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, including works by Handel, Holst, Dvorak, Gossec, Chaminade and JS Bach. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is novelist and poet Nadifa Mohamed. With music by Pergolesi, Vaughan Williams and Max Richter. Show more
Baritone James Newby and pianist Simon Lepper perform songs by Schumann, Warlock and Ireland. Show more
The Early Music Show
Music at the Court of Catherine the Great
23 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Lucie Skeaping introduces music from the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, including Galuppi, Sarti and Traetta as well as local talent like Bortniansky. Show more
From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Bach, Elgar, Stanford and Hassler. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records from across the genre as requested by Radio 3 listeners, with music this week from Helen Forrest, Barbara Thompson and Yusef Lateef.
Tom Service explores the meaning of virtuosity. He considers how much it is about excellent instrumental technique and how much it is about the ability communicate movingly. Show more
Readings by Adjoa Andoh and Guy Burgess of poems and prose by Langston Hughes, Virginia Woolf and Jean Toomer, with music by Ellington, Ravel and Vaughan Williams. Show more
Author Carlo Gébler, son of Edna O’Brien, asks why the children of writers often follow in a parent’s footsteps to become writers themselves. Show more
Alice and her lover Mosby conspire with hired killers to murder Alice's husband Arden. The anonymous dramatisation of a brutal true crime in Tudor England. Show more
Hannah French presents more music from the freshest recordings in classical music, including part of the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Handel's Tamerlano. Show more
The Electronic Century with Gabriel Prokofiev
For the Record
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Gabriel Prokofiev explores how the manipulation of recorded sound opened up new opportunities for composition, from sampling to musique concrete and electroacoustic music. Show more
Guest presenter Jules Buckley stands in for Clemmie Burton-Hill and mixes a classical playlist for Jehnny Beth, singer of punk rock band Savages. Show more
Young Romanian pianist Kira Frolu performs Debussy, Chopin, Silvestri and Beethoven. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more
