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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday with Ian Skelly - Saint-Saens Organ Symphony, Collecting things, New Year New Music, Harrison Birtwistle

    Ian Skelly with music that steps from the old to the new.

  2. Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Harrison Birtwistle, New Year New Music, A Pirate's Life

    Ian Skelly with music that steps from the old to the new.

  3. Tuesday with Ian Skelly - New Year New Music, Harrison Birtwistle, The Stone of Saxagonus

    Ian Skelly with music that steps from the old to the new.

  4. Tuesday with Ian Skelly - New Year New Music, Harrison Birtwistle, The Stone of Saxagonus

    Join Ian Skelly on New Year's Morning for a sequence of great classical music.

  5. Friday with Ian Skelly - Griff Rhys Jones, Mrs Mango's Missing Pearls, Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Snowflakes

    The best in classical music with Ian Skelly.

  6. Thursday with Ian Skelly - Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1, Griff Rhys Jones, What's in a Name?

    The best in classical music with Ian Skelly.

  7. Wednesday with Ian Skelly - A Clockwork Blackbird, Griff Rhys Jones, Beethoven's Bagatelle No 1

    The best in classical music with Ian Skelly.

  8. Tuesday with Ian Skelly - Griff Rhys Jones, Beethoven's Rage Over a Lost Penny, Yule Lads

    Spend Boxing Day morning with Ian Skelly and the best in classical music.

  9. Monday with Ian Skelly, The First Christmas Tree, Griff Rhys Jones, Wagner's Siegfried Idyll

    Spend Christmas Morning with Ian Skelly and the best in classical music.

  10. Friday with Suzy Klein - The Original Santa, Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Brian Blessed

    Brian Blessed lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  11. Thursday with Suzy Klein - Brian Blessed, Christmas Piggies

    Brian Blessed lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  12. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - The Nutcracker, Christmas Pigs, Brian Blessed

    Brian Blessed lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  13. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Brian Blessed, Albinoni Adagio, The Christmas of 1817

    Brian Blessed lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  14. Monday with Suzy Klein - Tinsel, Mozart Rondo in A minor, Brian Blessed

    Brian Blessed lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  15. Friday with Suzy Klein - Nulla in mundo pax sincera, The Wireless Air War, Terence Stamp

    Terence Stamp discusses his inspirations and influences.

  16. Thursday with Suzy Klein - Terence Stamp, Beethoven's 6th Symphony, Tattoos

    Terence Stamp discusses his inspirations and influences.

  17. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Vaughan Williams' The Wasps, Terence Stamp, Bus Shelters

    Terence Stamp discusses his inspirations and influences.

  18. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Terence Stamp, The First Woman on Ice

    Suzy Klein takes us through the morning with the best in classical music.

  19. Monday with Suzy Klein - Poisonous Hosiery, Mendelssohn Symphony No 4, Terence Stamp

    Suzy Klein takes us through the morning with the best in classical music.

  20. Friday with Rob Cowan - Grieg's Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Libraries, Antonio Pappano

    Rob Cowan takes us through the morning with the best in classical music.

  21. Thursday with Rob Cowan - The Talking Mongoose, James MacMillan's O Radiant Dawn, Antonio Pappano

    Rob Cowan takes us through the morning with the best in classical music.

  22. Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Life in the Arctic, Antonio Pappano, Farandole from Bizet's L'Arlesienne

    Musical Director Antonio Pappano lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  23. Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Antonio Pappano, Whiskers, Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine

    Musical Director Antonio Pappano lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  24. Monday with Rob Cowan - Antonio Pappano, Corinthian Spirit, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol

    Musical Director Antonio Pappano lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  25. Friday with Suzy Klein - Pig on the Thames, Rick Stein, Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours

    Restaurateur Rick Stein discusses the ideas and influences that inspired him.

  26. Thursday with Suzy Klein - The Telectroscope, MacCunn's Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Rick Stein

    Restaurateur Rick Stein discusses the ideas and influences that inspired him.

  27. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Rick Stein, Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain, Agniology

    Restaurateur Rick Stein discusses the ideas and influences that inspired him.

  28. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Gluck's Dance of the Blessed spirits, Rick Stein, Department Stores

    Restaurateur Rick Stein discusses the ideas and influences that inspired him.

  29. Monday with Suzy Klein - Rick Stein, Steel Jewellery, Andante from Schubert's Trio D 929

    Restaurateur Rick Stein discusses the ideas and influences that inspired him.

  30. Friday with Rob Cowan - Jacqueline Wilson, Bandstands

    Dame Jacqueline Wilson names her cultural inspirations and influences.

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