| 00:00 | 00:30Catriona Young presents a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers given in Warsaw.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents an all-Brahms concert from the 2014 Proms.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents Proms performances of Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 1 and 2.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents BBC Proms performances of Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 3 and 4.
| 00:30Catriona Young presents Proms performances of Sibelius's Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7.
| | 00:00Geoffrey Smith presents swinging nods to the Bard, including Cleo Laine and Duke Ellington
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Catriona Young presents a concert from Poland's Wratislavia Cantans International Festival
| 01:001/2Jonathan Swain presents music inspired by Shakespeare performed in Barcelona.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, with listener requests.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, live from Stratford-upon-Avon.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, live from Stratford-upon-Avon.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Including Artist of the Week: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, featured in Beethoven's Symphony No 5.
| 09:00Includes Bach's Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
| 09:00With Artist of the Week: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, featured conducting Haydn's Symphony No 8.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, featured conducting Dvorak's Piano Concerto.
| 09:00Artist of the Week: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, featured conducting Brahms's Symphony No 2.
| 09:00Including Building a Library: Verdi's Falstaff. Plus recordings of Shakespeare's verse.
| 09:00James Jolly plays music connected with Shakespeare from Nicolai to Woyrsch.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:00Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith with readings and music on the power of royalty.
| 11:00Pianist Ashley Wass plays Shakespeare-related music by Prokofiev, Smetana and Beethoven.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Byrd trod a risky path between his personal convictions and the law. With Donald Macleod.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod charts Byrd's rise from boy chorister to music chief at Lincoln Cathedral.
| 12:003/5Byrd risks his livelihood as he ventures into music publishing. With Donald Macleod.
| 12:004/5Byrd’s catholic faith meant he had to choose his allies carefully. With Donald Macleod.
| 12:005/5Byrd attends Elizabeth I’s funeral and looks to his own legacy. With Donald Macleod.
| 12:00Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from BBC archives. 12:45Richard Sisson with music from every single Shakespeare play live from Stratford-upon-Avon
| 12:00Scholar Jonathan Bate discusses his passion for music inspired by Shakespeare.
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| 13:00 | 13:00The Hagen Quartet plays Schubert's String Quartet in G, D887, at Wigmore Hall in London.
| 13:001/4Music by Schubert, Shostakovich and Schumann performed at BBC Proms Australia 2016.
| 13:002/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Liszt, Chopin, Barber, Beethoven, Sulek and Pryor.
| 13:003/4Music by Barber, Vasks, Medaglia, Widmann and Wagenseil from BBC Proms Australia 2016.
| 13:004/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Elizabeth Younan and Shostakovich.
| | 13:00Student actors from the Shakespeare Institute with prose and poetry on the theme of youth
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| 14:00 | 14:001/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Nigel Westlake, Saint-Saens and Berlioz.
| 14:002/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Ginastera, Gershwin, Bernstein, Grainger and Brett Dean
| 14:003/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Beethoven, Elgar and Henry Wood. Plus a work by Bridge.
| 14:00Katie Derham presents a performance of Verdi's opera Falstaff.
| 14:004/4From BBC Proms Australia, music by Dvorak, Grainger, Parry, Britten, Sculthorpe and Elgar.
| 14:00News from the weekend's events in Stratford-upon-Avon, with Suzy Klein and guests. 14:15Soprano Ruby Hughes and lutenist Jon Nordberg perform music from the time of Shakespeare.
| 14:00The choir Ex Cathedra with a special concert of madrigals from Shakespeare's lifetime.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
| | | 15:00Matthew Sweet joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for film music inspired by Shakespeare.
| 15:00From Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Suzy Klein presents, with live performances from Francesca Dego and Javier Perianes.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include pianist Paul Badura-Skoda and author Joanne Harris.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include conductor Dennis Russell Davies and actor Simon Callow.
| 16:30Suzy Klein's guests include crime novelist Donna Leon and the Guards Brass Group.
| 16:30Sean Rafferty launches Radio 3's Sounds of Shakespeare weekend from Stratford-upon-Avon.
| 16:00Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests and surprise guests.
| 16:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with choral music and conversation, live from Stratford-upon-Avon.
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| 17:00 | | | | | | 17:00Music and Shakespearean texts on jealousy. Readers: Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith. 17:40The BBC Singers give a live performance of Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music.
| 17:30Poems, songs, readings and music celebrating Shakespeare's legacy in theatre and acting.
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| 18:00 | 18:001/5Byrd trod a risky path between his personal convictions and the law. With Donald Macleod.(R)
| 18:302/5Donald Macleod charts Byrd's rise from boy chorister to music chief at Lincoln Cathedral.(R)
| 18:303/5Byrd risks his livelihood as he ventures into music publishing. With Donald Macleod.(R)
| 18:304/5Byrd’s catholic faith meant he had to choose his allies carefully. With Donald Macleod.(R)
| 18:30Tom Service on the chemistry between Shakespeare's language and the music it has created.
| 18:00Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of Verdi's Otello.
| 18:45How Shakespeare's First Folio helped make a national poet and an international star.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonic in Janacek's opera Jenufa.
| 19:30The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Ginastera, Bernstein and Stravinsky.
| 19:30London Philharmonic under Vladimir Jurowski in Dukas, Saint-Saens, Honegger and Debussy.
| 19:30Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Sean Rafferty presents a concert celebrating Irish culture
| 19:30Shakespeare-inspired music. Arne: The Garrick Ode and Sally Beamish: A Shakespeare Masque.
| | 19:30Ian Skelly presents music with a Shakespearean theme, by Mendelssohn and Prokofiev.
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| 21:00 | | | | | 21:451/5Short contemporary drama in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 29. With Maxine Peake.
| 21:303/5Short contemporary drama in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. With Maxine Peake. 21:454/5Lee Mattinson's drama in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 140, with music by Chiu-Yu Chou.
| 21:00Robert Lindsay and Oliver Chris star in a dramatic re-imagining of Shakespeare's last day.
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| 22:00 | 22:00Tom Service talks to guitarist John Williams and reviews a memoir of Sviatoslav Richter.(R) 22:451/5Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.(R)
| 22:00Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker. 22:452/5Tom Shakespeare on painter Bryan Pearce, born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria.(R)
| 22:00Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers Philip Dodd his solution to the migrant crisis. 22:453/5Tom Shakespeare discusses sculptor Arturo Bispo do Rosario, who had schizophrenia.(R)
| 22:00Anne McElvoy discusses Sicily. Plus 175 years of the London Library, with Tom Stoppard. 22:455/5Tom Shakespeare celebrates painter Lucy Jones, who was born with cerebral palsy.(R)
| 22:00Live from Stratford, Ian McMillan with a Shakespearean edition of the cabaret of the word. 22:452/5Francesca Martinez's drama in response to Shakespeare's Sonnet 61. Music by Nina Whiteman.
| 22:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Tom Service introduce 21st-century responses to Shakespeare's work.
| 22:30Claire Lefilliatre and Vincent Dumestre perform a programme of songs and guitar pieces.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Soweto Kinch presents the Ralph Alessi Quartet in concert at the Pizza Express Jazz Club.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe presents varied music, with saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings in the studio.
| 23:00Adventures in music, ancient to future: Nick Luscombe explores music and architecture.
| 23:00Nick Luscombe pays tribute to Prince and features a Late Junction Mixtape from Jonny Trunk
| 23:00Verity Sharp celebrates Shakespeare with English folk music inspired by the Bard.
| | 23:305/5Drama about a solicitor who becomes embroiled in someone else's love life. 23:45Shakespeare-inspired music by Gerald Finzi.
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