Lucie Skeaping considers the background to a significant 'musical war' in the 1750s...
Catherine Bott delves into the music of Pergolesi, whose 300th anniversary falls in...
Lucie Skeaping explores the 'balet comique de la royne'.
Live coverage of the New Year's Concert from Vienna. Georges Pretre conducts.
Petroc Trelawny and Louise Fryer reveal who listeners have voted Composer of the Ye...
Donald Macleod introduces the little-known musicians of 17th and 18th-century Spain...
Behind the scenes at the New Year's Day Concert, presented from Vienna by Brian Kay...
Looking at Kodaly's suite Hary Janos and profiling the cimbalom, which features in...
Paul Gambaccini explores how The Beatles' music was captured on record.
Jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert performs Jane Austen's favourite songs.
Clive Anderson looks back at the entertainment highlights of the past year's Loose...
Vincent recovers in hospital following the incident in which he severed his own ear...
Melvyn Bragg travels to Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experi...
Rob Brydon explores the time Elvis spent in Las Vegas and his influence upon the ci...
Spitting Image's Roger Law visits the people behind a 1980s Russian version of the...
The cast and crew discuss discuss the TV episode 2 of The End of Time.
From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael Rosen investigates silence.
Elaine talks to multiple Oscar-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch.
Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor David Tennant.