Martin Handley presents great pieces, great performances and a few surprises.
Suzy Klein celebrates the role that great teachers and mentors play, as musical knowledge and tradition is passed down through generations. With music by Liszt, Bach and Salieri. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is French actress and former dancer Leslie Caron. Her choices include music from her early dancing years and favourite songs, as well as a Bach cello suite. Show more
Lucie Skeaping profiles prize-winning group Le Jardin Secret, and meets soprano Elizabeth Dobbin and harpsichordist David Blunden. Music includes works by Rossi, Campra and Fux. Show more
Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including Orff's fairy-tale opera Die Kluge. Plus music by Chabrier, a tour of the Americas for spoken choir and Goldie on Gorecki. Show more
From the Chapel of King's College, London. Show more
Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore how the foxtrot of the 1920s and 40s dance halls had a creative impact on the imagination of 20th-century composers. Show more
Aled Jones is joined by choral conductor David Trendell to discuss singing Russian repertoire. Plus news of an a cappella festival and a performance of Rachmaninov's The Bells. Show more
August Wilson's award-winning play about race relations in America in the 1950s. The civil rights movement is kicking in, but once-famous baseball player Troy Maxson can't see it. Show more
Poet Gwyneth Lewis explores the story behind the Gododdin, a sixth-century Welsh poem elegising the slain British warriors who fought the Saxons in the Battle of Catterick. Show more
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of atonement, with readings by Simon Russell Beale and Adjoa Andoh. Featuring Milton, Dickinson and Chekhov, as well as Barber and Bruch. Show more
Kevin LeGendre talks to New York pianist Vijay Iyer, who has staked a claim as one of the city's key new voices, working with his quartet, his trio and in a duet with Mike Ladd. Show more
John Shea presents music by Grieg, Sibelius, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Rimsky Korsakov, Geminiani, Glick, Marton, Glanville-Hicks, JE Bach, Berlioz, Chopin, Debussy, Kodaly and Dvorak. Show more
