| 00:00 | 00:00With Julian Joseph. Including features on Joe Zawinul and vocal harmony group Take 6.
| | | | 00:00Verity Sharp presents music for the end of Christmas Day.
| | 00:00Alyn Shipton picks the finest discs by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff.(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00John Shea introduces music, beginning with a sequence of works by Beethoven.
| 01:00John Shea spotlights the work of GoteborgsMusiken, led by Jerker Johansson.
| 01:00John Shea introduces the Swedish Chamber Choir in a series of season and traditional works
| 01:00John Shea's selection includes a Christmas Medley from The Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
| 01:00John Shea introduces music including Tchaikovsky, Westlake, Samuel-Rousseau and Boccherini
| 01:00John Shea introduces music including Nielsen, Sibelius, Schubert, Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin.
| 01:00John Shea spotlights the Borodin Quartet in works by Haydn, Myaskovsky, Shostakovich.
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| 07:00 | 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music including Mendelssohn, Cantaloube, Bach and Mozart.
| 07:00Murray Perahia plays Chopin's Ballade No3, Il Giardino Armonico perform Vivaldi.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Bach, Sigurbjornssen, Tchaikovsky and Ades.
| 07:00Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a special Christmas edition of the programme.
| 07:00Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music by Bach, Chilcott, Ireland, Elgar, Sullivan and Mendelssohn.
| 07:00Alistair Appleton presents music by Mahler, Jackson, Kabalevsky and Poulenc.
| 07:00Alistair Appleton presents music by Verdi, Tippett, Copland, Bach and Waldteufel.
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| 09:00 | | | | | | 09:00With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra.
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| 10:00 | 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Purcell, Haydn, Villette, Debussy and Lutoslawski.
| 10:00Sarah Walker with music by Mozart, Palestrina, Bruckner, Schubert, Elgar and A Scarlatti.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Mendelssohn, Jarman, Charpentier, Waldteufel and Saboly.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Handel, Neusidler, Beethoven, Neruda, Finzi and Praetorius.
| 10:00Sarah Walker presents music by Walton, Arnold, Faure, Sammartini, Delius and Beethoven.
| | 10:00Iain is joined by guests including Nicholas Hytner and Douglas Boyd.
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| 12:00 | 12:001/5Donald Macleod follows Puccini's path to fame and fortune on the operatic stage.(R)
| 12:002/5Puccini's elopement with one of his pupils, Elvira Gemignani, had lasting consequences.(R)
| 12:003/5Donald Macleod looks at the lifestyle Puccini enjoyed at his home in Torre del Lago.(R)
| 12:004/5The two operas Puccini wrote to David Belasco plays showed him to be making real advances.(R)
| 12:005/5The 20th century saw Puccini searching for a new dramatic direction.(R)
| 12:15Daniel Hope explores the history of the violin.
| 12:00Michael Berkeley talks to comedian Sue Perkins, who chooses Britten, Mozart and Pergolesi.
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| 13:00 | 13:001/5With Louise Fryer. Includes Leopold String Trio in Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K370.
| 13:002/5With Louise Fryer. Nash Ensemble - Mozart: String Quintet, K516. Mendelssohn: Octet, Op 20
| 13:003/5With Louise Fryer. Adam Walker (flute), Lucy Wakeford (harp) in Mozart: Andante, K315.
| 13:004/5Louise Fryer presents highlights from the Bath Mozartfest 2008.
| 13:00With Louise Fryer. The Vienna Piano Trio in Mozart and Leopold String Trio in Beethoven.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping explores the music of the 15th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford.
| 13:00Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival in Germany.
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| 14:00 | 14:00The 1956 recording of Tosca to mark Puccini's 150th birthday, plus Prokofiev's Cinderella.
| 14:00With Louise Fryer. Magnificats and carols from around the world in a BBC Singers concert.
| 14:00With music from the BBC CO Fabulous Family Music Day and Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet.
| 14:00Stephen Cleobury directs the choir for the annual Festival from King's College, Cambridge.
| 14:00The LSO under Valery Gergiev in a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
| 14:00The Belcea Quartet at London's Wigmore Hall in Webern and Schubert.(R)
| 14:00Chi-chi Nwanoku presents a selection of listeners' requests.
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| 15:00 | | | | 15:40Including Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Christmas music by Leroy Anderson and Frank Bridge.
| | 15:001/2Lucy Duran travels to rural North East Brazil, going in search of traditional Forro music.
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| 16:00 | | | | | | 16:00Alyn Shipton selects the best of a number of new reissues of bandleader Earl Hines's music
| 16:00An archive service of music and readings with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
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| 17:00 | 17:001/12Milton explains man's disobedience, the loss of Paradise and describes the fall of Satan. 17:50Verity Sharp introduces Giuliano Sommerhalder, Jennifer Pike and the Pavel Haas Quartet.
| 17:002/12Satan and his cohorts debate whether another battle should take place to recover Heaven.
| 17:003/12God explains to his son that he will regard man's fall with some grace as he was seduced. 17:50With harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, violinist Tai Murray and the Aronowitz Ensemble.
| 17:004/12Satan journeys to Paradise where he looks into the garden and sees Adam and Eve.
| 17:005/12God sends Raphael to warn Adam and to explain how free will operates. 17:55Recordings by the Pavel Haas Quartet, violinist Tai Murray and viola player Maxim Rysanov.
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| 17:00Stephen Johnson explores the Play of Daniel, one of the earliest pieces of music theatre.
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| 18:00 | | 18:05Verity Sharp with recordings by Ingrid Fliter, Meta4, and Danjulo Ishizaka and Shai Wosner
| | 18:05Including recordings by pianists Ingrid Fliter and Paul Turner and soprano Elizabeth Watts
| | 18:00Puccini's La fanciulla del West in a production by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
| 18:45Aled Jones explores choral singing in the world of musicals.
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| 19:00 | 19:00John Eliot Gardiner conducts a cantata from Bach's Christmas Oratorio. And Suite No 1 in G
| 19:00John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 4. Plus Proms 2008 highlights.
| 19:00John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's Brandeburg Concerto No 5 and Suite No 3 in C.
| 19:00BBC Concert Orchestra under Paul Daniel in Bax and Finzi, and Nigel Kennedy in Elgar.(R)
| 19:00Austrian classics performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the 2008 BBC Proms.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:35Joan Bakewell discusses belief with the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali.
| 20:45Joan Bakewell talks with public figures, artists and thinkers about what they believe.
| 20:45Joan Bakewell discusses belief with novelist, critic and cultural historian Marina Warner.
| | 20:45Joan Bakewell discusses belief with Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, head of Britain's Reform Jews.
| | 20:00Three short symbolist plays by Maurice Maeterlinck, adapted by Katie Hims.
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| 21:00 | 21:05Organist James O'Donnell performs Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecote.(R)
| 21:15An America-focused Prom, with works by Torke, Adams, Bernstein and Ellington.(R)
| 21:15The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Paul Hillier perform Rachmaninov's Vespers.(R)
| 21:00Joan Bakewell talks with public figures, artists and thinkers about what they believe. 21:30A concert featuring Messiaen's Cinq rechants plus motets, chansons and Indian night ragas.(R)
| 21:15The King's Singers celebrate their 40th anniversary year with an Anglo-French programme.(R)
| 21:00A story about black female identity told through the words of poets. 21:306/12Michael continues to explain to Adam the conflict with Satan and his Angels.
| 21:20Pianist Marielle Labeque plays Rossini's Petite messe solennelle. 21:307/12Adam asks Raphael to tell him why the world was created.
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| 22:00 | 22:151/5Donald Macleod follows Puccini's path to fame and fortune on the operatic stage.
| 22:302/5Puccini's elopement with one of his pupils, Elvira Gemignani, had lasting consequences.
| 22:303/5Donald Macleod looks at the lifestyle Puccini enjoyed at his home in Torre del Lago.
| | 22:305/5The 20th century saw Puccini searching for a new dramatic direction.
| 22:302/5Highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
| 22:15Poetry and music on the theme of Ancient Greece. Readings by Tim McMullan, Clare Higgins.
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| 23:00 | 23:15Jez Nelson presents jazz critics' selections from their favourite album releases of 2008.
| 23:30Verity Sharp presents music, including Vox Clamantis and the Weekend Guitar Trio.
| 23:30Verity Sharp presents music from Magpie Lane, Sufjan Stevens, and Bob and Gill Berry.
| 23:004/5The two operas Puccini wrote to David Belasco plays showed him to be making real advances.
| 23:30An eclectic mix of global sounds including a studio session by Omara Portuondo
| | 23:30Featuring a set recorded at Ronnie Scott's by trumpeter and composer Guy Barker.
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