| 00:00 | 00:002/2Lucie Skeaping with highlights from a concert of Chinese music XVII-21 le Baroque Nomade.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Including music by Sibelius, Brahms, Vivaldi, Faure, Lindberg, G Berg and Respighi.
| 01:00Including music by Beethoven, Defoort, Dvorak, Schumann, Bach, Haydn and Scarlatti.
| 01:00Including music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
| 01:00Including music by Rossini, Schumann, Penderecki, Telemann, Szymanowski, Puccini and Bach.
| 01:00John Shea introduces music, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Enescu, Praetorius.
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| 01:00Including music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bizet, Respighi, Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.
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| 07:00 | 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including music by Weber, Bach, Handel, Stravinsky, Liszt and Donizetti.
| 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including music by Handel, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Muffat and Francaix.
| 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including music by Gluck, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rameau, Canteloube and Schubert
| 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including music by Dvorak, Charpentier, Schubert, Massenet and Saint-Saens
| 07:00With Rob Cowan. Including music by Niles, Glazunov, Beethoven, Rameau and Finzi.
| 07:00Martin Handley introduces music by Bach, Chausson, Mondonville and Arnold.
| 07:00Martin Handley introduces music by Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Dukas, Haydn and Paganini.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Including Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A flat, Op 110; and Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1
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| 10:00 | 10:00Including music by Vaughan Williams, Rameau, Markevitch, Haydn and Brahms.
| 10:00Including music by Nielsen, Musgrave, Haydn, Schubert, Mozart, Strauss and Beethoven.
| 10:00Including music by Sibelius, Purcell, Weir, Stanford, Bach and Barber.
| 10:00Including music by Britten, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, List, Tippett, Bruckner.
| 10:00Including music by Liszt, Messiaen, Khachaturian, Dvorak and Jongen.
| | 10:00Iain looks at contraptions composers have invented to enliven their sound palettes.
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| 11:00 | | | | | | | 11:001/2Proms family concert with popular classics alongside music from BBC TV series Doctor Who. 11:40Science-fiction writer Justina Robson explores the many meanings of Doctor Who.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Including two of Ives's works, The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark.(R)
| 12:002/5Ives's life and music were intertwined, as in his General William Booth Enters into Heaven(R)
| 12:003/5Ives's patriotism verged on the jingoistic, but his music tells a more nuanced story.(R)
| 12:004/5We meet Ives's adopted daughter Edie and the Transcendentalist writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.(R)
| 12:005/5Ives's invigorating Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos, and his majestic Psalm 90.(R)
| 12:15The story of the love affair between musicians Margaret Leng Tan and James Graseck.(R)
| 12:052/2Popular classics and music from Doctor Who. Includes Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs works by Schumann, Carter, Messiaen and Bartok.
| 13:005/8Pianist Ingrid Fliter performs Schubert's Impromptus, D899 alongside pieces by Chopin.
| 13:006/8Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Shai Wosner perform Bach, Janacek and Grieg.
| 13:007/8The Pavel Haas Quartet perform music by Prokofiev and Janacek.
| 13:008/8Tenor Allan Clayton and pianist Paul Lewis perform Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.
| 13:00Highlights of a concert of Norwegian folk music given a distinctive spin by Trio Mediaeval
| 13:003/3Coverage of the world music festival, including Serbian vocalist Svetlana Spajic.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Another chance to hear the BBC SO under Jiri Behlolavek in works by Carter and Messiaen.(R)
| 14:20Featuring works by Bax and Finzi, plus violinist Nigel Kennedy in Elgar's Violin Concerto.(R)
| 14:10Another chance to hear a Prom with French music. With Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony.(R)
| 14:30Another chance to hear a Prom with Rossini: William Tell Overture and Elgar: Symphony No 1(R)
| 14:15The BBC SO in Mendelssohn's Overture to Ruy Blas and Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.(R)
| 14:00Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs works by Schumann, Carter, Messiaen and Bartok.(R)
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents music including Miles Davis in Gershwin's Summertime.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Live sets and highlights from the annual festival of world music.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Highlights from the BBC Jazz Awards 2008, with the best of the live peformances.
| 16:00From Buckfast Abbey, Devon during the 2008 Exon Singers Festival.
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| 17:00 | 17:00With pianist Mark Tanner and composer John Mcleod, and Tallis Scholars' Peter Phillips.
| 17:00Sean's guests include Damon Albarn, Chen Shi-Zheng Andre de Ridder and Gavin Henderson.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests include Yan Pascal Tortelier, Barry Douglas and Alison Balsom.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests include the cast of a new production of The Wizard of Oz.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:00Charles Hazlewood and composer Joe Cutler examine Cutler's own Music for cello and strings
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Sharon Bezaly (flute) in a Handel sonata and Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) performing Beethoven
| 18:30Flautist Sharon Bezaly in a suite by Godard and baritone Ronan Collett in songs by Debussy
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| 19:00 | 19:301/2The French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and organist Olivier Latry perform Messiaen.
| 19:001/2The Stuttgart Radio SO in Rossini's William Tell Overture and Haydn's Cello Concerto No 1. 19:40Martin Handley talks to Roger Norrington.
| 19:001/3Martin Handley introduces the BBC SO in Mendelssohn: Overture (Ruy Blas); Symphony No 4. 19:40Artist Jonathon Brown give his personal thoughts on the shape of melody over the centuries
| 19:301/2BBC Philharmonic in Bax's In memoriam Patrick Pearse and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1
| 19:301/2A Prom on the theme of colour, featuring the premiere of Simon Holt's Troubled Light.
| 19:001/3John Tomlinson and the CBSO and Chorus in works by Mussorgsky, including Boris Godunov. 19:45John Rowe reads Evening by Boris Pasternak - a prose poem about a young poet.
| 19:00A performance of Olivier Messiaen's La Transfiguration de notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ.
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| 20:00 | 20:30Tom Service talks to French organist Olivier Latry about his role at Notre Dame Cathedral. 20:502/2Olivier Latry and the Radio France Philharmonic perform Saint-Saens's Organ Symphony.
| 20:002/2The Prom concludes with the Stuttgart Radio SO in Elgar's Symphony No 1 in A flat.
| 20:002/3The concert continues with Lars Vogt and the BBC SO in Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2. 20:50Liz Sutherland reads an extract from Iris Murdoch's famous novel.
| 20:201/3Roy Palmer discusses Bushes and Briars, the first folk song Vaughan Williams collected. 20:402/2The Prom concludes with Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 4, dedicated to Arnold Bax.
| 20:20William Crawley looks at the story of Hugh Lane's 39 French impressionist paintings. 20:402/2Featuring Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Ravel.
| 20:052/3Thomas Ades conducts the CBSO and Chorus in a performance of his own composition Tevot. 20:352/3A short story exploring the disintegration of a family, seen through the eyes of a girl. 20:553/3Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1, with Louis Lortie (piano); and Borodin: Polovtsian Dances.
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| 21:00 | 21:45Norman Lebrecht in conversation with leading French soprano Natalie Dessay.
| 21:15The links between EM Forster's homosexuality, his politics and his ability to mix cultures(R)
| 21:103/3The concert concludes with the BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek in Brahms's Symphony No 2.
| 21:30Sunil Khilnani questions the myths surrounding the man they call Netaji, or 'great leader'(R)
| 21:30Simon Holt talks to Sarah Walker about his work and introduces some of his chamber pieces.
| 21:45My Glass Body, by Anna Furse.(R)
| 21:00In 1675, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, a friend of Vermeer, made an astonishing discovery.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:30The featured artist is organist Olivier Latry, who is heard in music by Cesar Franck.
| 22:00The Tallis Scholars perform mass settings by Ockeghem, Obrecht and Desprez.
| 22:15Matthew Sweet revisists the cultural events of 1958, the year Vaughan Williams died.
| 22:15Soprano Elizabeth Watts performs music by Elizabeth Maconchy. 22:30Featuring Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame, Paris, famous for performing Messiaen.
| 22:15Pianist Edward Kunz plays music with a spanish flavour, including Scarlatti and Albeniz. 22:301/3Including live sets from Algerian Rai rocker Rachid Taha, Terakaft and Toumani Diabate.
| 22:302/3Coverage of the world music festival, with Egyptian vocalist Sheikh Taha and Jah Wobble.
| 22:15Sara Kestelman and Rory Kinnear read poetry and prose about childhood, set to music.(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:001/3Novelist and journalist Terence Blacker discusses the guitar. 23:15Charlie Gillett presents sounds from around the world, plus a session from DeVotchKa.
| 23:30With a motet by Guillaume de Machaut and incidental music by John Baker.
| 23:002/3Poet Ruth Padel recalls her role as a viola player, which won out over piano playing. 23:15With Mississippi string band Floyd Ming's Pep Steppers and organ music by JJ Froberger.
| 23:003/3Jonathan Coe recalls his piano playing days, which led to forming a band. 23:15Including the Incredible String Band and chamber music by Toru Takemitsu.
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