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
Actor Roger Allam talks to Michael Berkeley about his passions for music and Shakespeare and why he became an actor rather than an opera singer. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Soprano Ema Nikolovska in Schubert, Dvorak, Britten and more
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Live from Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau, including songs by Schubert, Dvorak, Britten and Lili Boulanger. Show more
The Early Music Show
Flautist Joachim Becerra Thomsen at the Copenhagen Baroque Festival
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Danish flautist Joachim Becerra Thomsen performs music by CPE Bach, Telemann, Quantz and Frederick the Great in a concert recorded at the 2020 Copenhagen Baroque Festival. Show more
From Ely Cathedral for the Feast of the Epiphany, with music by Warlock, Sumsion and Mendelssohn. Show more
Jazz records from across the genre, as requested by Radio 3 listeners.
In between the big names and often broad categorizations of lazy music history lurk many of the great composers. Who are they and why have they ended up in the gaps? Show more
A journey in poetry and music inspired by the environment with music by John Luther Adams, Joni Mitchell and Messiaen and words by John Clare, Lord Byron and Lavinia Greenlaw. Show more
Ken Hollings discusses Karel Capek's 1921 play R.U.R., a 'comedy of science and truth' about the end of mankind and its overthrow by robots in the far-flung 1950s. Show more
True crime docudrama about the secrets of a Russian refugee who ran the Peking underworld. Paul French goes in search of a lost life and a forgotten world. Drama by Sarah Wooley. Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including yesterday's Building a Library recommendation of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto. Show more
The Electronic Century with Gabriel Prokofiev
New Sonic Territories
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Gabriel Prokofiev explores the sounds made possible through synthesis, including the theremin and prototype synthesizers such as the ANS machine. Show more
Oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts a course through music both familiar and unfamiliar, with works by JS Bach, Amy Beach, Lu Wencheng and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate. Show more
Pianist Beatrice Berrut joins the English Chamber Orchestra and conductor Kaspar Zehnder in Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto. John Shea presents. Show more