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Lancashire dialect in song

Broadside ballads in Manchester.

• 45 mins

Interview with conductor Stephane Deneve

Tom Service talks to conductor Stephane Deneve. Also viola da gamba player Hille Perl.

• 45 mins

Christopher Purves

Tom Service talks to acclaimed British baritone Christopher Purves.

• 45 mins

Music and language in Northern Ireland

Kate Molleson with the latest feature about music and language around the British Isles.

• 45 mins

Chicago: Yo-Yo Ma and Riccardo Muti

Tom Service visits Chicago to talk to cellist Yo-Yo Ma and conductor Riccardo Muti.

• 45 mins

Tom Service talks to conductor Paavo Jarvi

Tom Service talks to Paavo Jarvi and to composers John L Adams and Tansy Davies on nature.

• 45 mins

Debussy, David Toop and Rhythms of the Heart

Tom Service previews Glyndebourne's new production of Pelleas et Melisande.

• 45 mins

Music and Language

Kate Molleson explores connections between music and language.

• 44 mins

Bernstein's New York

Tom Service travels to New York City to discover Bernstein's musical and social legacy.

• 44 mins

When Words Fail

Kate Molleson talks to Estonian-American conductor Neeme Jarvi and Else Marie Pade.

• 44 mins

Hearing Voices

Jocelyn Pook, Edinburgh's new concert hall, and mudlarking on the Thames

• 44 mins

Composers - What planet are they on?

Tom Service meets composer Joan Tower, and hears a new musical Planets inspired by Holst.

• 44 mins

Passion, Masks and Parry

Tom Service meets Pascal Dusapin, as his new dance-opera Passion tours the country.

• 44 mins

The Power of Performance

Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and Mark Wigglesworth on the art of conducting.

• 44 mins

Hidden Voices and Blue Force Fields

Sarah Connolly and the Aldridge sisters

• 44 mins

Whisky, Beethoven and Crocodiles

Tom Service discusses Beethoven with Angela Hewitt, and crocodiles with Felix Stroeckens

• 44 mins

Dangerous Futures, Dangerous Dances

Violinist Baiba Skride, and a new score of Ravel's Bolero.

• 44 mins

Memory, Loss, and Music’s Universal Power

New music for a century of Armistice days and 350 years of Francois Couperin

• 44 mins

Musical Stories of Past and Present

Claron McFadden, and gender representation in UK jazz.

• 44 mins

Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki

Punching Above Your Weight: Bassoons and Boxing, Dundee and Helsinki.

• 44 mins

Bohemia, Berio, and Bowing Out

Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa plus getting inside Luciano Berio's Sinfonia

• 44 mins

Delius and the Sound of Place

Delius and the Sound of Place, and conductor Daniel Harding

• 44 mins

A (music) lover's guide, and Venus unwrapped

A new book for classical music lovers.

• 44 mins

Christmas in the Fens

Kate Molleson visits the Fens to explore some of the music-making going at Christmas

• 44 mins

The tentacles of freedom

Composer Du Yun and Opera in the Jazz Age.

• 44 mins

Amo amas amat-eur Orchestras! And Arnold in the US

Soprano Diana Damrau, amateur orchestras and Schoenberg's correspondence

• 44 mins

Fire and ice

From new compositions inspired by the icy poles to the fiery emotion of Ermonela Jaho.

• 44 mins

Spirit and Invention

Conductor and violinist Reinhard Goebel and Gillian Moore's new book The Rite of Spring.

• 44 mins

Changing times, changing identities

Tom speaks to Emma Kirkby. Also, the impact of Brexit on musicians. And music in convents.

• 44 mins

Berlioz – the Ultimate Romantic

A reappraisal of the French composer on the 150th anniversary of his death.

• 44 mins