Peace On Earth - Award-winning radio

Today, Christmas Day, at 12 noon SLT (20:00 GMT), Brideswell Stream, http://music2.radioriel.org, we are pleased to present a special broadcast of a remarkable piece of radio. Peace On Earth was created by composer Richard Attree at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on Christmas Day 1985. It went on to win the 1986 Sony award for "the most creative use of Radio".

Peace On Earth is an astonishing piece of work, running for 30 minutes. Upon an underlying bed of an original, contemporary arrangement of a familiar Christmas Carol, Attree builds multiple layers of actuality, employing sampling and other contemporary music editing techniques to describe man's inhumanity to man and our response to it, ranging from the concentration camps of WWII to Ethiopian famine, action against striking miners, and The Troubles in Northern Ireland - ending on a positive note. While very much a work of its time, it is still an immensely powerful, moving and creative piece of radio.

We do not feel that this item is appropriate for our main stream, and as a result it will be broadcast on our secondary Brideswell Stream, http://music2.radioriel.org. In addition, please note that the programme includes content of a harrowing nature that may not be appropriate for some listeners. The programme will be broadcast at least twice.