Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Ian Skelly with Wallen's Photography and essential bird music
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly. Show more
Donald Macleod and Anastasia Belina consider how Augusta Holmès and Henri Duparc’s musical trajectories led them to study with César Franck. Includes Duparc's rescued Cello Sonata. Show more
Pianist Nicholas Angelich plays works by Beethoven and Brahms. Show more
Fiona Talkington presents concerts by some of the world's top youth orchestras - today, featuring one of the oldest and one of the youngest, both from the Netherlands. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to the singer and conductor Barbara Hannigan. Today's Home Session is by kora player Seckou Keita. Show more
Classical Mixtape
Celebrating classical music by black composers and performers
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
An eclectic playlist celebrating black composers and performers, including music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still and Errollyn Wallen.
Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Mozart, Ravel's ballet Daphnis and Chloe and Thomas Zehetmair plays Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2. Show more
Claudia Rogers and Nandini Das talk to John Gallagher about up-ending historical stories and look back to the conquest of Cortés who fought the Battle of Otumba on 7 July 1520. Show more
In the past, people often carried facial scars. Were we more tolerant of difference or more judgemental? New Generation Thinker Emily Cock looks at portraits and medical texts. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The Swedish Radio Choir perform music from the German choral tradition alongside contemporary Lithuanian works. Presented by John Shea. Show more