BBC Radio 3

Petroc regularly presents the classical magazine programme Music Matters, Radio 3's evening topical drive-time show In Tune and concerts in Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Petroc Trelawny joined Radio 3 in 1998. He has been co-host of ‘In Tune’, the station's drive-time arts magazine, since 2002. Raised and educated in Cornwall, he started his career at BBC Radio Devon, as a reporter and presenter, at the age of nineteen hosting the station's major news programming, and soon after becoming one of the nation's youngest newsreaders, presenting bulletins for BBC Plymouth's 'Spotlight'.

Having read the news for British Forces Radio during the first Gulf War, he then joined the network as a presenter in Hong Kong, spending a year broadcasting to the military in what was then still a British colony.

After a board-member of Classic FM heard him at work in Hong Kong, Petroc was invited to return to London to join the nascent commercial network, where he presented the afternoon show from the station's first day on-air. In 1994 he was invited to join London News Radio, and hosted a daily three hour newstalk magazine, where guests included cabinet ministers and senior businessmen alongside Dame Edna and Gore Vidal.

In 1997, he co-presented (with R5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire) the BBC GMR Breakfast Show in Manchester, covering the city's recovery from the IRA Bombing, and its planning for the Commonwealth Games.

While in Manchester he started anchoring live broadcasts of concerts for Radio 3, joining the station full time the following year, and returning to London. As well as presenting Breakfast, and subsequently In Tune, Petroc has introduced hundreds of broadcasts of chamber music and symphony concerts for Radio 3, many from the BBC Proms, as well as Cardiff Singer of the World, and Leeds International Piano Competition. Petroc has interviewed many of the world's leading conductors, composers, performers and singers.On Television Petroc has been seen extensively on BBC2 and BBC Four.

He also broadcast for RTE Lyric FM in Ireland, where his major documentary series ‘Max and St Magnus – An Orkney Saga’ won a prestigious ESB Media Award.

As a writer Petroc has regularly contributed to The Spectator, The Irish Times, The Catholic Herald and BBC Music Magazine. Petroc is chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society, a charitable trust whose aim is to promote performance of the English composer’s music.

Petroc lives in central London. As well as music his passions include Cornwall, travel, food and literature. His musical tastes are wide, from early choral music to Sondheim musicals. He is particularly fond of the operas of Britten and Mozart, the symphonies of Shostakovich, and the piano sonatas of Beethoven.