Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Sumsion's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G, Strauss's Annen-Polka, and Mascagni's Intermezzo. Show more
James Jolly plays a selection of great music, featuring the best recordings from the archive and the present day. Including works by CPE Bach, Grieg, Richard Strauss and Poulenc. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is former The Apprentice star Margaret Mountford, whose musical choices include Liszt, Schubert, Wagner, Chopin and Verdi. Show more
Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy and life of King Dinis I, who both patronised musicians and wrote music himself in 13th-century Portugal. Show more
Eva Johansson (soprano) and Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer in Wagner, including excerpts from Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Gotterdammerung. Show more
From Exeter Cathedral. Show more
Aled Jones talks to composer Rowland Lee about his Requiem and looks forward to the forthcoming international choral competition Let the Peoples Sing. Show more
From Mary to Maeve, Lydia to Laura, and from Oriana all the way to a boy named Sue, the weekly sequence of music and verse makes play with the words we use to name the female sex. Show more
Richard Coles examines the tensions inherent in the way gay and lesbian rights have become a Western yardstick for the measurement of global human rights. Show more
An adaptation of Shaw's play dramatising the life and trials of Joan of Arc, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Show more
Lucy Duran meets Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares, a choir of Bulgarian women who for the past three decades have brought traditional Bulgarian polyphonic singing to a world audience. Show more
Julian Joseph presents. Including an interview with American vibes legend Gary Burton, who talks about his recent CD Common Ground, which features the New Gary Burton Quartet. Show more
Susan Sharpe introduces a concert from the young oboist Ramon Ortega Quero, 2010 Borletti Buitoni prizewinner, including works by Vivaldi, Telemann and Bach. Show more