Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Suzy Klein - Lenny Henry, Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein with guest Lenny Henry. Show more
Donald Macleod presents five takes on the life and music of Gioachino Rossini. Today, the music that Rossini didn’t have to write. Show more
The Nash Ensemble and pianist Ashley Wass mark 100 years since the Armistice in the War's Embers series at LSO St Luke's. Today, Ashley Wass plays music by Bridge, Bax and Elgar. Show more
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon conducts Monteverdi's seminal drama of love and death, L'Orfeo, recognised as the first great opera, in a recorded performance from the Ambronay Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from the Punch Brothers, and mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton. Plus conductor and composer Eímear Noone. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music by Gabrieli, Haydn, Clara Schumann and John Williams, as well as Puccini's Tosca and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, Ethel Smyth's Mass
2 hours, 28 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live at the Barbican, Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D. Pavel Koleshnikov joins them for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Show more
Free Thinking
Buses, beer and VR - a taste of university research
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
A 3,000-year-old Iranian ritual, archaeology on a council estate and London's Greek Cypriot community. Matthew Sweet hops on the 29 bus route and puts on some VR glasses. Show more
Ian Sansom continues his series of imaginary correspondences with some of history's most celebrated artists by asking Frida Kahlo if she is a sellout? Show more
An exclusive recording marking the 70th anniversary of Windrush, featuring Anthony Joseph, Jason Yarde, Hannah Catherine Jones and Dennis Bovell. Show more
Early music from Poland, performed by Paolo Pandolfo, Thomas Boysen and Alvaro Garrido. Catriona Young presents. Show more