| 00:00 | 00:00Alix from Radio 1's Unexpected Fluids tries Clemmie's classical playlist. 00:30Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra play Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. Catriona Young presents.
| 00:30Frank Martin's medieval Christmas Oratorio. Presented by Catriona Young.
| 00:30Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra performs Britten, Lin Zhao, Xiaogang Ye and Stravinsky.
| 00:30Music by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre at Barcelona's Lights of Early Music Festival.
| 00:30City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Catriona Young presents.
| | 00:00Corey Mwamba presents Adam Fairhall performing on a prepared dulcitone.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Leopold Mozart's Symphony in G and Missa Solemnis at Tage Alter Musik festival in Germany.
| 01:00Chamber music from the festival held in the Swiss mountains. Jonathan Swain presents.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Petroc Trelawny with Breakfast, including our Advent Calendar.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Breakfast, with our Advent Calendar
| 06:30Christmas Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents a Boxing Day edition of Radio 3's classical Breakfast show.
| 06:30Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, including the Friday poem.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Classical music for breakfast time.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Breakfast including a Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.
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| 09:00 | 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Refresh your Christmas Morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music.
| 09:00The must-have recording of Dichterliebe and a star-studded Bruckner symphony cycle
| 09:00Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:45A special edition exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on music.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Corelli's international successes.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod delves into Corelli’s relationships with the nobility and royalty.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores Corelli's relationship with the Church.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod explores Corelli and his contemporaries.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod delves into the Corelli craze.
| 12:30A special edition with BBC Ten Pieces.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is Darcey Bussell. Music by Bach, Mozart, Faure and Stravinsky.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Violinist Tobias Ringborg performs sonatas by Grieg and Stenhammar at the RCS in Glasgow.
| 13:00Vertavo Quartet perform Grieg and Smetana as part of the Grieg celebrations at the RCS.
| 13:00Sean visits Lang Lang in Amsterdam to discover his life on the road.
| 13:00Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland presents Grieg's best-known works from the RCS.
| 13:00Norway's Christian Ihle Hadland and Ann-Helen Moen perform songs by Grieg and Sibelius.
| 13:00Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
| 13:00Pianist François-Fréderic Guy in Brahms and Debussy at London's Wigmore Hall.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Music by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Nielsen and Christian Lindberg from Madrid.
| 14:00Festive music by Humperdinck, Delius, Arnold, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Alfven and Esenvalds.
| 14:00Christmas carols and readings from the candlelit chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:00A tale of eternal friendship turns to conflict in love. From the Royal Opera House.
| 14:00With music by Mozart, Schubert and Richard Strauss.
| | 14:00Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of early music associated with the city of Vienna.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.
| 15:00An archive recording from Westminster Abbey, London, first broadcast on 27 December 2000.
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| 16:00 | 16:30Music by Telemann, Merula, Bach and Vivaldi from Cologne and Stockholm.
| 16:301/3Horatio Clare's immersive Slow Radio Sound Walk along Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail.
| 16:002/3Day two of Horatio Clare's immersive Sound Walk along Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail.
| 16:003/3Day three of Horatio Clare's immersive Sound Walk along Greenland's Arctic Circle Trail.
| 16:30It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. Why is there so much cheesy yuletide music?
| 16:00Highlights from WOMAD 2019 with Lopa Kothari
| 16:00Alyn Shipton presents listeners' favourite jazz records from 2019.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Schubert's bleak winter journey sung by Ashley Riches with Joseph Middleton.
| 17:45Performances by Aleksey Semenenko, Thibaut Garcia and Misha Mullov-Abbado.
| 17:15Anastasia Kobekina and Elisabeth Brauss play Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata.
| 17:15Katharina Konradi sings Rachmaninov and the Aris Quartet plays Mendelssohn.
| 17:00Songs by Donald Swann, Cole Porter and Clara Schumann and Franck's Violin Sonata
| 17:00Euroradio Jazz Orchestra in concert, Danilo Pérez's inspirations and 2019 highlights.
| 17:00Tom Service celebrates The Joy of Bach. 17:30Taking inspiration from toasts, parties, hangovers and prohibition.
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| 18:00 | 18:15Hayley Atwell and Simon Callow read texts and poems related to the number seven.
| 18:15A sequence of poetry, prose and music, with readings by Ewan Bailey and Clare Perkins.
| 18:15Texts and music on the theme of swans, with readers Anthony Calf and Louise Jameson.
| 18:15A sonic painting inspired by the late 19th-century artistic revolutionaries.
| 18:15Anne-Marie Duff and Greg Wise read poetry and prose on the theme of the sun.
| 18:30Britten's Death in Venice from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 18:45We follow the zebra that escaped from London Zoo into the city during an air raid.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Author Neil Gaiman reads from his best-selling books, with music from the BBC SO & guests.
| 19:30The Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and Emanuel Ax at the 2019 BBC Proms.
| 19:30From the 2019 BBC Proms, John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort in Bach's Orchestral Suites
| 19:30From the Royal Albert Hall with the John Wilson Orchestra and Maida Vale Singers.
| 19:30Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic at the 2019 BBC Proms.
| | 19:15Glitter and Villainy: Camp performance and dressing to kill. 19:30Live BBC Proms. Vienna Philharmonic, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and violinist Leonidas Kavakos.(R)
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| 21:00 | | | 21:453/5AL Kennedy chooses Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
| | 21:455/5Historical author Philippa Gregory writes a new end for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
| 21:50Not poetry, not conversation, not a story - but all of them at once.
| 21:45The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform the final version of Sibelius's Symphony No 5.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Ian Rankin chooses William Golding's Lord of the Flies. 22:15Another chance to hear Angélique Kidjo's performance at the 2019 BBC Proms.
| 22:002/5Man Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo chooses Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. 22:15Super-chilled heavenly radiance to calm the mind and nourish the soul.
| 22:00From the 2019 BBC Proms, the BBC Singers and Nu Civilisation Orchestra with Peter Edwards.
| 22:004/5Elif Shafak chooses Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. 22:15Late night Prom - The Experimental session
| 22:00From the 2019 BBC Proms, the Proms Youth Ensemble, BBC NOW and conductor Hugh Brunt.
| 22:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts a specially curated Open Ear concert of cutting-edge new music.
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| 23:00 | 23:45An immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:45An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:45An immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:45Elizabeth Alker with Floating Points.
| 23:45Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys the defining moments in adventurous music over the decade.
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