Schedule
Early
00:30
Through the Night—Three Bach Cantatas from Copenhagen
Concerto Copenhagen with conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen perform cantatas by JS Bach.
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Morning
06:30
Breakfast—Start your Sunday the Radio 3 way with Tom McKinney
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show.
09:00
Sunday Morning—An inspiring classical selection for Sunday
Sarah Walker chooses uplifting music to complement your morning.
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Afternoon
12:00
Private Passions—Harry Cliff
Michael Berkeley's guest is the physicist Harry Cliff.
13:30
Music Map—A journey to Vivaldi's Spring
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the sonic connections between music across time and space.
15:00
Choral Evensong—Exeter Cathedral
Live from Exeter Cathedral.(R)
16:00
Jazz Record Requests—Lush Life : Ella Fitzgerald, Awen Ensemble, Peter King, Sidney Bechet and Dinah Washington
Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you.
17:00
The Early Music Show—Music for Melancholy
Hannah French chooses music to balance the humours and transform the spirit.(R)
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Evening
18:00
Words and Music—Birdsong
Nightingales, robins, blackbirds in music, readings by Julia Winwood and Jonathan Keeble.
19:15
Sunday Feature—The Cello and the Nightingale
Kate Kennedy examines the events surrounding one of the BBC's first outside broadcasts.
20:00
Drama on 3—Maupassant’s Confessions of a Hedonist
A phantasmagorical journey through the most personal short stories of Guy de Maupassant.(R)
21:15
New Generation Artists—The Leonkoro Quartet play Schubert
Chamber works by Schubert and Beethoven performed by Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
22:00
Night Tracks—Soundtrack for night
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening.
23:30
Unclassified—Brass, bells and Whitsun wells
New experimental and ambient takes on brass band and Morris traditions for Whitsuntide.
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Late
00:30
Through the Night—Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No 2
Hina Maeda joins the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra with conductor Thomas Sanderling.
