Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with an engrossing musical mix
3 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker chooses two hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re going for a winter walk or doing some housework. Show more
Phantoms, Visions, Siren Voices: poetry and music merge in readings and songs performed by Guildhall musicians and actors, including two rarely performed melodramas. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is stonemason Simon Warrack. With Vivaldi, Mozart, Elgar and Tippett. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, former New Generation Artists the Calidore Quartet perform one of Beethoven's early quartets, together with Smetana's First String Quartet, 'From My Life'. Show more
Songs and Seasons: Spring Dreams, Summer Fires, Winter Nights. Explore Finland’s choral tradition. Owain Park conducts the BBC Singers performing Sibelius, Madetoja and Kuula. Show more
Live from Westminster Abbey, with music by Byrd, Errollyn Wallen, Parry and Guilmant. Show more
Jazz Record Requests
New discoveries and evergreen classics
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, including music by Billie Holiday, Patrice Rushen and Sarah Tandy Show more
The Listening Service
Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service takes a musical dive into the decadent sound world of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's epoque-making The Threepenny Opera.
Jasmine Hyde and Michael Begley read from translations of À La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 to 18 November 1922), with music evoking the period. Show more
As the BBC marks its centenary, poet Paul Muldoon examines how he and his fellow Northern Irish writers responded to the challenges of broadcasting in a divided community. Show more
Stories, Quests and Secret Sagas. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in four vivid musical mini-epics with readings from the stories and poetry that inspired them. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Grieg's Violin Sonata No 3. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Sibelius the Storyteller (4/4)
1 hour, 4 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Crossings, Creations and Immersions: music and words inspired by Finnish legend and landscape. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’s masterpiece Tapiola. Show more
Opera, the Art of Emotions
Episode 3 - Joy, Jubilation and Courage
59 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Soprano Nadine Benjamin explores how opera composers use music to create a heightened emotional response in their audiences. Why can opera be so thrilling and compelling? Show more
Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for comedian and writer Catherine Bohart. Show more
Petros Stylianou conducts the ERT National Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 1, 'Winter Daydreams'. Catriona Young presents. Show more
