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 on the sofa or in the park. Show more

Michael Berkeley's guest is Pulitzer prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson. Show more

Live from Wigmore Hall, Lawrence Power and Sergio Bucheli perform a wide-ranging programme for viola and lute, including Dieterich Buxtehude, Luciano Berio and Errollyn Wallen. Show more

Lucie Skeaping introduces the second of two shows dedicated to highlights from the 2022 London International Festival of Early Music. Show more

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Rorem, Walton, Wesley and Dupré. Show more

Alyn Shipton celebrates International Jazz Day today with your requests for jazz of all styles from across the globe. Show more

From shortbread tins to the Royal Mile, rugby games and highland weddings, the bagpipes have long symbolised Scottish identity. But where did they come from and what are they for? Show more

From Malcolm Arnold's Cornish dances to Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and a ceremony in Sarajevo, poems by Wendy Cope, Philip Larkin and The Workers' Maypole by Walter Crane. Show more

Corvids (crows, rooks, magpies, ravens, jays) are deeply symbolic and possessed of great intelligence. But is it consciousness? Scientist Nicola Clayton wonders at the corvid mind. Show more

New Generation Thinker and Bob Dylan fan Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates the story behind the iconic image of Bob Dylan boarding a ferry between England and Wales. Show more

Recorded entirely on location, this is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies – about love, betrayal and disguise. Show more

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

The sounds of energy generation across the industrial heart of Northumberland, from past eras of coal-fired power stations to the towering wind turbines of today. Show more

Miriam Skinner explores the quirky, peculiar and sometimes surprising connections that link the music tracks in her personal selection. Show more

Strauss's Four Last Songs with soprano Emma Pearson and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, plus Metamorphosen and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. John Shea presents. Show more