| 00:00 | | | | | | | 00:00Alyn Shipton picks the essential recordings of the 1960s improvised jazz quartet.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Bruckner, Beethoven, Bach, Rameau, Brahms, Rota and Mozart.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music by Schubert, Reich, Zemlinsky, Byrd, Mozart and Beethoven.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music, including Rossini, Chopin, Vivaldi, J Strauss II and Mozart.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe presents music, including Wagner, Schumann, Strauss, Liszt, Rameau and Haydn.
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music including Mahler, Reger, Dussek, Ravel, Ockeghem and Scheidt
| 01:00Susan Sharpe introduces music including Donizetti's La Favorita, Haydn, Reger, Biber, Bach
| 01:00Jonathan Swain presens music by Beethoven, J Strauss II, Poulenc, Bach, Brahms and Dvorak.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Rob Cowan introduces music, including Fasch, Schubert, Rezniceck, Strauss and Haydn.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Vivaldi, Holst, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich and Ravel.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including A Scarlatti, Ockeghem, Albeniz, Copland and Handel.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Handel, Delius, Albinoni, Debussy, Haydn and Ibert.
| 07:00Rob Cowan presents music, including Wallace, Handel, Monteverdi, Bach, Grieg and Smetana.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music, including Handel, Schubert, Tchaikovksy and Delius.
| 07:00Martin Handley presents music by Chopin, Handel, Shostakovich, Bach, Skempton and Mozart.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Beethoven's Cello Sonata in C, Op 102.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents music, including Ravel, Wolf, Bach, Alkan, Verdi, Liszt and Sarasate
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music, including Stavinsky, Piazzolla, Cobian, Jack and Chopin.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music, including Schickhardt, Glass, Liadov, Byrd and Tavener.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Bridge, Rutter, Anderson, Paganini, Liszt and Vierne.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Handel, Walton, Reicha, Glazunov, Tallis, Kancheli and Bach
| | 10:00Iain explores the point where heaven and earth meet in works by Beethoven and Stravinsky.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore early influences on Messiaen.
| 12:00Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone look at Messiaen's life and career in Paris.
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod explores the works making up Messiaen's Tristan trilogy.
| 12:004/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore nature in Messiaen's music.
| 12:005/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore Messiaen's final works and his legacy.
| 12:15Presented by Tom Service. Including 100 years of Elliott Carter's correspondence.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley's guest is writer Janice Galloway, who chooses pieces by both Schumanns.
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| 13:00 | 13:00Laurence Power presents a spell-binding programme of music.
| 13:001/4Jonathan Swain introduces Vertavo Quartet from Norway in Nielsen and Sibelius.
| 13:002/4With Jonathan Swain. Christina Astrand (violin) and Per Salo (piano) in Grieg and Nielsen.
| 13:003/4Jonathan Swain introduces pianist Martin Roscoe in music by Stenhammar, Grieg and Nielsen.
| 13:004/4Jonathan Swain introduces soprano Inger Dam-Jensen in music by Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen
| 13:00Catherine Bott discusses the composers and perfomers associated with Le Concert Spirituel.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores Parisian locations associated with Jean-Baptiste Lully.(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00Jonathan Swain presents the BBC Singers in Britten, Bruch and Shostakovich.
| 14:00Presented by Jonathan Swain. BBC Singers in Gordon and Schittke, and BBC SO in Liadov.
| 14:00The BBC Singers perform Harvey, Holst, Messiaen and Vir, and the BBC SO perform Mussorgsky
| 14:00Presented by Jonathan Swain. BBC Singers perform music by Christopher Brown and Hugh Wood.
| 14:00With Jonathan Swain. BBC Singers in Bach, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Chilcott and Holst.
| 14:00Laurence Power presents a spell-binding programme of music.
| 14:00Presented by Chi-chi Nwanoku. Including Shostakovich's Symphony No 3 (The First of May).
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| 15:00 | | | | | | 15:00Lucy Duran presents a specially recorded session with Malian duo Amadou and Mariam.
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| 16:00 | | | 16:00From Lichfield Cathedral.
| | | 16:00Daniel Barenboim makes his Met debut conducting Wagner's influential and powerful opera.
| 16:00From Lichfield Cathedral.
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| 17:00 | 17:00Sean Rafferty's guests include Allan Clayton, Julius Drake and the Navarra String Quartet.
| 17:00Featuring pianist Artur Pizarro and conductor Thomas Kemp on Chamber Domaine's Gorecki CD.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With gypsy tango group Zum and Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy.
| 17:00Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music, plus news from the arts world.
| 17:00Presented by Sean Rafferty. With soprano Carolyn Sampson and conductor David Parry.
| | 17:00Stephen Johnson explores Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.
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| 18:00 | | | | | | | 18:30Aled Jones considers the choral legacy of Olivier Messiaen.
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| 19:00 | 19:00Petroc Trelawny presents the Bournemouth SO in Beethoven and Shostakovich.
| 19:00Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder in Vaughan Williams, Mozart, Strauss.
| 19:00Petroc Trelwany introduces highlights and results from the 2008 British Composer Awards.
| 19:00From Glasgow City Halls. Petroc Trelawny presents the BBC SSO in Stravinsky, Rachmaninov. 19:30A poor Russian postmaster is distraught when his beloved daughter runs away with a hussar. 19:50Petroc Trelawny presents BBC SSO under Stefan Solyom in Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale.
| 19:00With Petroc Trelawny. BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky in Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5. 19:40Deborah Bull explores the relationship between music and dance, from Tchaikovsky to today.
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| 20:00 | | | | | 20:00The BBC Philharmonic under Vassily Sinaisky in excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty
| | 20:00Zimbabwean playwright Andrew Whaley's satire set in Zimbabwe during the slum clearances.
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| 21:00 | 21:15Matthew Sweet discusses the first production of Dylan Thomas's newly discovered radio play
| 21:15Isabel Hilton finds out what ingredients are necessary to make a good Eyptyian gallery.
| 21:15Philip Dodd talks to one of France's best-known intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Levy.
| 21:15Matthew Sweet with Free Thinking 2008 highlights, including Paul Preston and Mark Haddon.
| 21:15Ian McMillan's guests include poet George Szirtes and author Steven Hall.
| 21:15Portrait of the late Ed Dipple, who ran a famous second-hand jazz shop in Kings Cross. 21:45Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge with Stephen Layton in Pawel Lukaszewski's O Antiphons
| 21:20Avison Ensemble under Pavlo Beznosiuk in Charles Avison's Concerto grosso in C, Op 9 No 5. 21:30David Norbrook traces Milton from his age to ours, and considers his importance today.
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| 22:00 | 22:001/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore early influences on Messiaen.
| 22:00Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone look at Messiaen's life and career in Paris.
| 22:003/5Donald Macleod explores the works making up Messiaen's Tristan trilogy.
| 22:004/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore nature in Messiaen's music.
| 22:005/5Donald Macleod and biographer Nigel Simeone explore Messiaen's final works and his legacy.
| 22:30Ivan Hewett talks to composer Elliott Carter, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2008.
| 22:15Poetry and music inspired by Milton's description of 'darkness visible' in Paradise Lost.
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| 23:00 | 23:001/5Author Michael Symmons Roberts describes the influence of poet David Jones on his work. 23:15Jez Nelson showcases emerging jazz talent, including The Mighty Jeddo.
| 23:002/5Alison Brackenbury explores the impact the poet John Clare has had on her writing. 23:15Presented by Verity Sharp. With music from Tallis, Moussu T e lei Jovents and John Adams.
| 23:003/5WN Herbert explores the work of Edwin Morgan, regarded as Scotland's national 'makar'. 23:15Verity Sharp presents music by Paprika Balkanicus, Kouame Sereba and Alvin Lucier.
| 23:004/5Menna Elfyn discusses T Gwynn Jones, who wrote in the strict metres of Welsh poetry. 23:15Verity Sharp presents Japanese Geza music and a Theme and Variations by Moondog.
| 23:005/5Fred D'Aguiar talks about Wilson Harris, a Guyanese-born poet, essayist and novelist. 23:15Charlie Gillett with the results of the fRoots Critics Award for Album of the Year 2008.
| | 23:30Julian Joseph with a round-up of new CDs and a feature on tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin
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