Georgia Mann presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Dobrinka Tabakova, Monteverdi Vespers, Bridget of Sweden
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. With guest this week, composer Dobrinka Tabakova. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the music, and what little is known of the life, of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Today, Biber’s music for church and stage. Show more
NGA Aleksey Semenenko plays the FAE sonata written by three friends - Schumann, his pupil Dietrich and Brahms - as a gift for Joseph Joachim as well as other works for the violin. Show more
Continuing our week of performances by BBC Philharmonic, there's music by Granville Bantock, Sally Beamish and Jean Sibelius live from Salford. It's presented by Tom McKinney. Show more
Live from Salisbury Cathedral. Show more
BBC New Generation Artists: Elisabeth Brauss plays Schumann's Kinderszenen, a series of miniatures which capture his memories of childhood. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news. Belle Chen joins us in the studio, and we hear from comedian Vikki Stone, Emma Halnan and Daniel King-Smith Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, featuring favourites, lesser-known gems, and a few surprises. Show more
Vasily Petrenko conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian and Walton. Show more
Free Thinking
Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais?
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The writers of TV sitcoms The Likely Lads, Porridge and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet talk to Matthew Sweet. Show more
Professor Fiona Stafford explores the nationally loved daffodil and presents many surprises including that they are not Welsh and that the UK leads the world in daffodil exports. Show more
Verity Sharp marks 100 years of the Bauhaus Art School. Show more
Mahler Symphony No 2 from the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth. Catriona Young presents. Show more