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: Alistair McGowan, Arnold’s Beckus Dandipratt, Harold Godwinson’s Arrow
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Composer of the Week
England's Golden Age
James I's Chapel Royal and the short life of Orlando Gibbons
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod explores the Chapel Royal and the increasing importance of Orlando Gibbons in James I’s court. Show more
Tom McKinney with the third of four programmes in the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Series including pianist Stephen Hough and baritone Roderick Williams. Show more
Elizabeth Alker introduces a performance from Italy of Rossini's one-act comic opera, Adina. Show more
In Tune
Albina Shagimuratova, Tom Kerstens, Rodula Gaitanou, Matthew Kofi Waldren
2 hours on BBC Radio 3
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news with live performances from soprano Albina Shagimuratova and guitarist Tom Kerstens. plus we speak to director Rodula Gaitanou. Show more
In Tune’s specially curated mixtape featuring music by composers who were influenced by jazz - Tippett, Gershwin, Rutter, Ravel and Bernstein. Show more
Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mahler's Symphony No 1 in D and, with Martin James Bartlett, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 in F. Show more
Free Thinking
Orwell's 1984 - a Landmark of Culture
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, Dorian Lynskey and Lisa Mullen join Matthew Sweet to debate George Orwell's vision of a world of surveillance and propaganda. Show more
Harland Miller is an artist whose word-play and dexterous brushwork has won him acclaim. And he recalls how past decades have informed his work - after New York, Berlin beckoned. Show more
Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer Henry Threadgill about his musical journey. Show more
Composer Iain Chambers takes a sound recording field trip across Orford Ness, capturing the sounds of buildings used by the Ministry of Defence to develop Britain's nuclear weapons Show more
Mahler's Symphony No 2, 'Resurrection', performed by Leonard Slatkin and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with soloists Bernarda Fink and Martina Jankova. Show more