Schedule
Early
00:00
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz—Henry Red Allen
Geoffrey Smith salutes the distinctive trumpeter Henry Red Allen.
01:00
Through the Night—Kristian Bezuidenhout in Mozart and Haydn
Jonathan Swain presents Kristian Bezuidenhout in a fortepiano recital of Mozart and Haydn.
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Morning
07:00
Breakfast—Sunday - Martin Handley
Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
09:00
Sunday Morning—Rob Cowan
Rob Cowan introduces music by George Alexander McFarren, Schubert and Bartok.
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Afternoon
12:00
Private Passions—Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Michael Berkeley's guest is historian and author of The Origins of Sex Faramerz Dabhoiwala
13:00
BBC Proms—2015, Proms Chamber Music, Proms Chamber Music 3: Webern, Colin Matthews and Beethoven
The Apollon Musagete Quartet performs music by Beethoven, Webern and Colin Matthews.(R)
14:00
New Generation Artists—Leonard Elschenbroich
Haydn's Cello Concerto in D, featuring soloist Leonard Elschenbroich.
14:30
Choral Evensong—Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral
From the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral.(R)
15:30
BBC Proms—2015, Prom 32, Prom 32 (part 1): Eric Whitacre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1/2Eric Whitacre conducts the Royal Philharmonic in Jonathan Newman, Whitacre and Gershwin.
16:20
BBC Proms—2015, Proms Interval, Puck, by Edith Pearlman
Edith Pearlman's short story Puck, describing amusing escapades in a Boston antique shop.
16:40
BBC Proms—2015, Prom 32, Prom 32 (part 2): Eric Whitacre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2/2Eric Whitacre conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Copland and Whitacre's own work
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Evening
18:00
Words and Music—The Metaphysicals
Works by some of the metaphysical poets. Readers: Greta Scacchi and Christopher Eccleston.
19:15
Sunday Feature—Eric Ravilious: Chalk and Ice
Alexandra Harris explores the life and work of the elusive artist Eric Ravilious.(R)
20:00
BBC Proms—2015, Prom 33, Prom 33 (part 1): John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
1/2Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner in Beethoven's Symphony No 5.
20:35
BBC Proms—2015, Proms Extra, DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
Novelists Helen Dunmore and Louise Welsh discuss DH Lawrence's 1915 novel The Rainbow.
20:55
BBC Proms—2015, Prom 33, Prom 33 (part 2): John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
2/2The Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique performs Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
22:15
Drama on 3—Faust, Episode 2
2/2Samuel West and Toby Jones in Part 2 of Goethe's epic reflection on the human predicament.(R)
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Janacek - Glagolitic Mass and Vecne Evangelium
John Shea presents the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra performing works by Janacek.
