Get more from the music with a series of informative, funny and entertaining talks from expert speakers.
As the 2016 list of baby names is revealed, Sophie Coulombeau investigates our names.
Samantha Bond reads from the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Petroc Trelawny is joined by Jan Smaczny to introduce Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.
Tom Service introduces Henri Dutilleux's Timbres, espace, mouvement with Caroline Rae.
Kate Kennedy and musicologist J.P.E. Harper Scott introduce Elgar's First Symphony.
Christopher Cook talks to Jonathan Cross, Stravinsky expert.
Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank, discusses her memoir.
Teffi is a re-discovered author, writing satirical tales about Russia in the 1920s.
Stephen Baxter examines the work of science-fiction writer H. G. Wells.
Grime introduces the first part of her new two-part commission, Two Eardley Pictures.
Actor Simon Callow reads from the German Romantics who inspired Johannes Brahms.
Martin Handley discusses the score of Duke Bluebeard's Castle with musicologists.
Patricia Duncker and Clare Walker-Gore explore Eliot's relationship with Germany.
Sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston looks at shipwrecks and sea captains in Shakespeare.
The journey music takes from the composer's pen to the orchestral players' music stands.
Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion with Geoffrey Robertson QC.
Fascinating insights into the work’s structure and power.
Religion in Shakespeare considered by the Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dr Richard Chartres.
Colonel Tim Collins discusses the depiction of soldiers and war in Shakespeare’s work.
Novelist Melissa Harrison explores our relationship with the weather.
Alun Withey and Kathryn Hughes discuss the politics of facial hair through the ages.
Clemency Burton-Hill talks to teachers and children about the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Ten Pieces.
Martin Handley is joined by Oliver Soden to discuss the life and work of Michael Tippett.
To mark the hundredth anniversary of Henry James' death, Rana Mitter chairs a discussion.
