The Radio 3 Documentary

Forster's gay love story was a forbidden book, unpublished until his death.

James Rhodes is a massive Glenn Gould Geek: throughout his childhood he listened to Gould's recordings, had posters of him on his bedroom walls, and in the years since, those recordings have helped James through some of his darkest times. Gould is globally famous today not just for his astounding recordings as a pianist but also his many idiosyncrasies - humming throughout his performances, abando...

Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers

Germany's celebrating 500 years since the Reformation - but what does it mean today? Chris Bowlby visits Wittenberg - where Martin Luther started it all in 1517. He discovers how the Reformation transformed life in many different ways, and helped make Germany a nation of singers and book-lovers. But amidst all the culture and kitsch Germany's also grappling with a darker legacy - Luther's anti-Sem...

The Rev Lucy Winkett goes on the trail of Martin Luther's musical reformation.

To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley presents a profile.

Jon Gower visits the island of Skokholm off the coast of south west Wales, and uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley, whose work inspired 'Watership Down'

Why did hundreds of jazz musicians turn to heroin in the post-war period?

How did opera become an art form consumed today by millions of people globally on computer screens, in cinemas and on the radio? And how, in particular, did New York's Metropolitan Opera become one of the most iconic and powerful producers of this Old World export? Flora Willson traces the roots of today's phenomenon of opera in cinemas to the years 1890-1930, when New York emerged as a global ope...

Kevin Le Gendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane

The controversial French composer Boulez made three life-changing trips to South America.

In the Nazi camps and ghettos a vast range of music was created

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on how different cultures have viewed the end of the world

Christian Weikop, examines Kandinsky's Russian roots.

Listen in pop-out player Did Freud really dislike music as much as he professed? Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music. He talks to the American cultural analyst Michelle Duncan, pscyho-analysts and writers Darian Leader and Julie Jaffee Nagel, the music critic David Nice, whose first job it was to take tours around the Freud Museum in Hampstead, and the Barcel...

David Attenborough recalls collecting music from around the world, and listens once again

Is the avant-garde dead? Paul Morley conducts an autopsy, but detects signs of life ...

Sandeep Parmar retraces the steps of "Paris", a lost Modernist masterpiece by poet Hope Mirlees, and Daniel Lee explores the fate of North Africa's Jewish communities during WW2.

1. Euphemism and Eroticism in Scottish Gaelic Songs. 2.Reappraising Nollekens.

What was the BBC's panel for new scores for broadcast? Charlotte Higgins finds out.

Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French

Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996

Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.

Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part

Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery, who may have inspired Conan Doyle's detective, and Freud's theory of the unconscious. Naomi Alderman investigates.