Elizabeth Alker presents the Breakfast programme, live from London's Wellcome Collection as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Live from Wellcome Collection, Sarah Walker presents a selection of music linked to ritual and memorial. Show more
Radio 3's Tom Service and 6 Music's Cerys Matthews join forces for a special simulcast. They are joined by singer and composer Hannah Peel who performs live. Show more
As part of Radio 3's Why Music? The Key to Memory weekend, Michael Berkeley talks to psychiatrist Sir Simon Wessely about violin music, opera and musical theatre. Show more
Sarah Walker presents soloists from Aurora Orchestra playing Schubert's String Quintet in C and a world premiere by Martin Suckling, with poetry by Frances Leviston. Show more
Sound recordist Chris Watson takes a walk along his beloved Northumbrian coast, musing on themes of memory from the natural world and sounds from his extraordinary archive. Show more
Live from Wellcome Collection, Mahan Esfahani explores the role of shared memory in early music. With music from Mahan himself, cornettist Helen Roberts and Downside Abbey monks. Show more
The Fellowship Octet perform four world premieres of choral works inspired by research into people living with dementias. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more
Why do certain songs lodge themselves in our brain and refuse to budge? Tom Service unearths the musical secrets behind earworms with guest Jarvis Cocker. Show more
Actors Claire Benedict and David Neilson read literary musings on forgetting and forgetfulness. With prose and poetry from Ogden Nash, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Philip K Dick. Show more
Tom Service and Sarah Walker discuss their personal 'Why Music?' highlights and discoveries, with the help of resident experts Catherine Loveday and Philip Ball. Show more
Ian Skelly presents highlights from the Radio France and Montpellier Festival from July 2017, including Devienne's Symphonie Concertante and Gliere's Coloratura Concerto. Show more
A new reading of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, with excerpts from Orson Welles's 1953 version alongside the voices of actors Michael Sheen, Clarke Peters and Eleanor Bron. Show more
Cantus Colln performs a programme of music by Schutz, Schein and Albert, three composers who lived and wrote through the Thirty Years' War. Introduced by Elin Manahan Thomas. Show more
Arnold Bax's Symphony No 5, played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones. Show more
Catriona Young presents a recital from the 2017 International Chopin Piano Festival in Poland, by pianist Vadym Kholodenko. Show more
