The best of BBC Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas programme Night Waves - featuring in-depth interviews with artists, scientists and public figures, vociferous debates, and reviews of the latest cultural events. 

In Tune Highlights

Highlights from BBC Radio 3’s weekday drivetime programme In Tune - featuring interviews with guests from the world of music and the arts. In Tune is broadcast every weekday 4.30-6.30pm, presented by Sean Rafferty or Suzy Klein on BBC Radio 3.

Radio 3 Essay

Authored essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week. Each episode is full of insight, opinion and intellectual surprise from one expert voice. We aim to include as many episodes of The Essay in the download as we can but you'll find that some aren't included for rights reasons.

Story of Music Question Time

Sue Perkins and Tom Service unravel everything you've ever wondered about music - but were too afraid to ask. 

The In Tune A-Z of Opera

A comprehensive guide to the language of opera with contributions from singers, conductors, directors and vocal coaches. 

In-depth, biographical portraits of pre-eminent classical musicians and artists interviewed by Norman Lebrecht. Frank, self-appraising and psychologically revealing, these 44 minute interviews include conductors, singers, broadcast weekly during the BBC Proms season, July to September. Lebrecht interviews this year include Riccardo Chailly, Marilyn Horne, Simone Young, Sir Roger Norrington and Joyce DiDonato. 

The Radio 3 Documentary

In-depth documentaries which each week explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 7.45pm on BBC Radio 3. Each episode lasts 45 minutes. We aim to include as many episodes of The Sunday Feature in the podcast as we can but you'll find that some aren't included for rights reasons.

A partial archive Desert Island Discs from 1956 to 1960. Castaways choose eight records, a book and a luxury to take with them to the mythical desert island. 

A partial archive of Desert Island Discs from 1960 to 1969. Some Desert Island Discs programmes only exist in their incomplete form. They may be missing interview content or the musical choices. Where possible, the missing music has been rebuilt using discs from the BBC Gramophone Library. This collection comprises fragments from 1960-69.


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