Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Suzy Klein with Essential British choral works and Holst's The Perfect Fool
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Beethoven comes to realise that his failing hearing might never improve and composes an anguished letter to posterity, mourning his plight. Presented by Donald Macleod. Show more
Pianists Llyr Williams, Danny Driver and Alexander Gavrylyuk perform as part of the Perth Piano Series with works by Beethoven, Bach, Ligeti and Haydn. Show more
Orchestra della Svizzera italiana in Haydn and Mendelssohn at the Ticino DOC Festival, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart and Bruckner at the Ascona Music Festival. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, with conductor Timothy Henty and a Home Session from harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. Show more
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, we’ve a week of specially curated In Tune Mixtapes. Today, a musical journey on the theme of rest including music by Bach and Humperdinck. Show more
As part of a special week of broadcasts, Kate Molleson dips into the archive of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to explore recent performances of Beethoven symphonies. Show more
Free Thinking
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant Kidambi
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Rana Mitter presents three shortlisted historians: Prashant Kidambi on cricket and empire, Hallie Rubenhold on Jack the Ripper's victims and David Abulafia's study of oceans. Show more
Leading writers share the secrets of an internal place of refuge in times of crisis. Evie Wyld recalls her grandparents’ sugar cane farm in Australia. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev are joined by flautist Yubeen Kim in Mozart's Flute Concerto No 2 in D, K314. John Shea presents. Show more