Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.

With Sarah Walker, and in the week the Olympic games begin, her guest the sportsman and writer Ed Smith. Show more

Donald Macleod explores the period 1820-2, when Beethoven composes his final piano sonatas. Show more

Radio 3 New Generation Artist and mezzo Jennifer Johnston sings music by Vaughan Williams, Warlock and Cheryl Frances-Hoad at the 2012 City of London Festival. Show more

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, peform Beethoven's Symphonies No.5 and 6, 'Pastoral' and Pierre Boulez's haunting Memoriale and Messagesquisse. Show more

Sean Rafferty presents an Olympics feast, with Harry the Piano improvising on a sports theme in the studio and conductor Robert Hollingworth reporting from the Olympic sailing. Show more

Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and National Youth Choir of Great Britain in the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Show more

Donald Macleod explores the period 1820-2, when Beethoven composes his final piano sonatas. Show more

Pianist Christian Ihle Hadland performs Chopin, Haydn, Schumann a piece by a fellow Norwegian David Monrad Johansen in this New Generation Artists showcase. 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

Author Abdulrazak Gurnah makes contact with his father after a long period of absence. He focused on his memories and his father's stories, which were used in his book Paradise. Show more

Mary Ann Kennedy and Lopa Kothari with the first of a weekend of broadcasts from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Show more

Susan Sharpe presents a bill including Faure, Nielsen, Stravinsky, Debussy and Schumann. Show more