Martin Handley presents Breakfast, including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Sunday Morning
Sarah Walker with an enchanting musical mix
3 hours, 1 minute on BBC Radio 3
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Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re going for a walk or doing some gardening. Show more
Michael Berkeley’s guest is textile designer Kaffe Fassett. With The Beatles, Arvo Pärt, and West Side Story. Show more
Live from Wigmore Hall, mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings Baroque rarities in a programme taken from her multi-awarding-winning 2021 album Amazone. Show more
Lucie Skeaping on the life and career of the famous 18th-century castrato Caffarelli, for whom many composers created roles, including Handel, Porpora and Hasse. Show more
From the Chapel of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren. Show more
Jazz Record Requests
New discoveries and evergreen classics
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you, including music by Norma Winstone, Jo Lawry and Sidney Bechet. Show more
The Listening Service
Symphonic Steampunk: Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Tom Service dissects Camille Saint-Saëns's Third Symphony, his 'Organ Symphony', famously featured in the Disney film Babe. With organist Anna Lapwood. Show more
Audre Lorde described herself as 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Her words are set alongside recordings by Chineke!, the Kanneh-Masons, Sarah Vaughan and Miriam Makeba. Show more
How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham? Gregory Leadbetter’s poem traces this story from the discovery of ore in the dark ages to the birth of heavy metal music. Show more
By Josh Azouz, a new play about a marriage break up, with Paul Chahidi and Dorothea Myer Bennett. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Purcell's opera The Fairy Queen. Show more
Richard Egarr on the Machine That Goes Ping!
1. The Ascent
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Richard Egarr traces the development of the harpsichord from instruments plucked by the hand, to the psaltery and the virginal, charting its unstoppable rise in popularity. Show more
Linton Stephens makes a classical playlist for comedian Sarah Keyworth. Show more
The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle perform Schubert's Ninth Symphony and are joined by Leonidas Kavakos for Berg's Violin Concerto. With John Shea. Show more