Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Roxanna Panufnik
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Ian Skelly's guest is composer Roxanna Panufnik. Show more
Donald Macleod looks into American jazz musician Billy Strayhorn's deep connection with Paris, the city where he found the night life and the artistic independence he craved. Show more
Nicola Heywood Thomas presents music from the Dartington Festival including Thomas Gould with a work by Silvestrov and music by Britten performed by the Heath Quartet. Show more
Opera matinee: Luigi Rossi's L'Orfeo with the Pygmalion Ensemble under Raphael Pichon, taken from the National Opera Bordeaux, with Judith van Waroij in the title role. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from Sir Willard White and the Brodsky Quartet. We hear from Omar Sosa plus Jessica Walker talks about her new commission. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Ryan Bancroft, performs in Beethoven's Symphony Nos 1 and 5 . Robert Plane is the soloist in Weber's Clarinet Concerto No 1. Show more
Free Thinking
Leadership: lessons from US presidents and campaigners
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on what makes a good president. Plus novelist Georgina Harding on 'the greatest British battle' of World War II. Anne McElvoy presents. Show more
Justine Picardie, editor of Harper's Bazaar, celebrates a whole wardrobe of clothes that shimmers in F Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night. Show more
Cellist, improviser and composer Okkyung Lee has thirty minutes to select the music that has been most meaningful in her life, including John Zorn, Jimmy Giuffre and Rick Astley. Show more
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes joins the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko for a concert of music by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. Catriona Young presents. Show more