Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with the daily J S Bach Prelude and fugue from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Klavier, plus listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Brian Blessed, Albinoni Adagio, The Christmas of 1817
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein presents potential companion pieces for a popular piece of music, and Brian Blessed lists his cultural inspirations and influences. Show more
Donald Macleod explores J S Bach's time in Weimar where he writes music for the court chapel: the Himmelsburg or Castle of Heaven. Show more
Recital given at LSO St Luke's in London by Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Bach: Sonata in D minor, BWV964; Preludes and Fugue (The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 1); Partita No 5. Show more
Penny Gore presents three cantatas by J.S. Bach performed by the Netherlands Bach Ensemble directed by Peter Dijkstra, recorded in 2017 in Utrecht. Show more
A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of snakes - real, mythological and metaphorical. With readings from Tracy-Ann Oberman and Ewan Bailey. Show more
Clemency Burton-Hill introduces recent recordings from the current members of the New Generation Artists Scheme. Kathryn Rudge sings Finzi and the Van Kuijk Quartet play Beethoven. Show more
In the first of five 'slow-radio' walks in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to meet Buxtehude in Lubeck, writer Horatio Clare sets out from Arnstadt in the direction of Erfurt. Show more
From Wigmore Hall in London, pianist and Radio 3 New Generation Artist Beatrice Rana plays Bach's celebrated Goldberg Variations. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Show more
Free Thinking
Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Peter Stanford, Ulinka Rublack and Diarmaid MacCulloch join Anne McElvoy to discuss Martin Luther: fundamentalist, reactionary or the enlightened creator of the modern world? Show more
Edinburgh writer Andy Drummond profiles Thomas Muntzer, a preacher and reformer who was a popular but failed revolutionary of the Reformation. Show more
A reflection on the Radio 4 three-part documentary 'Black Music In Europe', which challenges the notion that black popular music arrived in Europe with the Empire Windrush in 1948. Show more
Through the Night
John Shea with concert music and opera, recorded from locations throughout Europe
6 hours on BBC Radio 3
John Shea presents a concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster including Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto with soloist Elena Bashkirova. Show more