With Martin Handley. Wake up to music, news and the occasional surprise.
Suzy Klein starts 2010 with a celebration of the delights of the table, with her guest, writer and cook Tamasin Day-Lewis. Including composers and performers who enjoyed their food. Show more
Michael Berkeley meets theatre director Katie Mitchell, whose musical choices include a Bach aria, string quartets by Beethoven and Janacek, and music by Nono and Schnittke. Show more
Lucie Skeaping considers the background to the Qurelle des Bouffons, a historically significant 'musical war' in the 1750s about the respective merits of Italian and French opera. Show more
Fiona Talkington with listeners' choices. There's an American thread with a suite by Ruth Crawford Seeger and an unusual history of aviation in Mark Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony. Show more
Live from Eton College Chapel, with the Rodolfus Choir. Show more
Charles Hazlewood joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to explore Kodaly's suite Hary Janos and, with Heather Corbett, profiles the cimbalom, Hungary's national instrument. Show more
Aled Jones is joined by members of the Swedish group Voces Nordicae. Plus a performance of Snofrid by one of Sweden's key musical figures, Wilhelm Stenhammar. Show more
Two productions by one of the giants of Irish theatre, JM Synge: the country farce The Tinker's Wedding and the great tragedy Riders to the Sea. Show more
Scottish poet and writer Kathleen Jamie joins a research expedition to the tiny uninhabited island of North Rona - 45 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean west of Cape Wrath. Show more
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of borders, with readings by Samuel West and Penelope Wilton. Works include Kafka, Marilynne Robinson, Chopin and Ligeti. Show more
Claire Martin presents the annual round- table event discussing all things jazz plus music from the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, directed by saxophonist Tommy Smith. Show more
John Shea presents music by Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Bruch, Strauss, Beethoven, Bach, Respighi, Saint Saens, Chopin, Tartini, Gombert, Zulaws,i, Beethoven, Spisak, Schumann. Show more
