldest of the major international broadcasting
festivals with a membership of 80 public and private radio and television
companies representing more than 40 countries from the five continents.
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Originally a radio festival, the Prix Italia awards
prizes for the best drama, documentary and music & arts across radio,
television and the web.
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