| 00:00 | 00:00Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music.(R)
| | | | | | 00:00Catherine Bott talks to Stephen Carpenter of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightement.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Verdi, Franck, Schoeck, Kodaly, Sibelius and Stravinsky.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Mozart, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Mussorsgsky and Brahms.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Faure, Mahler, Rameau and Bella.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Mendelssohn, Weber, Dvorak, Walton, Brahms, Bach and Chopin
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Kodaly, Shostakovich, Pergolesi, Bach, Beethoven and Haydn.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music by Schubert, Bartok, Delibes, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Kuula, Cherubini, Mozart, Bach, Bartok and Schubert.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Britten, Bruckner and Boccherini
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music by Bach, Mozart, Soler, Vivaldi, Wolf and Diego de Salazar.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music by Bach, Rameau, Beethoven, Stanford, Vivaldi and Bax.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Liszt
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music by Bach, Holst, Chopin, Gabrieli, Telemann and Mozart.
| 07:00Martin Handley introduces music by Grieg, Weber, Copland and Marais.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Dvorak, Boyce, Arnold, Bach, Ravel and Handel.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Mozart: Concerto in G, K216, plus highlights from three new DVDs of great pianists.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Cocker, Handel, Avery Burnett, Stanford and Elgar.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Scarlatti, Haydn, Bach, Mendelssohn, Falla and Couperin.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt and Janacek
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Wagner, Parker, Vierne, Widor, Mozart, Copland and Strauss.
| 10:00Sarah Walker introduces music by Lehar, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Poulenc and Handel.
| | 10:00Mary King sits in for Iain Burnside and looks at music festivals and their musicians.
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| 12:00 | 12:00Donald Macleod considers Rameau's first 50 years, which are largely shrouded in mystery.(R)
| 12:00Rameau is best known for his operas, yet he didn't write his first until he was nearly 50.(R)
| 12:00With Rameau's music composed for the 1745 wedding of the Dauphin to Maria-Theresa of Spain(R)
| 12:00Donald Macleod introduces a complete performance of Rameau's acte de ballet Pygmalion.(R)
| 12:00Donald Macleod devotes his final programme to Rameau's final opera Les Boreades.(R)
| 12:15Bonnie Greer recalls the Fisk Singers, a groundbreaking 19th-century British black choir.(R)
| 12:00Palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey, chooses music including Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Making his Proms debut, Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) performs music by Ortiz and Hume.
| 13:001/8The Hagen Quartet perform string quartets: Haydn: Op 76 No 1; and Dvorak: Op 106.
| 13:002/8The Hagen Quartet perform string quartets: Haydn: Op 76 No 2; and Janacek: Kreutzer.
| 13:003/8The Hagen Quartet perform works for strings by Dvorak, Schulhoff and Janacek.
| 13:004/8The Hagen Quartet perform string quartets: Haydn: Op 76 No 5; Smetana: From my life.
| 13:00Catherine Bott with highlights of a concert of Gregorian chant performed at Edinburgh 2008
| 13:002/2Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert of Corsican vocal polyphony from A Cumpagnia.
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| 14:00 | 14:00Gianandrea Noseda conducts Puccini's opera Il Tabarro. Plus Rachmaninov's Symphony No 1.
| 14:00The BBC Philharmonic in a Prom featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.
| 14:00A Prom with Martin Frost (clarinet) and the Gothenburg SO in music by Ravel and Berlioz.
| 14:00A Proms featuring the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Haydn, Schoenberg and Brahms.
| 14:00Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in three works by Janacek. Plus Chamber Music
| 14:00Making his Proms debut, Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) performs music by Ortiz and Hume.
| 14:00Listeners' requests include Natalie Dessay and Laurent Naouri performing Offenbach.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Festival on the Niger 2008 highlights, with Afel Bocoum, Neba Solo and Mangala Camara.
| 15:00From the Priory Church, Edington, during the 2008 Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00An all-CD edition of the programme, with saxophonist Tony Kofi discussing his new album.
| 16:00Simon Preston (organ) in music by Bach, including the celebrated Toccata and Fugue.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00Petroc Trelawny is joined by Peter Holman and jazz singer and pianist Estelle Kokot.
| 17:00With the Denys Baptiste Quartet playing in the studio. Plus Jiri Belohlavek.
| 17:00Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:00With conductor Philippe Herreweghe and soprano Gillian Keith.
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| 17:00Charles Hazlewood conducts an exploration of Ralph Vaughan Williams suite, Flos Campi.(R)
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30The National Youth Orchestra in Varese's Ameriques and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.
| 18:30Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and baritone Ronan Collett perform music by Schubert.
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| 19:00 | 19:30The BBC SSO under Ilan Volkov give the UK premiere of Elliott Carter's Soundings.
| 19:00The BBC SSO in Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen and Messiaen's own Concert a quatre. 19:35Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the work of IRCAM, the musical research and production house. 19:55The Prom continues with Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos plango, vivos voco, plus Soundings.
| 19:00Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in Act 1 of Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty.
| 19:30Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances.
| 19:00The Gurzenich Orchestra in a recreation of a 1904 concert featuring Mahler's 5th Symphony.
| 19:30Ian McMillan and his guests explore the way classical music is portrayed in fiction. 19:50The Prom concludes with Copland's Third Symphony, featuring Fanfare for the Common Man.
| 19:00John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's St John Passion, with the Monteverdi Choir.
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| 20:00 | 20:25Matthew Sweet goes on urban safari with travel writers Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane 20:45The Prom concludes with Beethoven's Symphony No 6 (Pastoral). BBC SSO/Ilan Volkov.
| 20:35Ivan Hewett looks at the work of Edgar Varese, one of the musical world's great outsiders. 20:55This electro-acoustic Prom concludes with two works by Edgar Varese.
| 20:15The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams discusses Dosotoevsky, his literary hero. 20:35This Prom concludes with Acts 2 and 3 of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty.
| 20:05Richard Foster takes a light-hearted look at energy saving and the great British summer.(R) 20:25The Prom concludes with the Jiri Belohlavek and the BBC SO in Janacek's opera Osud (Fate).
| 20:15The legacy of the Gurzenich Orchestra, one of Germany's leading symphony orchestras. 20:35Continuing with Stockhausen's Punkte, to mark what would have been his eightieth birthday.
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| 21:00 | 21:45Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, talks to Norman Lebrecht.
| | | | 21:10By Istvan Orkeny. A story told by a mother who must identify the body of her dead son.(R) 21:30The Prom concludes with songs by Schubert and Beethoven's Leonore Overture.
| 21:00The play centres on an encounter between two isolated men - an astronaut and a CB fan.(R)
| 21:15Stephen Johnson presents an elegiac portrait of Vaughan Williams the man and composer.
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| 22:00 | 22:301/4The featured artist is mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager, who is heard in songs by Mahler.
| 22:00Paul Bennun spends seven days living solely through the portal of his computer screen.(R) 22:452/4The featured artist is mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirschlager, who is heard in music by Bach.
| 22:30Featuring mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, who is heard in music by Handel.
| 22:00Rana Mitter considers the legacy of the August 1920 Soviet march on Warsaw.(R) 22:454/4Featuring mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, heard in music including songs by Korngold
| 22:30Saxophonist Oliver Lake discusses his work and selects highlights from his back catalogue.
| 22:00An exploration of the Jimi Chord, a chord found in the opening of Hendrix's Purple Haze.(R) 22:30A concert given at Glasgow's City Halls, with concertos by Rolf Hind and Detlev Glanert.
| 22:00Chinese cellist Jian Wang performs the first three of Bach's six solo cello suites.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/4Jamaican poet James Berry talks about revising the idea of Britishness he has absorbed.(R) 23:15Lopa Kothari's global musical mix includes bassist Jah Wobble's at WOMAD 2008.
| 23:002/4As an immigrant, writer Nadeem Aslam explores his ambiguous relationship to Britain.(R) 23:15Italian-inspired music, including works by Charlemagne Palestine and Dallapiccola.
| 23:003/4Eva Hoffman looks at how Britain should balance old values with new and foreign ones.(R) 23:15With pastoral music by Vaughan Williams and Van Morrison, plus music from Calabria.
| 23:004/4Kapka Kassabova contrasts her impresssions of the UK as a teenager and later as an adult.(R) 23:15With arrangements of Bach's chorale prelude Ich ruf' zu dir and music from Umbria.
| 23:30Highlights of Charlie Haden's Quartet West playing at the 2007 London Jazz Festival.
| | 23:15Words and music relating to marriage, with readings by Jane Lapotaire and Ralf Little.
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