Why Music? Live from Wellcome Collection

Tom Service discovers how music can be used as a means to manipulate and control us.

• 58 mins

Morton Feldman, My Life with Wagner

A profile of composer Morton Feldman and Christian Thielemann's book My Life with Wagner.

• 45 mins

OAE at 30

Petroc Trelawny celebrates 30 years of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

• 45 mins

Natalie Dessay, La Monte Young, Philharmonia and the Recording Industry

Petroc Trelawny with an interview with Natalie Dessay and a profile of La Monte Young.

• 45 mins

Roger Woodward, Music Theatre in Britain

Tom Service is joined by Australian pianist Roger Woodward.

• 45 mins

The Moderate Soprano, Mark Wigglesworth, Stravinsky

Tom Service meets Mark Wigglesworth, the new music director of English National Opera.

• 45 mins

Rule-Breakers in Classical Music

From Sage Gateshead, Tom Service hosts a debate about rule-breakers in classical music.

• 45 mins

Georg Friedrich Haas, Music for Video Games

Tom Service interviews composer Georg Friedrich Haas and discusses music for video games.

• 45 mins

Nick Gibb, Robert Craft Tribute, Frank Bridge Book, James Gaffigan

Tom Service is joined by schools minister Nick Gibb and conductor James Gaffigan.

• 45 mins

Alexander Goehr

Tom Service presents an extended interview with composer Alexander Goehr.

• 45 mins

Northern Lights: Sibelius 150

Tom Service travels to Finland in search of the real Sibelius and his landscapes.

• 45 mins

Books on Opera and World Music, Matthew Herbert

Presented by Tom Service. Including books on opera characters and world music traditions.

• 45 mins

Northern Lights: Tromso

Petroc Trelawny explores musical responses to the dark northern winters in Tromso, Norway.

• 45 mins

Pierre Boulez

Tom Service presents a tribute to French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.

• 45 mins

Morton Subotnick, The Lives of George Frideric Handel, Scottish Opera, Ilan Volkov

Tom Service talks to composer Morton Subotnick. Plus Scottish Opera and Ilan Volkov.

• 45 mins

Dutilleux 100

Tom Service presents a portrait of Henri Dutilleux on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

• 45 mins

Folk Connections; Chabrier

With Tom Service. Including a portrait of Emmanuel Chabrier and Folk Connections.

• 45 mins

Welsh Musical Life

Tom Service presents a special edition on Welsh musical life.

• 45 mins

Lang Lang

Lang Lang talks to Tom Service about his pianistic heroes and his involvement in education

• 45 mins

Kurtag at 90, Boris Giltburg, Glyndebourne Youth Opera

Tom Service profiles composer Gyorgy Kurtag and hears from pianist Boris Giltburg.

• 45 mins

Hakan Hardenberger, Akhnaten, Beethoven, ENO Chorus

Tom Service meets trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger and explores Philip Glass's Akhnaten.

• 45 mins

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, International Women's Day

Tom Service meets Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin.

• 45 mins

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore the radical 16th-century composer Gesualdo.

• 45 mins

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Tom Service with a tribute to the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

• 45 mins

Jerusalem, Bach's Vocal Works, Streetwise Opera, Errollyn Wallen

Including a visit to Streetwise Opera, a book about Bach and composer Errollyn Wallen.

• 45 mins

Ann Murray, Stalin's Music Prize

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, with Irish mezzo-soprano Ann Murray in conversation.

• 45 mins

Michael Finnissy, Ginastera, Sustainably Sourced Instruments

Tom Service interviews composer Michael Finnissy and discusses Alberto Ginastera.

• 45 mins

John Williams, Sviatoslav Richter Book

Tom Service talks to guitarist John Williams and reviews a memoir of Sviatoslav Richter.

• 45 mins

Sounds of Shakespeare

Tom Service on the music in Shakespeare's plays and Shakespearean music from BBC archives.

• 45 mins

Pleasure, Symphony Hall Birmingham

Tom Service visits Opera North for the premiere of Pleasure and interviews Mark Simpson.

• 45 mins