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Radio 3,·507 episodes
Tom Service in conversation with composer John Rutter.
10 Dec 2022,·44 mins
Composer Laura Bowler, music in UK prisons, and national anthems at the World Cup.
03 Dec 2022,·44 mins
Kate Molleson speaks to Irish soprano Ailish Tynan at home.
26 Nov 2022,·44 mins
The pianist Alice Sara Ott, Classical music and Climate Change, and culture in Qatar.
19 Nov 2022,·44 mins
The latest news and features from the classical music world.
12 Nov 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service in conversation with Katia and Marielle Labèque.
05 Nov 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to director Netia Jones and countertenor Iestyn Davies.
29 Oct 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service joins violinist Rachel Podger for a walk in the Brecon Beacons.
22 Oct 2022,·44 mins
Kate Molleson and music-making in Northern Ireland.
15 Oct 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service with a special programme to mark World Mental Health Day.
08 Oct 2022,·44 mins
Kate Molleson talks to violinist Christian Tetzlaff.
01 Oct 2022,·44 mins
Pianist Vikingur Ólafsson, plus Verdi's Aida and Janacek's The Makropulos Affair
24 Sep 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to American composer John Adams about his new opera Antony and Cleopatra
17 Sep 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service visits Blackpool to find out about its rich musical heritage.
09 Jul 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service and his guests discuss the big topics affecting the music industry in 2022.
02 Jul 2022,·44 mins
Max Richter, the WNO production of Migrations and a new book on Inca music reimagined.
25 Jun 2022,·44 mins
Scottish Opera at 60, writer Jan Carson, and an exhibition on violinist Felix Yaniewicz.
18 Jun 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to Tyshawn Sorey, plus John Mauceri on his new book The War on Music.
11 Jun 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to Welsh bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel about his extraordinary career.
04 Jun 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to tenor Freddie De Tommaso and choral director André J Thomas.
28 May 2022,·44 mins
Kate Molleson visits Glyndebourne Festival Opera to hear about Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers.
21 May 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service with a Vaughan Williams special to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
14 May 2022,·44 mins
Simon Rattle and Magdalena Kožená talk about performing the music of Kurt Weill together.
07 May 2022,·44 mins
Violinist Leila Josefowicz talks about Bach and a new work by Matthias Pintscher.
30 Apr 2022,·44 mins
23 Apr 2022,·44 mins
16 Apr 2022,·44 mins
New opera The Paradis Files.
09 Apr 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to virtuoso vocalist Bobby McFerrin, plus The Handmaid's Tale in opera.
02 Apr 2022,·44 mins
Tom Service talks to author Brendan Slocumb and Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä.
26 Mar 2022,·44 mins
Sara Mohr-Pietsch hears from members of a new production of Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
19 Mar 2022,·44 mins