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Essential Classics Episodes

  1. Thursday with Rob Cowan - Strauss II's Thunder and Lightning Polka, Baritsu, Jacqueline Wilson

    Dame Jacqueline Wilson names her cultural inspirations and influences.

  2. Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Captain Pouch Clair de Lune, Jacqueline Wilson

    Wednesday with Rob Cowan, Clair de Lune, Jacqueline Wilson.

  3. Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Jacqueline Wilson, Bach's B Minor Mass, Il Cupolone

    Dame Jacqueline Wilson names her cultural inspirations and influences.

  4. Monday with Rob Cowan - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Jacqueline Wilson, Kinoplastikon

    Dame Jacqueline Wilson names her cultural inspirations and influences.

  5. Friday with Rob Cowan - Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Vladimir Jurowski, Tom Service in Russia

    Conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences.

  6. Thursday with Rob Cowan - Handel's Va tacito, Vladimir Jurowski, Tom Service in Russia

    Conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences.

  7. Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Scriabin and fake synaesthesiacs, Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights, Vladimir Jurowski

    Conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences.

  8. Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Tom Service in Russia, Vladimir Jurowski, Weber's Invitation to the Dance

    Conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences.

  9. Monday with Rob Cowan - Vladimir Jurowski, Onfim, Shostakovich's Romance from The Gadfly

    Conductor Vladimir Jurowski lists his inspirations and influences.

  10. Friday with Suzy Klein - Bridget Kendall, Beethoven 5, Tom Service in Russia

    Bridget Kendall talks about the ideas that inspired and shaped her throughout her life.

  11. Thursday with Suzy Klein - Rachmaninov's second piano concerto, Bridget Kendall, Vikings in Russia

    Journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural influences and inspirations.

  12. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Stravinsky's Firebird, Swan Lake, Bridget Kendall

    Journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural influences and inspirations.

  13. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Bridget Kendall, Lenin's Tomb, Pachelbel's canon

    Journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural influences and inspirations.

  14. Monday with Suzy Klein - Soviet Synthesizers, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Bridget Kendall

    Journalist Bridget Kendall lists her cultural influences and inspirations.

  15. Friday with Suzy Klein - Copland's Appalachian Spring, Armando Iannucci, Solar Storms

    Armando Ianucci lists his cultural influences and inspirations.

  16. Thursday with Suzy Klein - A Tudor Labradoodle, Bach's Violin Concerto in E, Armando Iannucci

    Armando Ianucci reveals his inspirations and influences.

  17. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, Armando Iannucci, The Telediphone

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

  18. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre, Armando Ianucci, The Celestial Bed

    Armando Ianucci lists his cultural influences, and new companion pieces for Danse Macabre.

  19. Monday with Suzy Klein - Armando Ianucci, Road Signs and Musical Notation, Ravel's String Quartet

    Armando Ianucci names his cultural inspirations and influences that have shaped him.

  20. Friday with Rob Cowan - The Chance to Dance, Wagner's Meistersinger Overture, Patricia Routledge

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

  21. Thursday with Rob Cowan - Patricia Routledge, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Bone Piles

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

  22. Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube, Patricia Routledge, Macon

    Dame Patricia Routledge lists her influences and inspirations.

  23. Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Upsetting the Apple Cart, Patricia Routledge

    Dame Patricia Routledge reveals the cultural influences that have shaped and inspired her.

  24. Monday with Rob Cowan - Patricia Routledge, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto

    Rob Cowan presents as Dame Patricia Routledge lists her influences and inspirations.

  25. Friday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edgar Wallace and the Dictaphone, Tavener's Song for Athene

    Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

  26. Thursday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Bizet's Habenara, Nails

    Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

  27. Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Chabrier's Espana, Kwame Kwei-Armah, The Pointe of Shoes

    Suzy Klein looks for potential companion pieces to Emmanuel Chabrier's Espana.

  28. Tuesday with Suzy Klein - The Artificial Intelligence of Ada Lovelace, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Kwame Kwei-Armah

    Featured guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

  29. Monday with Suzy Klein - Kwame Kwei-Armah, Farewell to Stromness, The Early Modern Exercise Revolution

    Suzy Klein's guest Kwame Kwei-Armah reveals the cultural influences that have shaped him.

  30. Friday with Rob Cowan - Vivaldi's Autumn (from the Four Seasons), Derren Brown, Rossetti's Wombats

    Rob Cowan with the best in classical music, plus illusionist Derren Brown.

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