Kate Molleson presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Show more
Essential Classics
Refresh your morning with classical music
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Tom McKinney plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. Show more
Donald Macleod finds Lalo finally enjoying success when he hits the jackpot with his second opera. Music includes excerpts from Le roi d'Ys, and his only string quartet. Show more
Chamber music performances by Trio Gaspard and the newly formed period string ensemble, Spunicunifait. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Carl Nielsen's Sixth Symphony
2 hours, 32 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for years
Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No 6, 'Sinfonia semplice'. Show more
The Listening Service
Unripe Cherries: Brahms's Symphony No 4
29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Tom Service explores one of the most popular, played and performed works of all time, Johannes Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor. Show more
Jazz vocalist Imogen Ryall performs tracks from her new album, live in the studio. Plus more live music from the Armonico Consort. Show more
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkham in Messaien and in Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. Nicholas Daniel joins as cor anglais soloist for Tarkiainen's Milky Ways. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Ian McMillan marks 50 years of the iconic film - with guests Sarah Hall, David Bramwell, Eliza Skelton and Brian Peters. Show more
New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen profiles Inez Holden, novelist and journalist who reported on the Nuremberg Trials and was a friend of George Orwell, HG Wells and Stevie Smith. Show more
Late Junction
JJJJJerome and Angeline Morrison in session
1 hour, 29 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for 6 months
Another chance to join Verity Sharp for a specially-curated long-distance collaboration session between US poet-musician JJJJJerome and British folk artist Angeline Morrison. Show more
Ólafur Arnalds looks for the silver linings in sound with musical selections based around hope, including a Safe Haven from actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Show more
Essential Classics Mix
Essential Classics for the weekend
1 hour, 1 minute
on BBC Radio 3Available for 8 months
An hour of carefree classical music to wind down at the weekend. Show more
Chamber music by Schumann, Brahms, Britten and Vaughan Williams from the 2021 Zwischentöne Festival. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
