Tasmin Little, Iona Brown and Allan Stephenson reflect on the impact of Ralph Vaughan Williams's most English of works. From 2001. Show more

How the beauty and richness of an orchestral fantasia inspired a young boy, and comforted a grieving father. From September 2009. Show more

Stephen Johnson analyses Vaughan Williams's settings of the Tudor poet John Skelton's verse in Five Tudor Portraits. Show more

Stephen Johnson reveals how Vaughan Williams transformed the music of his most famous film score to create his Seventh Symphony. Show more

Vaughan Williams’s choral masterpiece, a setting of Walt Whitman's poetry. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Show more

Dona nobis pacem' is a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war. The work is in six movements and includes texts by Walt Whitman and from the book of Jeremiah Show more

The Lark Ascending was inspired by a poem of the same name written by George Meredith, which tells the tale of a skylark singing an impossibly beautiful, almost heavenly, song Show more

The 'Pastoral' landscape refers not to the leafy hills of Surrey but to the blasted terrain of the fields of France. It is a beautiful elegy to the dead of the First World War. Show more

First transmitted in 2005, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs works by Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams. (2005) Show more

Stephen Johnson and Kate Kennedy join Louise Fryer to talk about Vaughan Williams and his London Symphony. Is it a picture postcard, a dark premonition or more complex and subtle? Show more

With 16 soloists and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.

Tom Service is joined by Ceri Owen and Jonathan Downing to talk about Vaughan Williams's Blake-inspired Job: A Masque for Dancing. Show more

Robin Tritschler - tenor, Iain Paterson - baritone, Hallé Youth Choir, Trinity Boys Choir, Hallé and Hallé Choir conducted by Sir Mark Elder.