Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

Stephen Johnson considers how Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 thrilled the first audience

• 13 mins

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

Stephen Johnson studies the audience's reaction to Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks

• 13 mins

Music in Its Time

Haydn: Symphony No 100 (Military)

Exploring the impact of Haydn's Military Symphony on its first audiences in 1790s London.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Victoria: Lamentations

Exploring the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Scenes from Childhood

Exploring how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Bach: St Matthew Passion

Exploring the impact of Bach's St Matthew Passion on its first audiences in Leipzig.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

The Firebird

Stephen Johnson on the reactions of the first audiences to Stravinsky's The Firebird.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Mahler's Symphony No 8

The 1910 premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for which he hired impresario Emil Gutman.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Byrd: Mass for Four Voices

The secret performances of Byrd's masses in Elizabethan England.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

Stephen Johnson considers how Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony surprised its audience.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4

Stephen Johnson on Beethoven's decision to unveil three new works at one public concert.

• 15 mins

Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly on her career, her family and characters she has played.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu

Composer Nicola LeFanu discusses her musical career, spanning over half a century.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam

Soprano Kathryn McAdam discusses her life in music as well as what and who inspires her.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham

Alice Farnham, one of Britain's leading female conductors, discusses her life in music.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 1

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 2

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 3

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 4

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 5

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Peter Owen-Jones

How eternity should be reclaimed from those who have tried to place it out of our reach.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Mona Siddiqui

Muslim theologian Mona Siddiqui speaks on the prospect of immortality.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Anders Sandberg

Anders Sandberg argues that ageing and mortality may be transformed by future technology.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Naomi Alderman

Novelist and game creator Naomi Alderman spekas on mathematical theories about infinity.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett argues efforts to give eternity a shape and momentum are temporary and futile

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicholas Shakespeare

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicola Barker

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 14 mins

Dawnwalks

Kamila Shamsie

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Ian Sansom

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins