Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Widor, Borodin, Bach and Bernstein. Please listen carefully when interacting as our text lines may have closed and you may still be charged. Show more
Suzy Klein explores music connected with places along the route of the Orient Express and chooses upcoming UK concerts. Plus Mark Swartzentruber's choice of music from the archives. Show more
Michael Berkeley introduces a selection of former guests discussing their love of opera, including Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Miller, Anthony Minghella and Stephen Fry. Show more
As part of a celebration of baroque opera, Catherine Bott explores Francesco Cavalli's Giasone, a work which became the most frequently performed opera of the 17th century. Show more
Fiona Talkington introduces listeners' requests, including chamber music from Mahler, choral music from John Rutter and a tribute to two vintage singers. Show more
From the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford. Show more
Stephen Johnson is joined at Manchester Grammar School by Swedish baritone Hakan Vramsmo and pianist David Quigley for an exploration of Schumann's Romantic song cycle Dichterliebe. Show more
Aled Jones focuses on the choral works of Robert Schumann and talks to two admirers of his music - conductor Simon Halsey, and singer and song specialist Norbert Meyn. Show more
Celebrated writer Tom Holland's new adaptation of his own translation of Herodotus' Histories - considered one of the most important books in history writing. Show more
Claire van Kampen explores the extraordinary genesis of the forgotten operatic masterpiece The Siege of Rhodes, the first opera in English to be performed publicly. Show more
Texts and music on the relationship between man, nature and machines, with readings by Caroline Catz and Anthony Flanagan. Works from Dickens and Larkin, plus Bach and Offenbach. Show more
Julian Joseph presents a gig recorded at Pizza Express in Soho in London, featuring pianists Kate Williams and Robin Aspland in a rare duet together. Show more
Susan Sharpe with music by Ivancic, Cimador, Sibelius, Dittersdorf, Haydn, Elgar, JCF Bach, Faure, Wagner, Brahms, Glanville Hicks, Abel, Durante, Alfven, Grieg, Mozart, Gombert. Show more
