Presented by Martin Handley. Show more
Suzy Klein presents great music, listeners' emails, her gig of the week and a new CD. Mark Swartzentruber brings in a vintage gem. Show more
Michael Berkeley is joined by film, TV and stage actor Olivia Williams, whose musical choices include Handel, Mendelssohn, Bach, Vivaldi, Ortiz, Part, Brahms and Mahler. Show more
Catherine Bott presents Musica Fiata and La Capella Ducale at the 2010 York Early Music Festival in a programme of German wedding music from the time of the Thirty Years War. Show more
Chi-chi Nwanoku introduces listeners' requests, including Sibelius's King Christian II suite, Chopin on his own piano, and vocal performances from Christa Ludwig and Bryn Terfel. Show more
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Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Philharmonic, violinist Alina Ibragimova and conductor Leo Hussain to explore music by Szymanowski and Lutoslawski. Show more
Aled Jones finds out what life is like for the singers and congregation of St Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue in New York. Show more
By Annie Caulfield. Lenny Henry stars as singer and political activist Paul Robeson in a play about the mysterious events surrounding Robeson's suicide bid in Moscow in 1961. Show more
What did Britain do in the American Civil War? Louise Welsh investigates blockade running, blackface minstrelsy, spy-wars and abolitionists, with the Clyde shipyards as her focus. Show more
Texts and music relating to self-improvement, with readings by Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Macfadyen. Writing by Confucius, Kant, Tennyson, plus music by Elgar and Clementi. Show more
Julian Joseph introduces a set from Birmingham's Symphony Hall featuring Percy Pursglove on trumpet. Plus an interview with pianist Tim Richards. Show more
John Shea introduces a concert from the 2010 BBC Proms, with Deutsche Kammarphilharmonie Bremen and violinist Hilary Hahn in an all-Beethoven programme. Show more
