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
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, including works by Dvorak, Shostakovich, Pisendel, JS Bach and Eric Coates. Show more
Cookery writer Valentina Harris tells Michael Berkeley about her romantic childhood in Tuscany and offers her tips for making the most of Christmas leftovers, Italian-style. Show more
From Wigmore Hall, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alessandro Fisher is joined by world-renowned accompanist Roger Vignoles to sing Schumann, Grieg, Delius and de Frumerie. Show more
Using the words of Good King Wenceslas, Hannah French explores Bohemian festive music and traditions with food writer Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and language coach Jarmila Karas. Show more
From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, on the Feast of St Stephen. Show more
Horatio Clare climbs Slieve Donard in the second Sound Walk up the four great peaks of the United Kingdom. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, focusing on releases from 2021 including those from Emma-Jean Thackray, Georgia Cécile and Abdullah Ibrahim. Show more
Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti read there. Miss World, boxing matches and the Proms have been staged there. Mike Oldfield to Hugh Masekela have played there. Show more
Historian Flora Willson tells the story of Verdi's operatic masterpiece from an Egyptian lens, a century and a half after its premiere at Cairo's Khedivial Opera House. Show more
Another chance to hear the Proms Festival Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth perform Shostakovish and Mahler's Fifth Symphony at the 2021 BBC Proms. Show more
From the BBC Proms: Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov performs Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations for solo piano. Show more
Free the Music with Pekka Kuusisto
The Comfortable and the Radical
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Pekka Kuusisto wonders why some elements of music age more elegantly than others, with examples from Imogen Heap, Gesualdo, Stravinsky Charles Ives and Finnish heavy metal. Show more
Clemmie Burton-Hill returns to host a seasonal edition with special guest Jamie Dornan, star of Belfast and a new BBC One thriller, The Tourist. Show more
The Radio France Philharmonic are joined by Barbara Hannigan as conductor and soloist in a concert including Britten and Stravinsky. Presented by John Shea. Show more