As part of the Radio 3 Why Music? weekend, Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show live from Wellcome Collection cafe, with a selection of spine-tingling music. Show more
Live from the Radio 3 pop-up studio at Wellcome Collection, Andrew McGregor is joined by musicians and experts to find out the benefits of listening to and performing music. Show more
Claudia Hammond finds out to what extent music can influence the brain from a neurological perspective and how our musical tastes, education and preferences influence our lives. Show more
Marcus du Sautoy and soloists from the Aurora Orchestra explore the way patterns and mathematics from nature are found in music from Bach and Mozart to Messiaen and Berg. Show more
Music Matters
Why Music? Live from Wellcome Collection
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service discovers how music is used to manipulate and control, from music as a tool to subdue or intimidate, to the subconscious role music plays in our daily lives.
Psychiatrist and concert pianist Dr Richard Kogan shows how some composers' mental illness influenced and shaped their music, with a special focus on Schumann and Rachmaninov. Show more
Texts and music on the theme of the power of music, with readers Tamsin Greig and Alex Jennings. Including Shakespeare and PG Wodehouse, plus Hildegard of Bingen and Beethoven. Show more
Tom Service and Why Music? resident experts Victoria Williamson and Philip Ball draw together some of the weekend's themes and answer questions from the audience and listeners. Show more
Jazz Line-Up
Why Music? - Live from the Street at the Wellcome Trust
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Julian Joseph presents a programme combining musicians' interaction with technology, including live performance from Finn Peters, Martin Speake, Matthew Yee-King and Neil Cowley. Show more
Claudia Hammond and guests discuss issues, recent discoveries and theories around music and physical and mental wellbeing, and the health problems encountered by musicians. Show more
Tom Service presents live performance of world premieres and recent music played by soloists from the Aurora Orchestra and experimental pianist Sarah Nicolls. Show more
An all-night performance of Max Richter's eight-hour epic, Sleep, his 'lullaby for a frenetic world’. Show more
