| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Lucie Skeaping explores how the bassoon developed from early curtals, dulcians and bajons.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Haydn, Shostakovich, Debussy and Rachmaninov.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Stravinsky, Respighi, Haydn and Rimsky-Korsakov.
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Nielsen, Mozart, Scriabin, Bruhns, Bach and Mendelssohn
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presents music by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Bach, Liszt, Lindblad and Brahms
| 01:00Jonathan Swain introduces music by Mozart, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Martinu, Bach and Holst.
| 01:00Through the Night
with John Shea
Broadcast throughout Europe by the BBC
| 01:00Through the Night
with John Shea
Broadcast throughout Europe by the BBC
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan with music by Brumel, Fucik, Pachelbel, Coleridge-Taylor, Vivaldi and Scriabin.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Walton, Handel, Purcell, Britten, Bartok and Stravinsky.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by Handel, Borodin, Holst, Beethoven, CPE Bach and Roggen.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music by Mozart, Handel, Smetana, Montsalvatge, J Straus II and Liszt.
| 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music by JC Bach, Stravinsky, Bach, Copland, Schumann and Rachmaninov
| 07:00Breakfast on Radio 3 with Martin Handley
| 07:00Breakfast on Radio 3 with Martin Handley
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00Summer CD Review with Andrew McGregor
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents by music by Rossini, Danzi, Hilhjaud, Stravisnky and Tchaikovsky.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Walton, Drofnatski, Ravel, Lully, Shostakovich and Mozart.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Sibelius, Bantock, Britten, Martucci, Tchaikovsky and Beach
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Mozart, Ireland, Strauss, Handel, Moszkowski and Musgrave.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Walton, Stravinsky, Schumann, Takemitsu and Mendelssohn.
| | 10:00Iain focuses on musical heroines and is joined by Peggy Reynolds to talk about hers.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Exploring Faure's First Violin Sonata, which earned him esteem and a publishing contract.(R)
| 12:002/5Faure meets Liszt, inspires Proust and chooses a wife by a rather unconventional method.(R)
| 12:003/5The composer turns 40, discovers Verlaine, overcomes depression and starts an affair.(R)
| 12:004/5Examining how the composer coped with World War I and his own worsening deafness.(R)
| 12:005/5Deafness forces Faure to quit the Paris Conservatoire, but the nation celebrates his music(R)
| 12:15Nigel Kennedy pays tribute to the great improvising violinist Stephane Grappelli.(R)
| 12:00Folk singer Judy Collins chooses music by Rachmaninov, Sondheim and Joni Mitchell.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Tenor Mark Padmore and the Nash Ensemble perform Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge.
| 13:005/12A concert featuring the Belcea Quartet performing Bartok's String Quartets Nos 1, 3 and 5.
| 13:006/12Penny Gore presents the Belcea Quartet performing Bartok's String Quartet Nos 2, 4 and 6.
| 13:007/12Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and Enrico Pace (piano) in music by Schnittke and Shostakovich.
| 13:008/12Russian cellist Mischa Maisky in romantic Russian songs and Shostakovich's Cello Sonata.
| 13:00Music by composers who were native to or residents of the German city of Hamburg.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of music written in celebration of Queen Elizabeth I
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| 14:00 | 14:00With BBC Proms 2008: The NYO in Varese's Ameriques, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.
| 14:30The RPO Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5.
| 14:30A Prom featuring Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and Job.
| 14:15Susanna Malkki leading the Philharmonia in works including Eotvos' violin concerto Seven.
| 14:30A Prom with the Oslo Philharmonic in works by Magnus Lindberg, Rachmaninov and Sibelius.
| 14:00Tenor Mark Padmore and the Nash Ensemble perform Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge.
| 14:00Matthew Barley with listeners' requests, including music by Golijov and Tippett.
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Featuring singer Kaushiki Chakrabarty and a performance of Raag Abhogi.
| 15:00From St Malachy's Church, Armagh. Sung by members of the 2008 Charles Wood Summer School.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Jazz Line-Up with Julian Joseph featuring the Basquiat Strings
| 16:00A performance of Messiaen's only opera, which explores the life of St Francis of Assisi.
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| 17:00 | 17:00With pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Marc Verter, plus theatre director Edward Kemp.
| 17:00Nigel Kennedy, Simon Keenlyside and Kyle Ketelsen chat to Sean Rafferty.
| 17:00There's live music from The Opera Group, ahead of their new production of Varjak Paw.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the music world
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world.
| 17:30Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
| 17:15Peter Hill Nigel Simeone and Pierre Audi discuss Messiaen's opera Saint Francis of Assisi. 17:35The Prom continues with the second part of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | 18:30Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter in Haydn and Israeli pianist Shai Wosner in Beethoven.
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| 19:00 | 19:00A performance of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, featuring Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider. 19:50In 1826, publisher John Murray II infamously tried to create a rival to The Times.
| 19:30The Berlin Philharmonic in Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde. 19:50Thomas Bloch discusses the ondes martenot with ex-Pogues member David Coulter.
| 19:30The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle perform Brahms's Symphony No 3.
| 19:00The BBC NOW under Tadaaki Otaka in Grace Williams's Sea Sketches and Elgar's Sea Pictures. 19:50Susan Hitch and Bridget Kendall discuss Russian literature and current affairs.
| 19:30The London Philharmonic in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Kashchey the Immortal.
| 19:30The RSNO in Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane Suite No 2 and Rachmaninov's Pano Concerto No 2.
| 19:25Ivan Hewett explores the origins and evolution of music.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:10The Prom concludes with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Sibelius's Symphony No 2.
| 20:10The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle perform Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
| 20:10Geoff Dyer explores changing ideas of privacy, personal space and good manners on trains.(R) 20:30The Prom concludes with the Berlin Philharmonic performing Shostakovich's Symphony No 10.
| 20:10The Prom concludes with Tadaaki Otaka directing the BBC NOW in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6
| 20:35Robert Chandler and Zinovy Zinik discuss the power and myth of Russian fairytales. 20:55The Prom concludes with the London Philharmonic performing Stravinsky's The Firebird.
| 20:30Poet Jean Sprackland and novelist Julie Myserson discuss writing about the sea. 20:50The Prom concludes with the RSNO in Thea Musgrave's Rainbow and Debussy's La mer.
| 20:25The Prom concludes with the third part of Messiaen's Saint Francis of Assisi.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Norman Lebrecht talks to celebrated opera and film director Franco Zeffirelli.
| 21:451/3Author Juan Gabriel Vasquez visits Bogota to show what has inspired his writing.(R)
| 21:452/3Writer Edgardo Cozarinsky visits Buenos Aires to explore the popularity of psychoanalysis.(R)
| 21:153/3Writer Daniel Alarcon visits a ghost town and Lima as he explores migration in Peru.(R)
| | 21:45A savagely comic look at the pleasure and pain of being mixed race in Britain today.(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00A concert featuring Messiaen's Cinq rechants plus motets, chansons and Indian night ragas.
| 22:30Featuring the Berlin Philharmonic, who are heard in performances conducted by Simon Rattle
| 22:30Featuring the Berlin Philharmonic, who are heard in performances under Herbert Von Karajan
| 22:00Verity Sharp presents a performance of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.
| 22:00A look back at the case of the poisoning of 50 men in Nagyrev in Hungary.(R) 22:30Brian Priestley and Alyn Shipton review the work of Ellington collaborator Billy Strayhorn
| 22:30The BBC Philharmonic scores chosen by the Society for the Promotion of New Music.
| 22:15Poetry and music on the theme of sleep, including music by Strauss and poetry by Keats.
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| 23:00 | 23:30Charlie Gillett with music including Orchestra Baobab from the Radio 3 Stage at WOMAD 2008
| 23:001/2Poet Anne Stevenson explores the influence that TS Eliot's work has had on her.(R) 23:15Robert Sandall with music by maverick songwriters, including Tom Waits and Laurie Anderson
| 23:003/2Anne-Marie Fyfe is influenced by Emily Dickinson, who lived as a recluse in Massachusetts.(R) 23:15Robert Sandall presents music including Damon Albarn's opera Monkey.
| 23:15Music including covers of songs by Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and Radiohead.
| 23:30Jez Nelson presents the world premiere of guitarist Mike Walker's Ropes project.
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