Creativity, performance, debate
Picks from the first week of In Tune in 2017, including Edward Gardner and Ange Hardy.
Anton Lesser and Imogen Stubbs explore Stefan Zweig's memoir The World of Yesterday.
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, exploring eccentricity.
Poetry, prose and music on a theme of the object of commerce and symbol of virility - hair
Anne McElvoy asks if public enquiries are good government. Plus Matthew Parris on scorn.
Philip Dodd and guests consider what we mean by 'news' in 2016.
Sean visits pianist Stephen Hough at his home to hear about his passions.
Edith Hall, Chris Kissane and Matthew Sweet on what might be on a Brexit reading list.
Tom Service focuses on Schoenberg's objection to being dubbed 'controversial'.
Texts and music on the theme of pearls, with readings by Aysha Kala and Jude Akuwudike.
Samuel West and Romola Garai celebrate Graham Greene on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Andrew Martin contemplates the ghosts of fact and fiction, plus some in his own life
An adaptation of John Osborne's landmark play, which was originally banned in 1965.
Music and poetry inspired by utopia, marking the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's book.
Retired mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig talks to Tom Service about her life in music.
Tom Service considers what is background music and how it functions in our lives.
Ian McMillan presents a Christmas edition of the word cabaret in front of an audience.
Folk singer Shirley Collins discusses her musical passions with Michael Berkeley.
With music by Tippett, Puccini and Chopin and readings by Imogen Stubbs and Simon Shepherd
Ian McMillan presents archive recordings of remarkable poets reading their own work
Ian McMillan's guests are Ian Rawes, Meike Ziervogel, Oli Hazzard and Matthew Kaner.
Discussing the maths gallery at the Science Museum and the need for better numeracy.
Pianist Jonathan Biss on late works, Fiona Maddocks on music 'to carry you through'.
Author Julian Barnes considers whether his point of view has changed over the years