With Nisha Pillai.
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An all-Russian line-up, with excerpts from Tchaikovsky's The Snow Maiden, followed by Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 played by the 20-year-old Armenian virtuoso Sergey Khachatryan. The concert concludes with Prokofiev's wartime Symphony No 5, written in support of the greatness of the human spirit. The BBC Philharmonic is led by their Russian-born principal guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky. Hosted by Charles Hazlewood. Also broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30pm. INTERACTIVE: digital viewers can access music notes via the red button
Could gamma-ray bursts really be the dying gasps of exploding stars?
Writer-director Edgar Reitz talks about the challenges of making his portrait of Germany that charted life from 1919 to the millennium. Series two continues immediately.
2/13
Juan attempts to make some progress with his talents, while Hermann loses all of his worldly possessions to Mrs Moretti and becomes sick for the first time away from home. In German with English subtitles.
a profile of Britain's greatest cyclist asks how his desire for immortality cost the charismatic showman his life
10/10. Before regaling New York's
Lincoln Center with anecdotes of her pan-American trip, Miriam Margolyes visits the Shaker community of Mount Lebanon
