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Breakfast
With Suzy Klein. A varied Breakfast menu, including Andras Schiff playing Scarlatti, Karajan conducting Puccini and the last piece Bruckner wrote for the church. Show more
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With Suzy Klein. A varied Breakfast menu, including Andras Schiff playing Scarlatti, Karajan conducting Puccini and the last piece Bruckner wrote for the church. Show more
Iain considers great music written for christenings, weddings and funerals, including Wagner, Mahler, Rameau and Scarlatti. He is joined by the Rev Dr Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney. Show more
Andrew McGregor and Sarah Walker present a day of concerts to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth. Show more
A new adaptation of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play. It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband, an eminent judge, to be with an ex-RAF pilot. Show more
History professor Justin Champion considers new research about the trial of Charles I, which explains how his execution was not a foregone conclusion. Show more
Sian Thomas and Nicholas Farrell read poetry and prose from the 1930s by MacNeice, Steinbeck, Orwell, Dylan Thomas and Auden, with music by Britten, Barber, Robeson and Bartok. Show more
Julian Joseph introduces trumpeter Roy Hargrove in concert with his own rhythm section recorded at the 2008 London Jazz Festival. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents music, including Ferguson, Schubert, CPE Bach, Contant, Chopin, Mahler, Wert, Bjelinski, Mozart, Forster, Hofmann, Debussy, Beethoven, Telemann and Weber. Show more