| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:15An interview with Lawrence Lucie, given before the swing guitarist's death in August 2009.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Part 2 of Mendelssohn's St Paul Oratorio.
| 01:00Jonathan's Swain's selection includes John Adams' Violin Concerto played by Chloë Hanslip.
| 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a Chopin Year anniversary concert from Warsaw.
| 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents a performance of Bach's Christmas Cantata.
| 01:00Presented by Jonathan Swain.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan presents great pieces, great performances and a few surprises.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music to discover, rediscover and lift the spirits.
| 07:00Rob Cowan shares his musical enthusiasms and dips into his rucksack for a surprise or two.
| 07:00Presented by Rob Cowan. Wake up to music, news and the occasional surprise.
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| 07:00Martin Handley presents great pieces, great performances and a few surprises.
| 07:00With Martin Handley. Including a Christmas Carol from the BBC Singers under Bob Chilcott.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library update: Monteverdi Vespers
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| 10:00 | 10:00James Jolly with music by Rossini, Mascagni, Glazunov, Strauss, Mendelssohn and Beethoven.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Pachelbel, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Albinoni, Orff and Brahms.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Widor, Escalada, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Myers.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Elgar, Mendelssohn, Hely-Hutchinson, Sibelius and Brahms.
| 10:00James Jolly presents music by Fucik, Kalliwoda, Allegri, Debussy, Mendelssohn and Strauss.
| | 10:00Suzy Klein explores music associated with all things nocturnal.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod begins his exploration of the MacDowell Colony.(R)
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod talks to Prof Dolores Pesce about Edward MacDowell's music.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod finds out what life was like for early residents of the MacDowell Colony.(R)
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores MacDowell's vision of an interaction between artistic disciplines.(R)
| 12:005/5Cheryl Young explains the links between sponsorship and an artistic residency programme.(R)
| 12:15Tom Service investigates music-making in Wales in the run-up to Christmas.
| 12:001/2Louise Fryer presents concerts from Austria, Finland, Norway and Great Britain.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Suzy Klein presents the Tokyo Quartet performing music by Schubert and Mozart.
| 13:001/4Piano recital by Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe. Bax: Moy Mell. Holst: The Planets.
| 13:002/4Michael Collins (clarinet) and Michael McHale (piano) in Bax, Finzi, Howells and Gregson.
| 13:003/4Tasmin Little (violin) and Piers Lane (piano) in Howard Ferguson, MacMillan and Elgar.
| 13:004/4Andrew Kennedy (tenor) in songs by Vaughan Williams. The Aronowitz Ensemble in Elgar.
| 13:009/9Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/5Penny Gore introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Wagner, Marx and Strauss.
| 14:002/5Penny Gore presents the BBC CO in an all-Tchaikovsky concert at the Mermaid, Blackfriars.
| 14:003/5BBC Singers under Robert Hollingworth perform at St George's Church, Campden Hill, London.
| 14:004/5BBC Philharmonic under Petri Sakari in a concert featuring Sibelius, Ibert and Ravel.
| 14:005/5BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Grant Llewellyn in a Russian-flavoured concert.
| 14:00Suzy Klein presents the Tokyo Quartet performing music by Schubert and Mozart.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran marks ten years of World Routes, with music from Mongolia, Peru and Turkey.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by Raymond Leppard, Elin Manahan Thomas and David Miller.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, the Razumovsky Ensemble.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a Christmas special featuring with guests and music.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty is joined by Roger Woodward, the Allegri Quartet and Anthony Payne.
| 17:00With mezzo Christine Rice, soprano Ailish Tynan and members of the Kuss String Quartet.
| 17:00Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests. 17:30Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts Verdi's tragic opera Don Carlo.
| 17:002/2A day of Christmas concerts concludes with music from Iceland, Czech Republic and Spain.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.
| 19:00Antonio Pappano conducts the LSO in music by Dukas, Rachmaninov, Part and Debussy.
| 19:00Rafal Blechacz (piano) performs music by Bach, Szymanowski, Debussy and Chopin.
| 19:00Robin Ticciati conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Webern, Mozart and Brahms.
| 19:001/2Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky and Dalbavie. 19:35Rober Chandler introduces the work of Russian writer Andrey Platonov. 19:552/2Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony.
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| 20:00 | | | | | | | 20:00Adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella about chess madness.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Philip Dodd explores the eternal use of chess as a measure of human intelligence.
| 21:15Presented by Matthew Sweet. With director Peter Weir on his new film The Way Back.
| 21:15Anne McElvoy discusses stammering, the subject of the new film The King's Speech.
| 21:15Philip Dodd chairs a debate at the Sage Gateshead asking Has God Gone Global?
| 21:15Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring novelist Leila Aboulela.
| | 21:30David Szalay examines chess as an artistic metaphor in literature and modern art.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod begins his exploration of the MacDowell Colony.(R)
| 22:002/5Donald Macleod talks to Prof Dolores Pesce about Edward MacDowell's music.(R)
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod finds out what life was like for early residents of the MacDowell Colony.(R)
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod explores MacDowell's vision of an interaction between artistic disciplines.(R)
| 22:005/5Cheryl Young explains the links between sponsorship and an artistic residency programme.(R)
| 22:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Alexander Goehr's new opera Promised End.
| 22:15Texts and music on the theme of monarchs. Readings by Samantha Bond and Simon Chandler.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum on why chess is the ultimate game. 23:15Jez Nelson presents a set by bandleader-composer Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society.
| 23:002/5Author Anuradha Roy on the power and poignancy of chess as a metaphor in Indian culture. 23:15Fiona Talkington introduces some seasonal sounds, and songs from Latvia and Romania.
| 23:003/5David Hendy discusses how chess was played and lost on the Third Programme. 23:15Fiona Talkington with music from Stile Antico, Leadbelly and Antti Paalanen.
| 23:004/5Marilyn Yalom on the rise to power of the chess queen which was once as feeble as a pawn. 23:15Fiona Talkington presents music from Ronsy, plus Lasse Marhaug and Nils Henrik Asheim.
| 23:004/5Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov explores the murderous history of chess in Russia. 23:15Lopa Kothari with a specially-recorded session by Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics.
| | 23:30Julian Joseph presents a Christmas special, including music from the BBC Big Band.
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