Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, celebrating the Baroque Spring season with the Breakfast Forty-Eight and the Musical Map of Britain. Show more
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Constantin Silvestri - Complete EMI Recordings; Artist of the Week; Essential Choice: Telemann: Overture in B flat, TWV 55 B1. Show more
Donald Macleod examines Purcell's revolutionary first opera Dido and Aeneas, and the influence and power it still holds over us. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents music from Belfast music festivals. Grieg: Solveig's sang; En drom. Tchaikovsky: Trio in A minor for piano and strings, Op 50. Show more
For Baroque Spring, BBC Singers perform Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and James MacMillan's Tenebrae Responsories live from St Paul's Knightsbridge. Plus Baroque-inspired Tippett. Show more
From Chichester Cathedral as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season. Show more
With Sean Rafferty. Including, as part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring season and build-up to Comic Relief Red Nose Day, the third in the Beastly Baroque series: The Full Monteverdi. Show more
Donald Macleod examines Purcell's revolutionary first opera Dido and Aeneas, and the influence and power it still holds over us. Show more
Concert in which HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic. MacMillan: Three Interludes (The Sacrifice). Britten: Serenade (with Richard Watkins: horn and Timothy Robinson: tenor). Show more
Paul Allen discusses Sophocles's version of the legend of Oedipus, arguing that the blame for the tragedy lies not with Oedipus, but with his father, Laius. Show more
Live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Martin Handley presents the BBC Philharmonic under HK Gruber in a performance of Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex. Show more
Night Waves
George Bellows, Geoff Mulgan, Psychology As Science, Ken Loach
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
With Philip Dodd. Including a retrospective of American realist painter George Bellows, Geoff Mulgan on the new capitalism, Ken Loach on Spirit of '45, and psychology as a science. Show more
Writer and Professor of American Literature at UEA Sarah Churchwell examines the tradition of depicting sex in popular fiction. Show more
Verity Sharp with piano music from Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas, a motet by Schutz and a work created by Clark Coolidge in 1968. Plus tarantellas from southern Italy. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents the Philharmonia Orchestra performing Prokofiev, Bartok and Neuwirth at the 2012 Proms. Show more
