Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.

Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re preparing for lunch or taking a walk in the park. Show more

Looking ahead to International Women’s Day, a second chance to hear Michael Berkeley’s interview with trailblazing surgeon Dame Clare Marx, who died in November 2022. Show more

Live from Wigmore Hall: Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alexander Gadjiev plays Schumann's Fantasie and Prokofiev's Sonata No 7, two masterpieces of the piano repertoire. Show more

Vittoria and Raffaella Aleotti were nuns and composers - but were they one person or two? Mystery and music from late 16th-century Italy, with Lucie Skeaping. Show more

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Stanford, Vaughan Williams and Widor. Show more

Alyn Shipton looks forward to next weekend's Cheltenham Jazz Festival with tracks chosen by some of this year's featured artists.

Tom Service translates the often baffling language of classical music naming and numbering. Show more

We range across musical fusions, the black-and-white piano keyboards, the inspiration of Jamaica and writings by Hannah Lowe, Leone Ross, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. Show more

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough delves into the history of runes, the ancient alphabet of northern Europe. Travelling to Orkney, she learns how and why these spiky letters were used. Show more

Shakespeare's classic told as a dysfunctional love story between an ageing black empress and a failing old white military hero, self-destructing, ransacking the world to survive. Show more

Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony. Show more

An exploration into slow motion sounds. Stockholm-based artist Milo Lavén reveals the hidden sonic world within slowed-down sounds. Show more

Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, mixing bespoke classical playlists for music-loving guests. This week's guest is writer Jeffrey Boakye. Show more

For tonight's main concert, it's the turn of the Swiss National Youth Orchestra with a programme of Haydn, Beethoven and a piece written for them by a former member. Show more