Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players; architect Ptolemy Dean; Sarah's Essential Choice: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Show more

Donald Macleod explores Irving Berlin's activities during the First World War, his marriage to Ellin Mackay, and his experience of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Show more

Katie Derham with music from 2011's Hay Festival. Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano). Beethoven: Sonata, Op 102 No 1. Debussy: Sonata. Beethoven: Sonata, Op 102. Show more

Louise Fryer presents music from the BBC SSO. Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 4 and 5; The Lark Ascending; Butterworth: Two English Idylls. Detlev Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie. Show more

Sean Rafferty presents, with guests from the music world including Gil Shaham, David Fray, and conductor David Parry Garsington Opera's production of Offenbach's La Perichole. Show more

Donald Macleod explores Irving Berlin's activities during the First World War, his marriage to Ellin Mackay, and his experience of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Show more

The English Concert under Harry Bicket and mezzo Alice Coote. Purcell: Suite (Dioclesian). Handel: Hercules (excpts). Purcell: Suite (The Fairy Queen). Handel: Ariodante (excpts). Show more

Rana Mitter meets John Irving, whose new novel In One Person, his most political novel since The Cider House Rules, examines loss of innocence, loss of sexual identity and trust. Show more

Critic James Wood explores how thought has been represented on the printed page over the years. Show more

Verity Sharp presents music from the Mountain Music Project, Amon Tobin and viola player Garth Knox. Plus Jim Moray's version of the ballad the Eighteenth of June, and Julia Wolfe. Show more

Susan Sharpe presents the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert given in Katowice, featuring works by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Show more