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: Celia Imrie, Monkey Glands, Sound the Trumpet
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 Verdi's involvement with politics and the Risorgimento as Italy worked to forge a new sense of unified identity. Show more
Sarah Walker presents Ravel Plus performed by baritone James Newby with the pianist Joseph Middleton at the 2019 Hay Festival, including works by Debussy, Duparc and Ravel. Show more
Riccardo Frizza conducts Bellini's Il Pirata starring Sonya Yoncheva and Pietro Pretti. Recorded at La Scala Milan. Show more
Live music and conversation, including performances from Tamara Stefanovich, Raphael Wallfisch and John York, and Il pomo d'oro. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch Show more
A specially curated mixtape of classical, world and folk music designed to calm the mind and relax the soul. Show more
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in works by Cage, Beethoven and Bartok. Show more
Free Thinking
Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt, Catherine Fletcher at Hay
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Simon Schama, Siri Hustvedt and Catherine Fletcher join Rana Mitter at the Hay Festival to discuss writing about art from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Louise Bourgeois. Show more
Alys Conran reflects on the experience of reading Robinson Crusoe as a novelist. Show more
John Doran joins Max Reinhardt to talk about New Weird Britain, a new wave of uncompromising music being made in the margins. Show more
Let's make the most of it. A night of music to soothe the soul, with Howells' Requiem, a Bach solo cello suite and a concert from Berlin of Bartok and Schumann. John Shea presents. Show more