Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Suzy Klein - The Artificial Intelligence of Ada Lovelace, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Kwame Kwei-Armah
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for Milhaud's ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit. Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him. Show more
Donald Macleod, in conversation with Sir Antonio Pappano, traces the developmental line of Puccini's meticulously crafted dramatic heroines in La Boheme, Mimi and Musetta. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Chopin and his Europe 2017
Episode 1: Chopin and his Europe - Bach, Chopin and Mozart
58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Andreas Staier plays Chopin, Bach and Schubert at Warsaw's Chopin and His Europe Festival on a piano of Chopin's own time. Presented by Sarah Walker. Show more
Penny Gore continues the series of performances and recordings by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Including a 2017 concert at the University of Worcester Arena. Show more
In Tune
Angela Hewitt, Primrose Piano Quartet, Lady Deborah MacMillan
1 hour, 58 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music, chat and arts news. His guests include pianist Angela Hewitt, who performs live in the studio, as do the Primrose Piano Quartet. Show more
A specially curated mixtape including music Shostakovich, Gounod and Nigel Hess, as well as some folk music from the Danish Quartet, and music from Kiss Me Kate.
Stuart Flinders presents a concert given by the Halle, clarinettist Sergio Castello Lopez and conductor Sir Mark Elder, live from the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Show more
Free Thinking
The Man Booker Prize. Mike Bartlett. Is Small Beautiful?
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Alex Clark talks to Philip Dodd from the Man Booker Prize ceremony at London's Guildhall. Plus Mike Bartlett on moving from TV's Dr Foster to a play depicting a future UK. Show more
Academic and novelist Patricia Duncker on the dangerous and seductive ways in which opera can overwhelm the senses. In particular she discusses the power of Death in Venice. Show more
Verity Sharp heads to the edgelands of Lincolnshire for a special programme recorded at home with one of the most distinctive voices in British songwriting, Robert Wyatt. Show more
Catriona Young presents a concert of Ginastera, Lalo and Tchaikovsky from the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Show more
