Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, featuring the Best of British music Playlist and listener requests. Plus requests for works by neglected composers. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet and Sarah's guest, the author Marina Lewycka. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the bitter final years of Hector Berlioz, when he was troubled by ill-health and a continued poor reception for his music in France. Show more
Chamber music by Kurtag, Debussy, Mahler and Schumann from New York's Frick Collection, featuring Anna Vinnitskaya, Faure Quartett, Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen. Show more
Penny Gore showcases the BBC Philharmonic. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op 80. Turina: Rapsodia Sinfonica, Op 66. Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D. Plus Britten and Holst. Show more
Presented by Sean Rafferty. With live music from soprano Joan Rodgers with James Cheung, conductor and pianist Andrew Litton and accordionist Paul Chamberlain. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the bitter final years of Hector Berlioz, when he was troubled by ill-health and a continued poor reception for his music in France. Show more
The Britten Sinfonia performs at the Barbican. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Flos Campi. Birtwistle: The Fields of Sorrow; Melencolia I. Plus Holst. Show more
From the Hay Festival, Ian McMillan is joined by Karl Ove Knausgaard, who has been called the Norwegian Proust, and Philip Ardagh, one of our most celebrated children's authors. Show more
Journalist and novelist Rachel Johnson asks if we are all too ready to leap to judgement when it comes to writing about sex. Show more
Lopa Kothari presents a session from Belgian cult band Jaune Toujours, Commonwealth Connections from New Zealand and a Heritage Track from Guyana. Show more
Catriona Young presents archive recordings from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Show more
