Miranda Hinkley looks back on the 60-year career of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, best known for the music for the film Zorba the Greek. Show more

Kathryn Stott tells how Michael Tippett inspired a depressed mining community in Cleveland with his very first opera Robin Hood. And 75 years later, local residents are reviving it. Show more

Lowri Blake discusses the revival of the music of Louise Heritte-Viardot and Mel Bonis, two French women composers who fought against the prejudice and pressures of their time. Show more

Tristram Hunt explores the outpouring of music and cultural responses to the death in 1612 of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I. Show more

Jeremy Summerly eavesdrops on Thomas Attwood's composition lessons with Mozart, using surviving manuscripts which provide a unique glimpse of the great composer. Show more

Film composer Christopher Young explores how music for horror movies use scare tactics developed by the greats including Mozart, Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner and Penderecki. Show more

National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner explores five years of federal arts funding in Roosevelt's New Deal America - and the music it produced. Show more

Julian Lloyd Webber introduces four heroes of the cello-playing world: Felix Salmond, Milos Sadlo, Antonio Janigro and Leonard Rose, asking why they are not better known. Show more

Richard Bernas presents a critial survey of minimalism in music, talking to Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Bob Wilson, Louis Andriessen and Michael Nyman among others. Show more

Andrew Green tells the story of the last days of London's Queen's Hall, which was destroyed in the Blitz in 1941. It was one of the great concert venues in Europe. Show more

Ivan Hewett explores the musical enigma of conductor Carlos Kleiber, talking to Placido Domingo. Celebrated as a genius, Kleiber gave few performances and never granted interviews. Show more

Novelist and guitar fan Louis de Bernieres and guitarist Craig Ogden visit the museum devoted to Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia to discover more about the man. Show more

Susan Rutherford explores the history of opera outside London, from touring companies travelling around on their own steam trains, to the sad demise of star singer Maria Malibran. Show more

Tom Mckinney meets guitarist Julian Bream to discuss his career and a defining composition by Benjamin Britten that helped to elevate him and his instrument onto the global stage. Show more

Bridget Kendall tells the story of Stravinsky's 1962 trip to Russia after almost 50 years of living in exile and the impact the visit had on the composer and musicians in the USSR. Show more

James Jolly explores Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and the hidden depths to this famous crowd-pleaser, which plays fast and loose with history. Show more

Andrew Green explores the story of the famous Royal Albert Hall performances in the 1920s and 30s of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha. Show more

Evelyn Glennie celebrates the 250th birthday of one of the most unusual of all musical instruments, the glass armonica, invented in 1762 by Benjamin Franklin. Show more

Norman Lebrecht looks at a few of the more ill-advised classical recordings and discusses them with some of the leading record producers of the past 40 years. Show more

Writers Janice Galloway and Iwo Zaluski follow in the footsteps of Frederic Chopin who, in 1848, visited Scotland on what was to be his final tour.