Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
Rob Cowan focuses on composers who reveal their innermost thoughts and meditations: Bernstein, Janacek, Dvorak, Fibich. Plus Bach's Coffee Cantata and Shostakovich's Symphony No 2. Show more
Michael Berkeley's guest is poet Fiona Sampson. Her musical choices include works by Mendelssohn, Bach, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams and Bartok. Show more
Catherine Bott and harpsichordist Fabio Bonizzoni probe the Toccatas and Partitas for keyboard by the highly influential late renaissance composer, Girolamo Frescobaldi. Show more
Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts the BBC Philharmonic at Leeds Town Hall. Beethoven: Violin Concerto (soloist: Augustin Hadelich). Webern: Passacaglia. Brahms: Symphony No 4. Show more
From the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge on Ash Wednesday. Show more
Choral conductor Ken Burton explores the world of gospel music, introducing performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Tippett's A Child of Our Time. Show more
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of that object of commerce and symbol of virility - hair. Show more
In a series exploring notions of sin and atonement, the Rev Richard Coles discusses temptation and the practical challenges of sin in the contemporary world. Show more
Dramatist Dominic Power and novelist Sarah Hall's tense supernatural thriller set against the stark backdrop of the Cumbrian landscape. Show more
Simon Broughton focuses on Nubian culture, still present in the Aswan basin, but which suffered considerably with the creation of the High Dam and the Nasser lake in the late 1960s. Show more
Claire Martin pays tribute to friend and performance colleague Richard Rodney Bennett. With a session the two performed in 2000, as well as Bennett's work Jazz Calendar Suite. Show more
Nicola Christie's selection includes Gounod's opera Mors et Vita in a performance given in Eberbach Monastery in Germany. Show more
