Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring Countdown to Spring and listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod follows Ruth Gipps' progress as she begins a period of study at the Royal College of Music in London, with music including her early symphonic poem Knight in Armour. Show more
The Nash Ensemble shed light on the influences of European masters on Elgar. Today, Elgar's much-loved violin sonata is paired with Schumann's piano quartet. Show more
Music by contemporary women composers from across the world interspersed with works by 20th-century trailblazers from the UK, Grace Williams, Dorothy Howell and Minna Keal. Show more
Sean Rafferty talks to violinist Janusz Wawrowski about his album of concertos by Rózycki & Tchaikovsky plus Howard Shelley on the London Mozart Players’ new Piano Explored series. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: an eclectic mix of music, including a few surprises. Join Duke Ellington's Caravan and travel to Mahler's Vienna and Verdi's Spain. Show more
Violinist Elena Urioste joins Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra in Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. Plus Ravel's Introduction and Allegro and Mendelssohn's Octet. Show more
Free Thinking
From Life on Mars to Dangerous Space Junk
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The Whipple Science Museum in Cambridge holds a Mars globe. Curator Josh Nall talks to Seb Falk, alongside space historian Timothy Peacock and psychologist Hannah Smithson. Show more
Lucy Powell asks so few of us know the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding. Was she doomed to be consigned to the annals of history by her illustrious brother Henry? Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
The NDR Elbphilharmonie perform 20th century French music by Poulenc, Ravel, Roussel and Ibert. Presented by Catriona Young. Show more