BBC R3 Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-10-18 Sarah Walker with a sparkling playlist for your Sunday morning, with classical music from across the globe. 2026-10-18 Michael Berkeley's guest is the best-selling writer and President of the Royal Society of Literature, Elif Shafak. 2026-10-18 Sara Mohr-Pietsch embarks on a musical journey towards the second movement of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major - one of the composer's final works before he died. 2026-10-18 Clive Myrie is talking with people of colour about their experiences of being classical musicians. What are some of the difficulties they have faced due to their skin colour. 2026-10-18 Alyn Shipton celebrates Black History Month featuring music from Courtney Pine, Ken Snakehips Johnson and his West Indian Band, Joe Harriot, Cassandra Wilson and more. 2026-10-18 Hannah French explores the life and music of JS Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, whose success as a composer and organist was overshadowed by his 'wayward personality'. 2026-10-18 A service from Salisbury Cathedral, with music by Harris, Shephard, Parry and Alcock. 2026-10-18 Irish composer Hannah Peel sets out to find what drove Dubliner Tom Munnelly to spend four decades gathering Ireland's largest collection of English-language songs. 2026-10-18 Featuring musical fathers and daughters Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Avril, Clara Schumann and Friederich Wieck, and Ravi Shankar, Anoushka and Norah Jones, alongside poems and prose. 2026-10-18 Hannah drops into McQueen's repair workshop, meeting the experts bringing damaged instruments back to life. 2026-10-18 Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-10-18 Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today's most exciting genre-defying artists. 2026-10-18 The entire Hallé family of orchestra and choirs present James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler's life-affirming Fifth Symphony. 2026-10-18 Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. 2026-10-19 Georgia Mann plays the best classical music for your morning, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. 2026-10-19 Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including a live concert from the NOVO Quartet at Wigmore Hall in London. 2026-10-19 1/5. Kate Molleson follows young Verdi, whose ambitions soon outgrow his surroundings. 2026-10-19 Live music from bass-baritone Marcus Coleridge and pianist Henry Smith. Actor, director and playwright Steven Berkoff on his new memoir. 2026-10-19 A beautiful soundscape of classical music including Delius's Cuckoo in Spring and Luise Adolpha Le Beau's piano concerto. 2026-10-19 Piano music by Robert and Clara Schumann and Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, plus a sonata by Shostakovich, played by the recent Radio 3 New Generation Artist Giorgi Gigashvili. 2026-10-19 John Foxx takes us through the history of the five pianos which have shaped his music. As the lead singer of Ultravox, and a solo artist, pianos have been his life-long obsession. 2026-10-19 Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. 2026-10-19 This week Soweto's guest is internationally celebrated American saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins. From Monday to Thursday, he shares some of the jazz albums that inspire him for 4/4. 2026-10-19