Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Show more
Donald Macleod charts the extraordinary life of composer and jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams. Today, he explores her years in vaudeville and with Andy Kirk's 12 Clouds of Joy. Show more
Jess Dandy and Malcolm Martineau perform songs depicting 16th-century life. Show more
Joshua Weilerstein conducts music by Hannah Kendall, George Walker and Beethoven, and the BBC Singers continue their celebration of Cecilia McDowall 70th birthday. Show more
The Doric String Quartet perform live in the studio, and Simon Trpceski talks to Sean about his new recording of Shostakovich Piano Concertos and Piano Trios. Show more
Hush... In Tune's specially curated playlist ventures into a capricious dream world of sighs, cries, chimeras and witches Show more
The Scottish Ensemble celebrates the arrival of summer with dances from Hungary, The Balkans, Panama and Argentina and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for strings. Show more
Free Thinking
Novelist Tahmima Anam, plus was Nero a ruthless tyrant?
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
The British Museum is exploring the myth of Nero. Anne McElvoy talks to the curator, to author Tahmima Anam and to New Generation Thinker Mirela Ivanova about Balkan history. Show more
Edmund weaves his own story of becoming a potter with tales of the great pots and potters of the past - here is a tribute to Wedgwood's mastery. Show more
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
James Gaffigan conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a programme including Sibelius's symphonic poem Luonnotar with soprano soloist Camilla Tilling. With Catriona Young. Show more