Antonio Pappano explores the great roles and the greatest singers through the prism of the main voice types. He continues with the tenor, opera's glamour boy. Show more

Antonio Pappano explores the great roles and singers through the prism of the main voice types. He continues with the mezzo-soprano, often the rival or the villainess. Show more

Antonio Pappano explores the great roles and singers through the prism of the main voice types. He concludes by looking at the baritones and basses. Show more

Howard Goodall explores why Sgt Pepper is still seen as so innovative, so revolutionary and so influential, with the help of outtakes and studio conversations between the band. Show more

Series featuring rock, pop and R'n'B performances from the BBC archives, including Alan Price, Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger and Herman's Hermits. Show more

Series featuring rock, pop and R'n'B performances from the BBC archives, with Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Long John Baldry, Tom Jones and Cliff Richard. Show more

1968 brought colour transmission to the BBC and artists such as The Kinks, The Moody Blues and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band appear in all their polychrome glory. Show more

The BBC's music archive programme reaches the end of the sixties and features Pink Floyd, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell.

Vintage rock, pop and soul performances from the BBC archives. The Faces perform Stay with Me in 1972.

Exploring Britain's private country houses. Easton Neston was completed in 1702 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, but to what extent was its design directed by Christopher Wren? Show more

Composer Howard Goodall traces the development of music from the religious 'Gregorian' chant to the growth of instrumental and folk music between 1000 and 1600. Show more

Howard Goodall looks at the fertile musical period between 1650 and 1750, in which many of the musical innovations we take for granted today were invented. Show more

Howard Goodall looks at the age in which composers went from being the paid servants of princes and archbishops to working as freelancers. Show more

Series on the revolution in 20th century music looks at how modernism came under state control in the 1930s and how a new generation of composers tried to reinvent it. Show more

Howard Goodall examines the music of the middle to late 19th century, in which a craze for operas and music that dealt with death and destiny swept Europe. Show more

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the period when modernism in music arrived, and when the birth of recorded sound changed the way music was heard forever. Show more

Composer Howard Goodall looks at the popular age - the last hundred years in music. A period when classical music seemed to many to be in retreat. Show more

John Eliot Gardiner explores Johann Sebastian Bach's music and tours Germany as he goes in search of the real Bach - a warm family man, passionate artist and rebellious spirit. Show more

Suzy Klein tells the story of the composers and musicians who shaped the 18th-century British musical map. She investigates music as a weapon in the fight for British identity. Show more

Featuring some of the decade's best-known exponents of reggae, ska, rap and dance music, including UB40, Aswad, The Beat, Run DMC, Public Enemy and Neneh Cherry. Show more