Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
Rob Cowan's selection of music includes guitarist Andras Segovia performing the Concerto del sur by Manuel Maria Ponce. Plus Martinu and Bartok, and Bach's Cantata, BWV129. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. She chooses Chopin, Mozart, Humperdinck, Bach and Schubert, plus Christy Moore singing a song with words by Yeats. Show more
Catherine Bott explores early music in Britain in the 1950s, focusing on the work of early music pioneers such as Thurston Dart, Robert Donington and Walter Bergmann. Show more
Pianist Stephen Hough plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Scriabin's Sonata No 5 and Liszt's Sonata in B minor, as well as a self-composed piece: Broken Branches. Show more
From New College, Oxford. Show more
Aled Jones explores all things choral. Aled learns how plainchant, an ancient form of singing, has inspired composers including Robert Whyte, Holst and Roxanna Panufnik. Show more
Poetry, prose and music on the theme of boats, with readings by Anne-Marie Duff and Jonathan Keeble. With music from Wagner, Vaughan Williams, Debussy and Nick Drake. Show more
Neuroscientist and writer David Eagleman explores the work of one of Italy's foremost writers, Italo Calvino. With readings by Simon Russell Beale and recordings of Calvino himself. Show more
David Pownall's play imagines stormy negotiations over a poem between two towering but very different geniuses of the Victorian era. With Richard Johnson and Toby Stephens. Show more
A concert given at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall by The Imagined Village, a group of musicians updating English traditions through arrangements of folk songs and new compositions. Show more
Claire Martin presents the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie, performing with saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock. Including arrangements of Ain't Misbehavin' and I Thought About You. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Debussy, Ravel and Falla at the 2011 Proms. Show more
