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: Who/What/Where Am I?; Music and literature scholar Kate Kennedy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bridge: A Prayer. Show more
Donald Macleed explores Elgar's song cycle The Fringes of the Fleet, which used words written by Rudyard Kipling. Show more
Michael Collins (clarinet) and Michael McHale (piano) in Debussy: Premiere Rhapsodie. Plus Stravinsky: Suite (A Soldier's Tale) and Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 90. Show more
Penny Gore introduces Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera The Silver Tassie, based on Sean O'Casey's play about World War I. Plus Stanford: Verdun: Solemn March and Heroic Epilogue. Show more
As part of the Radio 3's Music in the Great War season, Sean Rafferty presents a live programme from Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Show more
Donald Macleed explores Elgar's song cycle The Fringes of the Fleet, which used words written by Rudyard Kipling. Show more
Radio 3 Live in Concert
BBC Concert Orchestra - A Captive Audience
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert featuring words and music from two World War I internment camps: in London at Alexandra Palace and at Ruhleben racecourse near Berlin. Show more
Free Thinking
Balancing Power in World War I and Now
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy is joined by Margaret MacMillan and Jonathan Powell to discuss the Great Powers in World War I and now, considering how their roles have changed. Show more
Professor David Edgerton of King's College London reflects on the Memorandum on the Neglect of Science, a 1916 clarion call from the British scientific establishment. Show more
Max Reinhardt introduces a studio session featuring qanun player Maya Youssef, cellist Laura Moody and singer Ana Silvera. Plus west African saxophone and Congolese likembe music. Show more
John Shea's selection includes Arvo Part's Lamentate for piano and orchestra and Shostakovich's Symphony No 11. Show more