Martin Handley presents Radio 3's breakfast show, with festive music and surprises. Including the BBC Singers with specially recorded carols and the Breakfast Advent Calendar. Show more
Rob Cowan with instrumental music inspired by or drawn from opera, by Wagner, Verdi, Mozart and Johann Strauss. Plus a Bach cantata: Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn!, BWV132. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is actress Dame Diana Rigg. Her musical selections include Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Satie and Eva Cassidy. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert given at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester by the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments. Show more
From Barbican in London, Grieg's complete incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, with a cast of actors and singers, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Marc Minkowski. Show more
From Lichfield Cathedral. Show more
Aled Jones introduces a selection of seasonal choral music plus some contemporary sounds from innovative ensemble Arctic Light, reflecting the culture of the far north of Sweden. Show more
Music and poetry on the theme of plenty. Hayley Carmichael and Nicholas Farrell read poems by Hughes, MacNeice and Campion, plus music by Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Tallis. Show more
Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby explores the unexpected literary influences on Byron, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf: their fan mail. Show more
By Dawn King, Katie Hims, Frazer Flintham, Winsome Pinnock and Tom Wells. Five New Testament stories set in present-day pre-Christmas London. Show more
Moshe Morad presents a programme celebrating the Athens urban music scene. Including accordionist Lazarus Koulaxizis and veteran star of Rembetiko, Mario. Show more
Claire Martin presents the annual Christmas round table programme, with Bobby Wellins, Mark Armstrong and Trish Clowes. With live music from Euan Stevenson with his trio. Show more
Presented by Jonathan Swain. Including a rare change to hear Tchaikovsky's only comic opera The Tsarina's slippers, in a performance given at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Show more
