Catherine Bott chairs a talk about the past, present and future of period performan...
Robert Hollingworth explores the life and work of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce.
Donald Macleod defines some of the characteristics of the Opera-Comique genre.
Stephen Johnson on Martinu's Piano Concerto No 2 and Three Inventions for Orchestra...
The complete cycle of Handel operas reaches Imeneo, one of the composer's shortest.
The late conductor Edward Downes in music by George Lloyd, Elgar and Maxwell Davies...
The Arcanto Quartet and Silke Avenhaus (piano) perform music by Kurtag and Dvorak.
Simon Blackburn assesses David Hume's revolutionary Dialogues Concerning Natural Re...
A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead f...
Comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar celebrates Monty Python's The Life of Brian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
Paul Merton celebrates 50 years of Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
Pam Ayres presents more of her own poetry and sketches. From June 2004.
Huey Morgan tells the story of the Rolling Stones' 1969 Let It Bleed tour.
Brian Matthew celebrates British dance bands with a profile of Jack Hylton.
Looking at the importance of radio in western swing's success.