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 chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning. Show more
Forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire shares her favourite music with Michael Berkeley and explains how she solves murder cases by examining tiny particles under her microscope. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Hall Mondays: Fatma Said and James Vaughan
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artist Fatma Said in her brilliant 2018 Wigmore Hall debut with songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Egyptian composer Sherif Mohie El Din. Show more
Johann Christoph Pepusch found fame with his music for John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, but as Lucie Skeaping discovers, there were many more strings to his bow than that. Show more
From St Davids Cathedral (first broadcast 27 May 2009). Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners with music this week from Don Ellis, Keith Jarrett and Tony Kofi.
The Listening Service
Wagner’s Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores classical music’s ultimate binge-listening box set - Richard Wagner’s apocalyptic four-part 16-hour marathon music drama, The Ring. Show more
Cheryl Campbell and William Houston are the readers in a montage of music, prose and poetry ranging from Apsley Cherry-Garrard's Antarctic diaries to 2001 A Space Odyssey. Show more
A collaboration with Swedish photographer Maja Daniels exploring the mysteries of the endangered forest language her grandparents speak - Elfdalian. Show more
Gaelic songs and stories burst with mythical water creatures, from fairy cattle to waterfall banshees. Folk singer Julie Fowlis is our guide to the river life of the Highlands. Show more
Richard Wilson directs Duncan Macmillan's acclaimed stage play about a couple agonising over whether to have a baby. A co-production by Paines Plough and Sheffield Theatres. Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Beethoven's Symphony No 1. Show more
A journey from Manchester to Carlisle on the Flying Scotsman, one of the world's most famous and iconic steam engines, with privileged access to the driver on the footplate. Show more
Clemmie prepares a bespoke classical playlist for the radical director of the new Mary Queen of Scots movie, Josie Rourke. Show more
The Pavel Haas Quartet and La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Basle, in a concert from Spring 2018. With Catriona Young. Show more
