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Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack to start your weekend!

Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero is known for her sensitive playing, incredible improvisations and increasingly her larger scale compositions. But she's also an advocate for using music for cultural and political change. She talks to Tom about how all this affects her creative life today

And we launch the latest piece for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. This week, Arowah remembers the year 2003 and the Peace Rally against the Iraq war, where an estimated 1.5 million people gathered in London alone