May Radio 3 and TV listings
Schedules may be subject to alteration. For up-to-date listings see Radio Times
1 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema
4-5pm Music Planet
5-10pm Opera on 3
Monteverdi L’orfeo. Opera North
2 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Camilla Pang (biologist/writer) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm Listening Service 5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Andy Kershaw’s Lost Tapes CHOICE 7.30-9pm Drama on 3
Folk by Nell Leyshon
9-11pm Record Review Extra BBC Young Musician Final TBC
3 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Satie
1-pm Lunchtime Concert 2-5pm Afternoon Concert 5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’, Sally Beamish Viola Concerto No. 3 ‘Under the Wing of the Rock’, Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise. Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC So/alpesh Chauhan 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paris 2021
11pm-12.30am
Night Tracks
4 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Satie
1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paris 2021
11pm-12.30am
Night Tracks
5 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Satie
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert 2-3.30pm Afternoon Concert 3.30-4.30pm Choral Evensong 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paris 2021
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
6 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Satie
1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paris 2021
11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am Unclassified
7 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Satie
1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
Paris 2021
11pm-1am
Late Junction
8 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera. Janáˇcek From the House of the Dead. 10pm-12am New Music Show 12-1am Freeness
9 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private
Passions George Szirtes
(poet and translator)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Andy Kershaw’s Lost Tapes 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 (rpt) 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
10 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Schumann 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Music Matters CHOICE 10.45-11pm The Essay
Peter Brathwaite 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
11 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Schumann 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Peter Brathwaite
11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
12 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Schumann 1-4.30pm As Wed 5 May 4.30-5pm New
Generation Artists
5-7.30pm In Tune plus Mixtape 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Peter Brathwaite 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
13 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Schumann 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. BBC Scottish SO
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
Peter Brathwaite
11-11.30pm Night Tracks 11.30pm-12.30am
Unclassified
14 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Schumann 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
Peter Brathwaite
11pm-1am Late Junction
15 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema
4-5pm Music Planet
5-10pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera. Strauss
Die Frau ohne Schatten. Klaus Florian Vogt (Emperor), Elza van den Heever (Empress), Michael Volle (Barak), Nina Stemme (The Dyer’s Wife), Evelyn Herlitzius (Nurse), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/ Yannick Nézet-séguin 10pm-12am New Music Show 12-1am Freeness
16 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Helen Macdonald (writer and naturalist) (rpt)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature 7.30-9pm Drama on 3
Killer by Eugene Ionesco
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
17 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Fauré 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
De Waal’s Itinerant Pots 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
18 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Fauré
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Robert Schumann Dichterliebe, Müller-hermann Vier Lieder, Carwithen Three songs to poems by Walter de la Mare. Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Jongsun Woo (piano)
2-7.30pm As Monday 17 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Cadogan Hall, London. Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Rawsthorne Piano Concerto No. 1, Ireland Concertino Pastorale, Walton
Façade: Suites Nos 1 & 2. Mark Bebbington (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/ Michael Seal
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
De Waal’s Itinerant Pots 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
19 WEDNESDAY
6.30am-12pm As Tue 18 May 12-1pm Composer of the Week Fauré
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from St David’s Hall,
Cardiff. Robert Schumann Fantasie in C, Bosmans Five Preludes. Danny Driver (piano) 2-7.30pm As Wednesday 5 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert Rowan Pierce (soprano),
Bath Festival Orchestra 10pm-12.30pm As Tue 18 May
20 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics
12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Fauré
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Schumann Fantasiestücke
Op. 73, Blumenstück Op. 9, Spain-dunk Prelude No. 2, Gipps Clarinet Sonata, Kovács Sholem-alekhem, rov Feidman!. Peter Cigleris (clarinet),
Duncan Honeybourne (piano) 2-7.30pm As Monday 17 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. BBC Scottish SO 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay
De Waal’s Itinerant Pots 11-11.30pm Night Tracks
21 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Fauré
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert live from St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Schumann Fantasiestücke
Op. 88, Bosmans Piano Trio. Leonore Piano Trio 2-7.30pm As Monday 17 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ryan Wigglesworth 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay
De Waal’s Itinerant Pots 11pm-1am Late Junction
22 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-6.30pm J to Z
6.30-9.50pm Opera on 3 from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Donizetti Roberto Devereux. Sondra Radvanovsky (Queen Elizabeth), Matthew Polenzani (Roberto Devereux), Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera/maurizio Benini 10pm-12am New Music Show 12-1am Freeness
23 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private Passions Zandra Rhodes (designer) 1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Rhythms of Remembering 7.30-9pm Drama on 3
The Rival by Jude Cook
9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
24 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mary Lou Williams 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
25 TUESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mary Lou Williams 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May CHOICE 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Erkki-sven Tüür Action, Debussy Six épigraphes antiques: Pour l’égyptienne, Sculthorpe Sonata for Strings No. 3, Webern Five Movements Op. 5, Jonny Greenwood ‘Proven Lands’ from There Will Be
Blood, Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge:
Funeral March and Chant,
Bach Chorale Prelude from the Art of Fugue, P¯eteris Vasks Musica Adventus, John Adams Shaker Loops: A Final Shaking. Scottish Ensemble
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
26 WEDNESDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mary Lou Williams 1-7.30pm As Wednesday 5 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from Perth Concert Hall. Felix Mendelssohn Overture: Die schöne Melusine, Ravel Piano Concerto, Mozart Symphony
No. 31. Steven Osborne
(piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra/douglas Boyd 10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-12.30am Night Tracks
27 THURSDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mary Lou Williams 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert live from City Halls, Glasgow. Joey Roukens Percussion Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 2. Colin Currie (percussion), BBC Scottish So/chloé van Soeterstede
10-10.45pm Free Thinking 10.45-11pm The Essay 11-11.30pm Night Tracks
28 FRIDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Mary Lou Williams 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in
Concert from the RSNO
Centre, Glasgow. Szymanowski Violin Concerto, Andrzej Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra.
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra 10-10.45pm The Verb 10.45-11pm The Essay 11pm-1am Late Junction
29 SATURDAY
7-9am Breakfast 9-11.45am Record Review 11.45am-12.30pm
Music Matters
12.30-1pm This Classical Life 1-3pm Inside Music
3-4pm Sound of Cinema 4-5pm Music Planet
5-10pm Opera on 3 10pm-12am New Music Show 12-1am Freeness
30 SUNDAY
7-9am Breakfast
9am-12 noon Sunday Morning 12 noon-1pm Private
Passions Laura Cumming
(art critic, The Observer)
1-2pm Lunchtime Concert (rpt) 2-3pm The Early Music Show 3-4pm Choral Evensong (rpt) 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-5.30pm The
Listening Service
5.30-6.45pm Words and Music 6.45-7.30pm Sunday Feature Regarding the Pain of Others 7.30-9pm Drama on 3 TBA (rpt) 9-11pm Record Review Extra 11pm-12am Sunday Series
31 MONDAY
6.30-9am Breakfast 9am-12noon Essential Classics 12 noon-1pm Composer of the Week Robert Simpson 1-7.30pm As Monday 3 May 7.30-10pm Radio 3 in Concert from the Barbican, London. Songs by Paul Weller. Paul Weller, Steve Craddock,
BBC So/jules Buckley 10-10.45pm Music Matters 10.45-11pm The Essay
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