BBC R3 Hannah French presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-05-30 Tom Service introduces the best classical music and the latest stories from the arts world. 2026-05-30 Jools is joined by actor and music lover Martin Freeman. 2026-05-30 It's the year 1564. A Scottish envoy has an unexpected musical encounter with Elizabeth I. 2026-05-30 Andrew McGregor is joined by Jessica Duchen to review the best new classical releases, and Jeremy Sams picks his favourite recording of Schubert's String Quartet in G major D.887. 2026-05-30 A weekly selection of movie music with Edith Bowman- composer Simon Franglen features Vangelis in Harmonising Hollywood, and Julian Lloyd Webber reveals his Pick of the Flicks. 2026-05-30 Jess Gillam swaps music choices with percussionist and composer Beibei Wang. 2026-05-30 Gabriela Lena Frank's portrait of Mexico's volatile power couple. Isabel Leonard is a blazing Frida Kahlo, Carlos Àlvarez her Diego Rivera, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. 2026-05-30 Kathryn Tickell presents an extract from Nidia Góngora's set at the Barbican and picks music from Benin, Slovakia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2026-05-30 Kate Molleson introduces a performance by the vocalist Elaine Mitchener performing live at London's Wigmore Hall earlier this year. 2026-05-30 The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Pekka Kuusisto perform Mazzoli's Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). Jonathan Biss joins the ensemble in Beethoven's second piano concerto. 2026-05-30 Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-05-31 Sarah Walker with glorious choral gems, sweeping orchestral sounds, and a celebration of chamber music venue the Wigmore Hall at 125. 2026-05-31 Michael Berkeley's guest is the nature writer and former sports journalist Simon Barnes. 2026-05-31 Sara Mohr-Pietsch is our guide on a musical journey towards the ballet suite Callirhoë by the French composer Cécile Chaminade. 2026-05-31 In the first of three programmes about the natural world, Mark Radcliffe plays music inspired by birds. With works from Respighi, Vivaldi , Elgar, Sam Lee and The Unthanks. 2026-05-31 Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you. Get In Touch via jrr@bbc.co.uk or use #jazzrecordrequests on social. 2026-05-31 Hannah French traces the life and career of the Elizabethan composer and organist Thomas Weelkes, who was born 450 years ago this year. 2026-05-31 Live from St Davids Cathedral, with music by Tomkins and Tallis. 2026-05-31 Composer Jennifer Walshe explores the philosophical and aesthetic questions that AI raises for how we make, listen to and think about music. 2026-05-31 Words about Marilyn Monroe, Helen of Troy and a host of other beauties both real and imagined by Sappho, Austen, Oscar Wilde. And music to match from Tchaikovsky, Bach, Judith Weir. 2026-05-31 9/12. Erland Cooper finds calm in the stillness with a selection of pieces inspired by solitude while harpist Mary Lattimore shares her safe haven. 2026-05-31 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-05-31 Elizabeth Alker shares a selection of music from genre-defying artists, with reimagined silent film scores, allotment recordings and Icelandic metal pipes. 2026-05-31 A concert from Cologne by the WDR Symphony Orchestra featuring the 'Babylon Suite'. Schumann's Second Symphony follows, a work in which fiery verve merges with whispering elegance. 2026-05-31