Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Dancing Queen, Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, Jackie Kay
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus the poet and novelist Jackie Kay on the things that inspire her. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at the influence of Gabrieli's numerous patrons and wealthy friends on his music. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
2018 Hay Festival - Mendelssohn Plus performed by the Albion Quartet
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Sarah Walker presents Mendelssohn Plus performed by the Albion Quartet at the 2018 Hay Festival. Includes works by Maconchy and Dvorak. Show more
Penny Gore presents a production of Puccini's Il trittico from the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Kirill Petrenko. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with guests including violinist Hyeyoon Park and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who perform live, and mezzo Katarina Karneus, who joins us live from Belfast. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: a fairy-tale Empress of the Pagodas, stories of hapless dogs, and performances by Emma Kirkby, Miles Davis and the King's Singers. Show more
Acclaimed Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis perform masterpieces of English polyphony, including music by Thomas Tallis, John Sheppard, Robert White and Thomas Tomkins. Show more
Free Thinking
American slavery, the occult and modern politics, jobs for psychopaths
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Iraq veteran and novelist Kevin Powers, American writer Gary Lachman, plus the careers picked by psychopaths. Presented by Matthew Sweet. Show more
Francesca Rhydderch chooses a favourite, female fictional character - Virginia Woolf's Orlando - and ponders the lessons we could all learn from her. Recorded at the Hay Festival. Show more
Verity Sharp hosts a concert from Sheffield showcasing local artists, including folk guitarist Jim Ghedi, live-coded electronic music from Lucy Cheesman and composer Stephen Chase. Show more
Ambient and minimalist musician Lucrecia Dalt compiles an amazing, mercurial thirty-minute mix. Get set for surrealism, science, and sound art. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a BBC Prom from 2017 with Semyon Bychkov conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Show more