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 - Debussy's En Bateau, Myra Hess, Nicole Farhi
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein, with guest, the fashion designer and sculptor Nicole Farhi Show more
Donald Macleod explores the life and music of African-American composer William Grant Still. Today, an unhappy brush with Hollywood, and Still’s Fourth Symphony, ‘Autochthonous'. Show more
Baritone Thomas Oliemans joins the pianist Malcolm Martineau in a recital intertwining Schumann's song cycle Liederkreis Op 39 with some of Brahms' romances. Show more
Delibes’ final opera Kassya (completed by Massenet) in a performance from Montpellier conducted by Michael Schonwandt and starring the French soprano Véronique Gens. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents, with live music from mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and guitarist Andrey Lebedev, and pianist Leon McCawley. Plus conductor Karen Kamensek. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Show more
Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC SSO explore the roots and resonances of Mahler's First Symphony with Bernstein, Bloch and a Klezmer Band. Show more
Free Thinking
Self Knowledge, Global Catastrophe and Simulated Worlds.
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Self-knowledge, intellectual vices and conspiracy theories are debated by Professor Quassim Cassam and Matthew Sweet. Plus Simon Beard on art depicting existential threat. Show more
Writer and broadcaster AL Kennedy continues her exploration of voice. Today, she remembers the soothing radio voices of her childhood. Show more
Actor Toby Jones takes over the Late Junction mixtape with a rummage through the outer reaches of his record collection. With Nick Luscombe. Show more
A dawn chorus and poetry from Snowdonia Show more
The Orpheus Symphony Orchestra performs Grieg's epic adventure, narrated in Russian. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more