| 00:00 | 00:30Jonathan Swain's selection includes John Adams's Violin Concerto with Chloe Hanslip.
| 00:30With Jonathan Swain. Christmas music for the Orthodox Church, the oratorio The Nativity.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Massenet's Christmas opera Le jongleur de Notre-Dame.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain introduces a performance of the Scarlatti Christmas cantata Cinque Profeti.
| 00:30Jonathan Swain presents Giovanni Ristori's Christmas-themed mass.
| | 00:00Alyn Shipton and guests select the best new releases of 2011.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Tchaikovsky's complete ballet Sleeping Beauty, from 2008's Proms.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Chopin, Beethoven and Waldteufel.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by J Strauss II, Bach and Sibelius.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Tallis, Barber and Paganini.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Dvorak, Chopin and Quilter.
| 06:30Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Rachmaninov, Mozart and Arnold.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents music by Adams, Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakov.
| 07:00Clemency Burton-Hill presents music to celebrate Christmas Day.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Rob Cowan presents a sequence of great music in classic recordings.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Liadov, Sibelius and Beethoven.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Liadov, Walton and Smetana.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Liadov, Verdi and Mendelssohn.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Liadov, Mozart and Dvorak.
| 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Building a Library: Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
| 09:00Rob Cowan presents music by Bach, Schumann, Mozart and Dvorak.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod presents music from the early part of Handel's career in Italy.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod focuses on three operas from key moments in Handel's career.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod focuses on three of the most important singers in Handel's career.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod introduces music by Handel written for various British monarchs.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores the collaborations between Handel and librettist Charles Jennens.
| 12:15Richard Coles on the influence that the Authorised Version of the Bible has had on music.(R)
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) plays music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Boulanger and Piazzolla.
| 13:009/12Recital by Nicolas Angelich. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 2 in A, Op 2; Sonata No 16 in G.
| 13:0010/12Elisabeth Leonskaja in Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: No 8; No 9 in E; No 31 in A flat.
| 13:0011/12Elisabeth Leonskaja performs Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: No 20 in G; No 30 in E; No 32.
| 13:0012/12Barry Douglas in Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: No 25 in G, Op 79; No 29 in B flat, Op 106.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores baroque Christmas music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
| 13:00Catherine Bott introduces an anthology of early music telling the Christmas story.
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4Louise Fryer with music from 2011's festivals, by Brahms, Handel, Strauss and Schubert.
| 14:002/4Louise Fryer with music from 2011's festivals, by J Strauss II, Handel, Ravel, Stravinsky.
| 14:003/4Music from 2011's continental festivals, by Bruckner and Mozart.
| 14:00Louise Fryer presents a period instrument performance of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
| 14:004/4Louise Fryer with music from 2011's festivals, by Handel, Mozart, Frescobaldi, Zemlinsky.
| 14:00Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) plays music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Boulanger and Piazzolla.
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Portsmouth Cathedral.
| | | 15:00John Wilson selects music by Dmitri Tiomkin, John Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Danny Elfman.
| 15:40A family Prom from 2011, in association with the CBBC TV series Horrible Histories.(R)
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| 16:00 | | | 16:30Words and music on the theme of power, with readings by Sheila Hancock and Tom Hollander.(R)
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sequence of poetry, prose and music exploring some of life's turning points.(R)
| 17:00Andrew Buchan and Josette Simon read poetry and prose about crime, police and the courts.(R)
| | 17:00Texts and music on the theme of money. Readings by Sylvestra Le Touzel and Dan Stevens.(R)
| 17:00Celebrating the many facets of joy, with readings by Jane Horrocks and Rory Kinnear.(R)
| 17:00Yves Abel conducts Donizetti's La fille du regiment at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
| 17:30Aled Jones introduces a selection of seasonal choral favourites from around the world.
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| 18:00 | 18:15Music from Khatia Buniatishvili, Ruby Hughes, the Signum Quartet and Nicolas Alstaedt.
| 18:15Music from the ATOS Trio, Clara Mouriz (mezzo) and Christian Ihle Hadland (piano).
| 18:00Music from Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), the Escher Quartet and Tom Arthurs (trumpet).
| 18:15Music from Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo).
| 18:15Featuring Christian Ihle Hadland, Jennifer Johnston, Khatia Buniatishvili and Igor Levit.
| | 18:30Texts and music on the theme of bells. Reading by Sylvestra le Touzel and David Troughton.
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2From St John's, Smith Square, Petroc Trelawny presents Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
| 19:30The Skampa Quartet and Stephen Hough perform music by Janacek, Smetana and Dvorak.
| 19:30The Tallis Scholars perform music for the Nativity by Palestrina and Praetorius.
| 19:301/2The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge in Parts 1 and 2 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
| 19:301/2Katie Derham presents of Part 1 of Handel's Messiah, from St John's, Smith Square, London.
| | 19:45Frances Byrnes explores the Dance Plague of 1518, and dance mania throughout history.
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| 20:00 | 20:10Stephen Johnson explores Britten's work for children's chorus, his cantata Saint Nicolas. 20:302/2Stephen Layton conducts a peformance of Britten's St Nicolas, with tenor Alan Clayton.
| | | 20:30Helen Bond analyses the Scriptures and the Apocrypha to discover Christ's missing years. 20:502/2The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge in Parts 3 and 6 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
| 20:20The Rev Lucy Winkett explores traditional images of angels. 20:402/2Katie Derham presents Part 2 of Handel's Messiah, conducted by Stephen Layton.
| 20:15Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 20:30Adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella about chess madness.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | | | | 21:15Amit Chaudhuri on how music has a common root in both Eastern and Western traditions.(R) 21:45Music by David Sawer, Michael Finnissy, Juste Janulyte and Roger Smalley.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Matthew Sweet examines the major artistic endeavours shaping the 21st century. 22:451/5Tessa Hadley on how Dickens paints the reality of his world through characters' houses.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy on the scientific breakthroughs anticipated to shape the 21st century. 22:452/5Romesh Gunesekera on how Dickens addresses the move from childhood into the world beyond.
| 22:00Is greed good? Philip Dodd and guests discuss. 22:453/5AL Kennedy explores Dickens' literary response to the themes of poverty, misery and death.
| 22:00Anne McElvoy considers how population growth is shaping the 21st century. 22:454/5Writer Alexander McCall Smith salutes Charles Dickens's mastery of the episodic form.
| 22:455/5Justin Cartwright reflects on the place that Christmas occupies in Charles Dickens's work.
| 22:304/4With music by Michael Parsons, James Saunders, Christian Wolff and Arvo Part.
| 22:00Moshe Morad with recordings made at the 2011 Jerusalem International Oud Festival.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2011 GIO Festival in Glasgow.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music from Messiaen and Dunajska Kapelye, plus Balinese gamelan.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents music by Poulenc and Leila plus tradition sounds from Tahiti.
| 23:00Fiona Talkington presents a session featuring Synnove S Bjorset and Hari Sivanesan.
| 23:00Mary Ann Kennedy presents music from around the world and music from WOMAD 2011.
| | 23:00Julian Joseph pays tribute to the late pianist and composer Michael Garrick.
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