Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Tea and Biscuits, Berlioz's Ball scene, Celia Imrie
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the three hugely popular operas Verdi wrote in the early 1850s - Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Show more
Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus performed by pianist Louis Schwizgebel at the 2019 Hay Festival, including works by Debussy, Mussorgsky and Ravel. Show more
Andris Nelsons conducts the Leipzig Gewandaus Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Ruy Blas Overture and Italian Symphony plus Schumann's Symphony No 2. Show more
Live from St Davids Cathedral on the Eve of the Ascension. Show more
Showcasing the BBC New Generation Artists: Clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe plays Brahms, and the Aris Quartet play Dvorak. Show more
In Tune
Julia Fischer and Michael Tilson Thomas, Mari Kalkun, Wallis Giunta and Richard Egarr
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3's drive time programme, with a live performance from Julia Fischer and Michael Tilson Thomas. Show more
Themes of deception, jealousy and love weave their way through this half hour of uninterrupted music by Tallis, Kabalevsky, Rachmaninov, Kurt Weill and Rebecca Clarke. Show more
The Aris Quartet plays late works by Bach and Beethoven before Annelien Van Wauwe joins them for Max Reger's Clarinet Quintet, completed a few days before his death. Show more
Free Thinking
Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova join Rana Mitter in the BBC tent at the Hay Festival to look at the environmental movement past and present. Show more
Alex Wheatle re-reads Robinson Crusoe and reflects on its themes of imperialism and slavery. Show more
Max Reinhardt hosts, with an exclusive mixtape from legendary performance artist and avant-garde musician Cosey Fanni Tutti. Show more
RTE Symphony Orchestra perform Bax, Vaughan Williams and James Archibald Potter and there's chamber music from Clara Schumann. John Shea presents. Show more