Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
With Sarah Walker. Musical challenge; Music on Location: Ligeti: San Francisco Polyphony; Artist of the Week: Jorge Bolet, featured in Debussy's Preludes - Books 1, 2 (selection). Show more
Donald Macleod explores Rebecca Clarke's experiences during the Second World War when she was unable to return to the UK. Including The Aspidistra, Rhapsody, Ave Maria. Show more
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces a concert given by the Amatis Trio at the 2017 Hay Festival. Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat, K502. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a rare performance of Michelangelo Falvetti's oratorio Nabucco given in Brussels. Plus Dvorak from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Show more
Sean Rafferty goes to the home of Dame Beryl Grey, the prima ballerina. Now in her 90s, she tells Sean about her new autobiography and talks about working with Frederic Ashton. Show more
Donald Macleod explores Rebecca Clarke's experiences during the Second World War when she was unable to return to the UK. Including The Aspidistra, Rhapsody, Ave Maria. Show more
From the Royal Festival Hall in London, the first broadcast of Ravi Shankar's only opera, Sukanya, based on a story from the ancient Sanskrit texts of the Mahabharata. Show more
Free Thinking
Hay Festival 2017: Writing history with Sebastian Barry, Jake Arnott, Madeleine Thien
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Sarah Dillon chairs a discussion from 2017's Hay Festival in which three authors of historical novels explore the way research and family history have informed their fiction. Show more
In front of an audience at 2017's Hay Festival, Martin Johnes discusses making statistics and figures worth reading as well as the rights and wrongs of historical perspective. Show more
Max Reinhardt previews the inaugural Oram Awards. Plus new music from Eliza Carthy, epic Korean poetry with an orchestral backing and a Sierra Leonean roots-trance collision. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents Martinu's Viola Concerto and Mozart's Symphony No 38 performed by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Show more
