Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: The Essential Classics Interview

Essential Classics

Music: Classical

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Monday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, The great film swindle of 1912, Elgar's Serenade for Strings

ian-skelly_0716_pres_tricia-yourkevich.jpg

04/06/2018

Monday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, The great film swindle of 1912, Elgar's Serenade for Strings

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, The great film swindle of 1912, Elgar's Serenade for Strings

Marin Alsop talks to Ian Skelly about the people, places, books and music that inspire her

Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus conductor Marin Alsop on the people, places and ideas that inspire her.

Ian Skelly with Essential Classics - the best in classical music, today including works by Schubert, Mozart and Britten

0930 
Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist. Elgar's compact, tuneful Serenade for Strings is one of his best-loved works. But with what would you follow it in the Playlist?

1010 
Time Traveller - A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 
Each day this week the trail-blazing internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop talks to Ian about the people, places and ideas that have inspired her throughout her life and career. Appropriately enough for someone who communicates partially with her hands, today she talks about Rodin's sculpture The Hand of God.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Essential Classics

Monday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, The great film swindle of 1912, Elgar's Serenade for Strings

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3