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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

Hel's Deep and Mountains High

The Monstrous Child, composer Anthony Payne, piano duos, yoga, mountains and gods.

• 44 mins

Tales of the popular

Kate Molleson visits Sir Karl Jenkins at his studio.

• 44 mins

Hans Keller 100 and International Women's Day

Hans Keller and International Women's Day.

• 44 mins

Music, Architecture and Activism

Conductor Jessica Cottis, musical activism and how music changes in different spaces.

• 44 mins

Spring lambs, blue sheep

Music Matters marks the beginning of spring.

• 44 mins

Music Matters Lab at Free Thinking

Kate Molleson gets emotional at the Free Thinking Festival for this live special.

• 44 mins

Music without compromise

Tom meets Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili.

• 44 mins

Michael Tippett and Ukrainian polyphony

A new biography on composer Michael Tippett and the Ukrainian polyphony project.

• 44 mins

Transgender opera singers, harpsichords and Billy Budd

Sara Mohr-Pietsch speaks to transgender singers from around the world.

• 44 mins

Serious fun

Singer Rosalind Plowright, 18th-century Scottish music theorists and a biography of Dukas.

• 44 mins

Being seen, being heard

Kate Molleson talks to Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla. Music fan clubs. Folk singer Josephine Foster

• 44 mins