For Radio 3's Music in the Great War season, Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show and introduces music from countries which were major participants in WWI. Show more
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elgar: Piano Music; Brainteaser: Critics' Corner; music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bliss: Piano Quartet. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the year 1915, when Elgar wrote music for The Starlight Express, a work that met a public need for escapism. Show more
Music from 2014's Great Music in Irish Houses Festival. Beethoven: Violin Sonata in D. Ferguson: 4 Short Pieces for clarinet. Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance). Show more
Penny Gore with music connected to World War I. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3. WD Browne: Two Dances. Moeran: Symphony in G minor. Sibelius: Finlandia. Schumann: Symphony No 1. Show more
In Tune
Nicola Benedetti, Albert Ball's Flying Aces, Joanna MacGregor, David Owen Norris WWI Stories
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents live music from violinist Nicola Benedetti and ragtime band Albert Ball's Flying Aces, plus David Owen Norris with another personal story in his WWI series. Show more
Donald Macleod focuses on the year 1915, when Elgar wrote music for The Starlight Express, a work that met a public need for escapism. Show more
WWI music and poetry from Rupert Brooke, William Denis Browne and FS Kelly. With James Gilchrist (tenor) and Iain Burnside (piano), plus reader Matthew Cammelle. Show more
Free Thinking
Landmark: The Thirty-Nine Steps and World War I
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet explores representations of World War I, empire and adventure in John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. Show more
Author and broadcaster Sara LeFanu reflects on Rose Macaulay's 1916 novel Non-Combatants and Others, considering how it sheds light on Macaulay's own changing attitude to the war. Show more
Presented by Max Reinhardt. Including sound artist, producer and singer Arto Lindsay playing in the studio and sharing his musical tastes, plus music from Martin and Eliza Carthy. Show more
John Shea presents music from Slovenia, to mark Slovenian National Day. Show more