Category: Factual
& Arts TV; Radio
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Date: 18.09.2004
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The BBC has
won four awards at Prix Italia, held in Catania, Sicily.
The Corporation was awarded two out of three awards
in both the Television and Radio categories.
BBC 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.
BBC FOUR scooped Best Cultural and General Interest
Documentary prize for Arena: The Life and Times of Count Luchino
Visconti.
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.
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.
Originally a radio festival, the Prix Italia awards
prizes for the best drama, documentary and music & arts across radio,
television and the web.
