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 left-hand piano music, Bruckner's Third Symphony, Barnaby Smith
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod traces James P Johnson’s career as a highly successful studio artist. Show more
Pianist Sam Haywood curates a series of concerts from The Venue at Leeds College of Music exploring the chamber music of Schubert and his peers, including Vorisek and Schumann. Show more
Fiona Talkington introduces Tristan and Isolde, retold in Julian Joseph's oratorio with a contemporary, multicultural backdrop to a libretto by Mike Phillips. Featuring the BBCCO. Show more
Katie Derham welcomes Ensemble Augelletti to the In Tune studio and talks to the French horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music featuring Richard Strauss's youthful First Horn Concerto and Benjamin Grosvenor playing Scriabin. Show more
Tenor Mark Padmore joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Martyn Brabbins for an evening devoted to music by Benjamin Britten. Show more
Free Thinking
Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Shahidha Bari talks to researchers taking part in the Being Human Festival and learns about looted Mexican coins that paid mill workers and a playhouse that inspired a film star. Show more
Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing. This time, despite the allure of its past, what about the Yorkshire of the future? What's in store? Show more
Hannah Peel with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. This episode was first broadcast in November 2020. Show more
Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification, including the latest releases and exclusive previews. Show more
Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daye Lin, play Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony and Fifth Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more