Presented by Martin Handley, who shares his personal choice of music. Show more
Iain Burnside explores the rich and diverse musical life of Australia and the contributions of its performers and composers, including Grainger, Mackerras and others. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is choirmaster Gareth Malone, whose choices include Vaughan Williams, Bernstein, Byrd and Stravinsky as well as songs by Schumann and Finzi. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the London Handel Festival and talks to several of the 2010 festival's key protagonists, including musical director Laurence Cummings. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents listeners' requests, including Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata, Part's De Profundis, Mozart's Double Piano Concerto in E flat. Plus a request from Pat Metheny. Show more
From Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Show more
Stephen Johnson is joined by pianists Llyr Williams and Benjamin Frith to examine the history and musical ideas behind Chopin's cycle of Preludes. Show more
Naturalist and broadcaster Miranda Krestovnikoff joins Aled Jones to explore choral music inspired by the natural world. With Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Sviridov, Delius, Brumel. Show more
By George Bernard Shaw. Romantic comedy exploring the ideals and realities of war, hypocrisy and nationalism. With Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard and Tom Mison. Show more
Louise Doughty explores the growth of the young adult fiction market, which made over 50 million pounds in the UK in 2009, and asks is it at last coming of age. Show more
Christopher Eccleston and Olivia Hallinan read from a selection of real and fictional love letters by Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde. Music by Couperin, Wagner, Mozart. Show more
As a tribute to the late John Dankworth, Julian Joseph presents part of a live broadcast from 2005 from one of the saxophonist's annual garden parties at his home in Wavendon. Show more
John Shea presents music by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Bach, Jenner, Vaughan Williams, Tallis, Chopin, Bodinus, Rachmaninov, Daniel-Lesur, Telemann, Britten and Bruch. Show more
