Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Captain Cook's surfboard, Vivienne Westwood, Holst's Jupiter
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein brings the best in classical music and is joined by the week's guest, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Show more
Composing during a period of religious battles and upheaval, presenter Donald Macleod takes a look at the sacred music of Henry Purcell. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Machynlleth and Fishguard Festivals 2017
Episode 2: Fishguard and Machynlleth Festivals 2017: Rachel Podger, Anna Tsybuleva
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
From Welsh music festivals in Fishguard and Machynlleth, Rachel Podger and Marcin Swiatkiewicz perform music by Leonarda and pianist Anna Tsybuleva plays Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. Show more
Verity Sharp presents works by Rossini and Sandstrom, as well as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Show more
Choral Vespers for Ember Wednesday live from the Church of the London Oratory. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include violinist Esther Yoo and pianist Ivan Ilic, both of whom perform live in the studio. Show more
Composing during a period of religious battles and upheaval, presenter Donald Macleod takes a look at the sacred music of Henry Purcell. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Nash Ensemble at Wigmore Hall: 'Nash Inventions'
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The Nash Ensemble, live from Wigmore Hall in London, in music by Stravinsky, Maxwell Davies, Goehr, Birtwistle and Casken. With baritones Simon Wallfisch and Peter Tregear. Show more
Free Thinking
Royal Society Science Book Prize. Adrian Owen. Science in India.
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet explores science writing as the Royal Society Science Book Prize is awarded for the 30th year and explores Adrian Owen's major discovery in the field of neuroscience. Show more
Michael Goldfarb returns to his cab driving and acting days in 1970s New York to tell backstage Broadway stories, including an account of his, and Marlon Brando's, acting teacher. Show more
Ahead of a major UK exhibition of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Max Reinhardt explores his musical inspirations and collaborations. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents performances of Mozart's fifth, eleventh and eighteenth Piano Concertos from the Pavel Slobodkin Centre Chamber Orchestra in Moscow. Show more
