Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests and the Friday poem. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Suzy Klein: Robert Hollingworth, Essential Love Duets
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys Johann Sebastian Bach’s development as a composer whilst in Weimar. Show more
Highlights from the 2019/2020 Manchester Chamber Concerts Society season at the Royal Northern College of Music. Show more
Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC Orchestras and Choirs. Today, a feast of 20th- and 21st-century music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Show more
The Listening Service
Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven
30 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
What is it about Beethoven's music that has made it a concert hall staple for over 200 years? Tom Service goes in search of the essence of what makes Beethoven Beethoven. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to conductor and writer John Mauceri. Harpist Anne Denholm provides today's Home Session. Show more
Thirty minutes of uninterrupted music, including a Caruso classic plus operatic scenes from Leoncavallo and Verdi. Show more
BBC Proms: The John Wilson Orchestra presents a programme of Golden Age film music, with scores from Hollywood legends such as Bernard Herrmann, Erich Korngold and Miklós Rózsa. Show more
Sunday Feature
Alexander Korda - Producer, Director, Exile, Spy
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Matthew Sweet unearths the great film-maker Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent in America - and uncovers the spies he was helping to fund. Show more
Professor Fiona Stafford explores five iconic British beaches. Crosby beach, which marks the end of the River Mersey, on the edge of Liverpool, hosts 100 Antony Gormley statues . Show more
Verity Sharp hosts a remarkable, improvised collaboration between the renowned indigenous Brazilian musician-storyteller and the composer-singer-sound-artist from Essex. Show more
Grieg's Piano Concerto, with soloist Jan Lisiecki, and Schumann's Rhenish Symphony, performed by the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more