Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music.

Tom Service is joined by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, uncovers the percussive world of the handpan, and plays the best classical music to start your weekend. Show more

Jools is joined by poet and novelist Sir Ben Okri, with music by Mozart, Moondog, Florence Price and Claude Debussy. Show more

Clemency Burton-Hill traces the first steps of this remarkable musical adventure. Show more

In Building a Library Joanna MacGregor chooses her favourite recording of JS Bach's Keyboard Partitas BWV 825-830, and Ben Gernon shares his favourite new releases. Show more

Agnes Poirier is at Cannes film festival. She tells of Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the recognition of female directors. Presented by Matthew Sweet. Show more

Jess Gillam and conductor Chloé van Soeterstède share the tracks they love, with music from Schubert, Khachaturian, CPE Bach, Dani Howard, Mulatu Astatke and Mitski.

Aigul Akhmetshina sings Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, with Piotr Beczala as her Don José and Antonello Manacorda conducting. Show more

Lopa chats to the Staples Jr. Singers about their new album 'Searching', and we are joined by Max Reinhardt to pay tribute to Algerian pianist Maurice El Médioni. Show more

Alwynne Pritchard's compelling music theatre performance explores our connections to the institutions of love, labour, devotion and dissent that have shaped human history. Show more

Pianist Kit Armstrong joins Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Jonathan Nott in Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. John Shea presents. Show more