Join Petroc and the team for a Christmas Day special, with Paul Guinery at the piano and featuring listener requests.

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more

Donald Macleod surveys Johann Sebastian Bach’s development as a composer whilst in Weimar. Show more

Recorded in the majestic beauty of the 15th-century chapel of King's College, Cambridge. Christmas carols and hymns sung by the world-famous chapel choir. Show more

Horatio Clare sets out on a Sound Walk chasing the December sunrise on the Pilgrim's Path to Holy Island. Show more

Mahan Esfahani confesses he doesn’t care for, or even respect, the music of Handel and asks singer Dame Sarah Connolly to show him the path to enlightenment. Show more

New Generation Artists cellist Anastasia Kobekina plays Rachmaninov, and Katharina Konradi sings Tchaikovsky in a feast of Russian Romanticism. Show more

Sam West with the personal letters of Charles Dickens, who died in 1870, to friends, family and other literary greats, including Mrs Gaskell and Wilkie Collins set to music. Show more

Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins period instrument group the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a celebration of baroque concertos. Show more

Alan Bennett narrates Hymn with music by George Fenton sung by the BBC Singers. The BBC Concert Orchestra perform Richard Allain's A Christmas Carol, narrated by Stephen Fry. Show more

Ross Sutherland traces the extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan. Father of performance art and surrealism, Cravan's strange life is the ultimate art enigma. Show more

It’s Christmas night. Poet Saul Williams joins Verity Sharp for a fireside adventure. Plus sounds to ward off darkness and a light-controlled performance from Leafcutter John. Show more

Camerata Variabile Basel at the 2018 Schaffhausen Bach Festival in Switzerland. With Jonathan Swain. Show more