Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - The paintings of Peter Lely, Marin Alsop, Tchaikovsky's The Seasons
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music. Plus conductor Marin Alsop on the people, places and ideas that inspire her. Show more
Chopin threw himself into Paris life when he moved there in 1831, where he was feted by the great and good, but he was pining for the daughter of a Polish count. Show more
Sarah Walker presents chamber music by Glinka, Saint-Saens and Prokofiev performed by Ensemble 360 at Sheffield's Crucible Studio as part of the Russia in the Round season. Show more
John Toal presents the Ulster Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky and Sibelius live at Ulster Hall, Belfast. Plus BBC Singers and Elgar's Second Symphony from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Show more
In Tune
Dex Lee and Katie Hall, Jörg Widmann, Alisdair Hogarth, Verity Wingate, Andrew Staples and Laura Mucha
2 hours
on BBC Radio 3
A lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Katie Derham's guests include Dex Lee and Katie Hall, Jorg Widmann plus members of the Prince Consort with poet Laura Mucha. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an imaginative, eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites together with lesser-known gems, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Paul Lewis, live in concert, plays Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms at the Royal Festival Hall
2 hours, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, pianist Paul Lewis plays music from the Classical period to the Romantic, with works by Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms. Mark Forrest presents. Show more
Free Thinking
The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning
45 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Arundhati Roy talks about literary translation, the subject of her WG Sebald lecture, with Preti Taneja, and Anne McElvoy investigates the UK's apparent language learning crisis. Show more
A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories. Dramatist Jeff Young considers the unusual array of muses that inform his and other writers' work. Show more
Broadcaster Zakia Sewell shares music from a recent trip to the Caribbean island of Carriacou where she explored the Big Drum tradition of her grandfather. Show more
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