Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including her Sunday Escape. Show more
Tim Firth, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, and the creator of Calendar Girls, shares his passion for classical music with Michael Berkeley. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, London. The Juilliard String Quartet plays a new work by American composer Lembit Beecher and Dvorak's 'American' Quartet, Op. 96 Show more
William Hayes's oratorio, The Fall of Jericho, was all but forgotten until a recent new performing edition. Lucie Skeaping talks to Simon Heighes about the piece and its composer. Show more
Live from Chelmsford Cathedral. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces this week's selection of irresistible music for voices including Dvorak's jubilant setting of Psalm 149 and Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. Show more
Are the icons of classical music born or made? And what factors are at play in the making of an icon, beyond pure talent and artistry? Show more
A sonic painting of music, poetry and prose inspired by the 19th-century artistic revolutionaries, the Pre-Raphaelites. Show more
A fragmentary look at the American writer Susan Sontag through her own words and those of her peers. Show more
Alice and her lover Mosby conspire with hired killers to murder Alice's husband Arden. The anonymous dramatisation of a brutal true crime in Tudor England. Show more
The best concerts from Europe. Kate Molleson presents a performance by Collegium Vocale Leipzig and Merseburger Hofmusik and their director Michael Schonheit . Show more
Byrd, Geminiani, Babell, Matteis, Eccles and a nod to Handel in works given by violinist Ilia Korol and harpsichordist Jermaine Sprosse. Show more
From timpani to timbales, crotales to cow bells, Colin Currie conjures up a spectacular range of music for percussion. Show more
Clemmie prepares a bespoke classical playlist for the radical director of the new Mary Queen of Scots movie, Josie Rourke. Show more
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, performs Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in a recording from the 2016 BBC Proms. Presented by John Shea. Show more