Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

In Building a Library Natasha Loges chooses her favourite version of Brahms's Clarinet Trio, and Jeremy Sams shares some exciting new releases. Show more

Tom Service talks to German conductor Christian Thielemann and hears from Beninese-French singer-songwriter and actress Angélique Kidjo. Show more

Jess Gillam and cellist Matthew Barley swap the music they love. With tracks by Elza Soares, Marianna Martines, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Paul McCartney Show more

Accordionist Martynas Levickis reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including music by two Gustavs: cheeky intergalactic bassoons from Holst, and Mahler remixed. Show more

Listeners call in to tell Matthew Sweet about the films they saw on - both successful and, very frequently, disastrous - first dates. Show more

Kathryn Tickell features a live session from Irish singer-songwriter Lisa O'Neill, who performs material from her widely acclaimed fifth album, All of This Is Chance. Show more

Concert highlights from renowned jazz singer Carmen Lundy, recorded live at this year's We Out Here festival, plus drummer and producer Kassa Overall shares his inspirations. Show more

Verdi's epic opera combines love, war, religion and fate, and is sung by a stellar cast including Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde and Etienne Dupuis, conducted by Mark Elder. Show more

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds, including Thomas Larcher's The Living Mountain and Chaya Czernowin's Hidden - 'A never-ending sonic pleasure'. Show more

Corey Mwamba presents new music that uses sound for imaginative questing and exploration: percussion on tables, crunching apples and the echo of ancestral memory. Show more