Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more

Sarah Walker with a broad range of music, including works by Ruth Gipps, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Haydn. Her Sunday Escape features renaissance music by Victoria. Show more

Harry Enfield gives a rare interview and shares with Michael Berkeley his journey from punk to opera lover, with Verdi inspiring the theme tunes to his television series. Show more

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, baritone Christopher Maltman joins accompanist Graham Johnson to perform songs by Schubert, plus Schumann's cycle Liederkreis, Op 39. Show more

Director and musician Thomas Guthrie explains the history of the use of puppets in opera, arguing that puppets are still powerful tools with which to tell operatic stories today. Show more

An archive recording from St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, USA (first broadcast 24 July 1987). Show more

Sara Mohr-Pietch with her selection of irresistible choral music from Rossini to Chilcott. Show more

Tom Service considers drums - one of the most ancient and primitive instruments, yet capable of great sophistication in the context of the classical orchestra or a jazz band. Show more

Poetry and prose on the lives and fortunes of plants, animals and humans from the changing metropolis. With poems by Phillip Larkin, John Keats and Rainer Maria Rilke. Show more

A signalman on a remote railway line is visited by a traveller.
Written by Ross Sutherland, inspired by a Charles Dickens ghost story, with recordings by Chris Watson. Show more

Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates Sir Isaac Newton's obscure studies in alchemy to discover what they can tell us about science, religion and reason. Show more

In 1965 Joe Orton visits the American Embassy in London. He is immediately caught up in a Kafkaesque world of oppression and paranoia. Show more

Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, 'Babi Yar', a picture of life in the Soviet Union. With Fiona Talkington. Show more

Celebrating a summer of love with songs and dances of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque Italy in a concert given at Prague's Troja Castle. Simon Heighes presents. Show more

Classical guitarist Sean Shibe reveals the secrets of his world, exploring the rich sounds of the guitar and its relatives in music from seven centuries. Show more

Rebecca Lucy Taylor - aka Self Esteem - finds inspiration for her next album in Clemmie's classical playlist. Show more

Andreas Scholl in a recital of English songs of the Renaissance. With Jonathan Swain. Show more