Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with a stirring musical mix
3 hours, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re hunkering down with a hot drink or enjoying the bright January skies. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is the American film director Todd Field. With Mahler, Elgar, Gorecki and Sarah Vaughan. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, brothers Paul and Huw Watkins perform cello sonatas by Debussy and Fauré, as well as Schumann 5 Pieces in Folk Style and Michael Zev Gordon's Roseland. Show more
The Early Music Show
Light in the Darkness: Chiaroscuro
19 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
As part of Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season, Lucie Skeaping explores depictions of chiaroscuro - a technique used in visual art that produces striking musical contrasts too. Show more
A carol service for Epiphany from the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge. 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 from Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett and Billie Holiday. Show more
The Listening Service
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
32 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, asking what is the secret of its continuing emotional appeal and also why critics disliked it so much. Show more
Writings by Naomi Alderman, Ian McEwan, DH Lawrence, Stephen Spender and Polly Atkin. We have pylons, power cuts, surges and sparks with music. Make sure your radio's earthed. Show more
Clare Pollard pieces together the fascinating life and work of Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England, who wrote the first ever sonnet sequence in the English language. Show more
The opening of a coastal eco-village is interrupted because of toxic waste in the water supply. An original play by Steve Waters, based on Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mahler's Symphony No 6 in A minor. Show more
Anna describes how pencil sketches worked their way into Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices, and the importance of a black-and-white print to Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead. Show more
Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for comedian and actor Michelle de Swarte. Show more
A concert from China's Neo-Classica Chamber Orchestra, made up of players born after the year 2000. They perform Schnittke, Respighi and Max Richter. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more
