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Mark Forrest presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email [email protected].

Join Sarah Walker for a Sunday mix inspired by summer and folk traditions, with Renaissance choral music, new discoveries and a symphonic gem from Vasily Kalinnikov.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, famous for her global hit Tom's Diner.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a musical course to Bizet's Carmen Suite No. 1.

Conductor Sofi Jeannin explores the fascination for composers of children's voices in music as they evolve from expressing innocence and good to a broader palette.

Alyn Shipton features music from saxophonists Binker Golding and Sonny Rollins, and we remember the late clarinettist Chris Walker.

Hannah French presents a concert given by the young French vocal ensemble Contre le Temps at the National Centre for Early Music as part of the 2026 York Early Music Festival.

Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival, with music by Hurd, Gavin Higgins, Wesley and Bliss.

Haydn's 'Frog' Quartet from the Kleio Quartet and Alec Templeton's Pocket Sonata from virtuoso clarinettist Oleg Shebeta-Dragan.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBCSO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, plus Scriabin's Symphony No.2 and Dani Howards's Signal.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.

Elizabeth Alker picks new releases from the world of ambient music. And celebrated writer Helen Mort shares a piece of music that transports her elsewhere.