Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
Kate Molleson sits in for Sarah Walker, choosing three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you’re out walking or staying cosy with a coffee. Show more
Writer Susie Boyt tells Michael Berkeley about singing songs with her father, painter Lucian Freud, and about her lifelong love for Judy Garland. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Christian Poltéra and Kathryn Stott
57 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
From Wigmore Hall, Christian Poltéra and Kathryn Stott perform cello sonatas by Chopin and Prokofiev. Show more
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert by Il Pomo d'Oro and mandolin player Raffaele La Ragione, featuring Baroque concertos from Venice and La Ragione's native city of Naples. Show more
From St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, London, with the BBC Singers and brass of the BBC Concert Orchestra. Show more
Alyn Shipton presents your requests for music by the great American singer and pianist Nina Simone, who was born 90 years ago this week. Show more
The Listening Service
Mystery, rumour and deception: Mozart's Requiem
29 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Tom Service examines Mozart's final masterpiece, his Requiem, a work shrouded in mystery, rumour and deception. Show more
Jane Austen, Dickens, Aldous Huxley and Jenny Joseph bring us ball gowns, wedding dresses, purple, and creases with music from Prokofiev, Strauss, Anoushka Shankar and PJ Harvey. Show more
The permafrost is a thriving ecosystem, hidden just below the surface. Curator Sophie J Williamson ventures on a journey to discover the life of the permafrost. Show more
Professor Nandini Das celebrates the Nine Days Wonder of Shakespeare’s former clown Will Kemp, whose jig to Norwich from London caught the entrepreneurial spirit of the age. Show more
Chekhov's masterpiece in a new version by Katherine Tozer and composer John Chambers. Four artists at different stages of their careers compete for love and adulation. Show more
Hannah French presents more from the freshest recordings in classical music, including the recommended version of the Building a Library work, Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet. Show more
Richard Egarr on the Machine That Goes Ping!
3. Death and Transfiguration
59 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Richard Egarr takes us from the near-complete disappearance of the harpsichord in the 19th century to a remarkable revival. Show more
Linton Stephens mixes a classical playlist for BBC centenary competition winner, Nisa Riyadi. Show more
The Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Fabien Gabel in a programme of Alberga, Stravinsky and Mozart from Minneapolis. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. Show more