Sunday - Suzy Klein. Show more
Iain Burnside is joined by pianist and author Roy Howat to considers how composers such as Elgar, Debussy and Albeniz have depicted southern climes. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Penelope Wilton, whose musical interests range from Brahms and Dvorak to Debussy, Prokofiev and Weill. Show more
Kudsi Erguner - Islamic Mystics and Mevlevi Sufi: Catherine Bott talks to Kudsi Erguner, master of the Ney flute and traditional Mevlevi Sufi, about the music of the Sufi tradition. Show more
Chi-chi Nwanoku presents listeners' requests, including Prokofiev's version of Romeo and Juliet, Mozart sung by Lucia Popp and Ida Haendel in Elgar's Violin Concerto. Show more
Choral Evensong live from Durham Cathedral. Show more
Stephen Johnson joins conductor Nicholas Kraemer and the Manchester Camarata for a look at the musical background and workings of the first great English opera, Dido and Aeneas. Show more
Aled Jones presents choral music inspired by the idea of light and talks to composer James Whitbourn about Luminosity, his recent large-scale work for choir and dancers. Show more
Garry Lyons' portrait of author Arthur Ransome before he found fame, when he lived a double life as a journalist and agent for both the Bolsheviks and the Foreign Office. Show more
Dennis Marks investigates why some nations are resisting Turkey joining the EU. Is it because they are in denial about the past influence of the Ottoman Empire? Show more
Lorcan Cranitch and Orla Charlton with readings evoking the Irish landscape, from WB Yeats, Seamus Heaney and Paul Durcan, plus music from Liam O'Flynn, Arnold Bax and John Cage. Show more
Claire Martin presents an interview with guitar icon Pat Metheny, who discusses his new album, Orchestrion, featuring a large mechanical multi-instrument device. Show more
John Shea presents music by Mozart, Richter, Lustig, Dauvergne, Crusell, Schubert, Beethoven, Dussek, Ravel, Forster, Vivaldi, Prokofiev, Walters, Elgar, Lorenzetti and Buxtehude. Show more
