Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's breakfast show. For Radio 3's Music on the Brink Season, BBC foreign correspondents talk to Petroc about cultural life in Europe in early 1914. Show more

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: English Fantasia; Music and culture of St Petersburg on the eve of World War One; Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: The Bells. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on the impact of Mahler's death in 1911 on the younger generation of composers. Show more

Performance given by Cedric Tiberghien (piano). Szymanowski: Sheherazade (Masques). Liszt: Au Lac de Wallenstadt; Au Bord d'une Source. Debussy: 2 Arabesques. Ravel: Miroirs. Show more

Katie Derham presents music from Spain, by Salazar and Nebra. Plus works by Prokofiev and Glazunov. Show more

Suzy Klein with live music from violinist Philippe Quint, and special visits from Maxim Vengerov and Jessye Norman. Plus Jonathan Pryce with a Postcard from St Petersburg in 1914. Show more

Donald Macleod focuses on the impact of Mahler's death in 1911 on the younger generation of composers. Show more

Nikolaj Znaider leads the Halle. Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (excerpts). Strauss: Orchestral Songs: Das Thal; Der Einsame. Wagner: Overture (Tannhauser). Sibelius: Symphony No 1. Show more

Baroness Shirley Williams, Professor Roy Foster, Nick Cohen, Duncan Brack, Bea Campbell and Philip Dodd discuss George Dangerfield's book The Strange Death of Liberal England. Show more

BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg tells the story of the chess tournament that defined the St Petersburg of 1914, as well as modern-day Russia. Show more

Nick Luscombe with an unpredictable playlist of subversive songs and mischievous music including tunes by Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd and John Cooper Clarke. Show more

John Shea presents Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with pianist Fazil Say and music by Klami and Grieg. Show more