| 00:00 | 00:00Jules Buckley mixes a classical playlist for DJ and curator Jamz Supernova. 00:30Strauss and Beethoven from Collegiate Church of St Vincent, Cardona. With Jonathan Swain.
| 00:30RIAS Chamber Chorus and Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin in concert. With Jonathan Swain.
| 00:30Music by Ravel, Boccherini, Elgar and a premiere by Srdan Dedic. Jonathan Swain presents.
| 00:30Brass Consort Koln in Christmas music from Italy, Norway and Russia. With Jonathan Swain
| 00:30WDR Radio Orchestra and soloists celebrate the Advent season. Presented by Jonathan Swain.
| | 00:00Corey and Adam Moses from jazz re:freshed share tracks with each other.
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| 01:00 | | | | | | 01:00Camerata Variabile Basel at the 2018 Schaffhausen Bach Festival. With Jonathan Swain.
| 01:00Russian music from Vladimir Jurowski and pianist Alexander Ghindin. With Jonathan Swain.
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| 06:00 | 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny featuring a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot.
| 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, featuring a Bach cantata in our Bach Before 7 slot.
| 06:30Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny featuring a Bach cantata in our regular Bach Before 7 slot.
| 06:30A special Christmas Eve edition of the Radio 3 Breakfast show, with listener requests.
| 06:30A Christmas Day special, with Paul Guinery at the piano and featuring listener requests.
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| 07:00 | | | | | | 07:00Classical music for breakfast time, plus found sounds and the odd unclassified track.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents Breakfast with Sounds of the Earth and seasonal music.
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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 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.
| 09:00Nicholas Kenyon chooses his favourite recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
| 09:00Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | 11:45Karin Lehmkuhl Bodony records the sounds of the northern lights in the Alaskan sky.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod explores Bach’s early career as an organist.
| 12:002/5Donald Macleod explores Bach’s role as an employee of the court in Weimar.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod delves into JS Bach’s business dealings.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod imagines taking lessons alongside the great JS Bach.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod explores Bach’s journey as a composer in Weimar.
| 12:30Jess Gillam swaps tracks with trumpeter Simon Höfele.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley’s guest is king of boogie-woogie Jools Holland.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Alasdair Beatson play Debussy, Part and Franck.
| 13:00From LSO St Luke's, string quartets by Mozart and Mendelssohn, played by Chiaroscuro
| 13:00Alina Ibragimova plays works for solo violin by Bach and Bartok at LSO St Luke's, London.
| 13:05From LSO St Luke's, Beethoven's String Quartet, Op 18 No 6, and Mozart's Clarinet Quintet.
| 13:05Christmas carols and readings from the chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
| 13:00Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.
| 13:00Live from Wigmore Hall, London, a recital by Jack Liebeck and Katya Apekisheva.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Music for Advent and winter from the BBC Singers and the BBC SO with Alexander Vedernikov
| 14:00Christmas music from the BBC Singers, plus BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom highlights.
| 14:00Professor Brian Cox and the BBC Symphony Orchestra carry us across the universe.
| 14:05BBC SO and Singers perform Berlioz's The Childhood of Christ and Finzi's Dies Natalis.
| | | 14:00Hannah French and wine historian Ron Merlino explore connections between Lassus and wine.
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| 15:00 | | | 15:30From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London.
| | 15:00Horatio Clare chases the sunrise along the Pilgrim’s Path to Holy Island.
| 15:00Horatio Clare welcomes a Lincolnshire dawn across The Wash.
| 15:00From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of London.(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:30Netherlands Bach Society perform cantatas by a composer Bach loved, Dietrich Buxtehude.
| | 16:30Highlights from last June's live Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at Wigmore Hall.
| | 16:00Mahan Esfahani seeks help from Dame Sarah Connolly for his problem with Handel.
| 16:00Matthew Sweet on film music
| 16:00Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests for records of the year.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Radio 3 New Generation Artists' Winter Series - Mozart, Schumann and Schubert.
| 17:00Chopin from Alexander Gajjiev, and Brahms from the Aris Quartet and mezzo Ema Nikolovska.
| | 17:00Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo.
| 17:00Cellist Anastasia Kobekina plays Rachmaninov.
| 17:00The best roots-based music from across the world with Kathryn Tickell.
| 17:00Tom Service laments and consoles with some of the great 'what ifs' of music history. 17:30Jade Anouka and Lorde’s children read Lorde's work, from her poems to her cancer diaries.
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| 18:00 | 18:15Stephen Mangan & Helen Monks explore attitudes to reading in prose & poetry set to music.
| 18:15Noma Dumezweni reads from Dorothy's journals - Roger Ringrose reads her brother's poems.
| 18:15Novels, letters and journals read by Fiona Shaw, Ellie Kendrick and Philip Bretherton.
| 18:15Stanley Townsend and Kathy Keira Clarke read from James Joyce's Ulysses and other works.
| 18:15Sam West reads the letters of Charles Dickens, marking the 150th anniversary of his death
| 18:00Live music from singer Elina Duni and guitarist Rob Luft and a guest mix from Jasper Høiby
| 18:45Stories of real-life chance encounters mark the anniversary of the film Brief Encounter.
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| 19:00 | 19:30Another chance to hear the first live Prom of the 2020 season.
| 19:30Another chance to hear Stephen Hough, Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC SSO at the 2020 Proms.
| 19:30Another chance to hear Paavo Jarvi conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
| 19:30Trevor Pinnock conducts The English Concert and Choir in Handel’s Messiah.
| 19:30Jonathan Cohen directs the OAE in music by Handel, Vivaldi, Bach and Avison.
| 19:30Highlights from operas by Rossini, Puccini, Mozart, Humperdinck and other seasonal music.
| 19:15Dr Kylie Murray explains her fascination for annotation. 19:30The tumultuous story of Rodgers before Hammerstein, starring Jamie Parker.
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| 21:00 | 21:00Another chance to hear Jonathan Scott's organ recital at the 2020 BBC Proms.
| 21:00Another chance to hear Anoushka Shankar and Gold Panda perform The Sitar and the Hang.
| 21:00Contemporary chamber ensemble the London Sinfonietta returns to the Royal Albert Hall
| | 21:10The BBC Singers perform Hymn, with music by George Fenton and narration by Alan Bennett.
| | 21:00Hannah French presents a special show featuring more from the team's top 2020 recordings.
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| 22:00 | 22:301/5The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
| 22:302/5The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
| 22:303/5The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
| 22:304/5The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
| 22:305/5The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
| 22:00Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.
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| 23:00 | 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
| 23:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a magical sonic journey for late-night listening. 23:30Elizabeth Alker with serene, soothing, seasonal and strange sounds for Christmas.
| 23:00It’s Christmas night. Poet Saul Williams joins Verity Sharp for a fireside adventure.
| | 23:30A sonic journey into signal fires as a warning system and emblem of hope.
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