Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Marin Alsop, Ave Maria, The Huma Bird
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's ill health was becoming extremely serious, but one admirer managed to coax him on a tour of the UK. It would be his last voyage. Show more
Sarah Walker presents chamber music by Martinu and Tchaikovsky performed by Ensemble 360 at the Sheffield Crucible studio as part of the recent Russia in the Round season. Show more
Opera Matinee: Gounod's Le Tribut de Zamora: Jonathan Swain celebrates the 200th anniversary of Gounod's birth on 17 June with a broadcast of his final opera, Le Tribut de Zamora. Show more
In Tune
Anna Bonitatibus, Christopher Ainslie, Jurgita Dronina, Martin James Bartlett
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Katie Derham with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Katie's guests include Anna Bonitatibus, Christopher Ainslie, Jurgita Dronina and Martin James Bartlett. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring music from featuring music from Steve Reich, Ned Rorem and a Rachmaninov scherzo. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Stephen Hough play Holst, Vaughan Williams and Beethoven
2 hours, 30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Andrew Manze conducts three majestic works: Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia Antartica, Holst's Ode to Death and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with celebrated pianist Stephen Hough. Show more
Free Thinking
The man who convinced Jimmy Carter to run for president
45 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Arts and cultural debate. Matthew Sweet talks to physician, anthropologist, author and international civil servant, Peter Bourne. 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
Max Reinhardt walks a tightrope across the fringes of adventurous music with the sounds of ceremonial flute music from Papua New Guinea and Jacobean consort music for company. Show more
From Bratislava, a concert of contemporary music with pianist Ivan Siller and violinist Milan Pal'a including Charles Ives's Three Quarter-Tone Pieces. John Shea presents. Show more