Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Sally Phillips, Mrs Salmon's Waxworks, Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music. With guest, actress and comedian Sally Phillips. Show more
We hear about the terrifying moment Shostakovich received a call from Stalin. Donald Macleod presents Shostakovich's String Quartet No 4 and Violin Concerto No 1. Show more
Benjamin Appl sings some Schubert mini-masterpieces with scenes of springtime and birdsong. The Schumann Quartet perform Brahms's first quartet, influenced in part by Schubert. Show more
Rameau's Les Boreades recorded live at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Introduced by Hannah French. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music and arts, with live music in the studio from the recorder quartet BLOCK4, and we hear from the tenor Anando Mukerjee. Show more
Put a spring into your step with a sequence of classical, alternative and folk music specially made to fill your day with joy. Show more
Mahler's gargantuan Symphony No 2 performed by Anne Schwanewilms, Alice Coote and the Halle choir and orchestra under Sir Mark Elder, live from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Show more
Free Thinking
2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Rana Mitter and the six shortlisted historians with an audience at the British Academy: John Blair, Mary Fulbrook, Margarette Lincoln, Jeremy Mynott, Matthew Sturgis, Miles Taylor. Show more
Starting at the alternative beachcombers' Biennale on the Lido, writer Polly Coles discusses the work of some of the many Venetian artists revitalising the city today. Show more
Nick Luscombe pans for gold in the nonstop stream of available music. With deep percussive grooves from Nigeria and a suite of chamber music created on the fly. Show more
A night of music celebrating the musical life of Bulgaria. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more