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We're kicking off Crossed Wires festival with a piece of audio history! Jarvis Cocker has recorded a special version of the Shipping Forecast to mark its centenary. It'll be played in full at a special Ships live show at the Crossed Wires Festival/BBC Sounds Fringe today. Thanks Jarv!

Art dealer and collector Danny Katz joins Private Passions at noon on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds . A quite extraordinary story of perseverance, a stroke of luck and a good eye, especially for Renaissance sculpture. With music by Schubert, Mahler, Sibelius and Bernstein.

Move over Gavin & Stacey… Our Composer of the Week is the original star of #Barry - Grace Williams, one of #Wales’s most celebrated composers. Donald Macleod explores her life & work, 4pm each weekday BBC Radio 3 BBC Sounds BBC NOW Producer alice mckee bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This was a fascinating first episode of Music in Bloom — our five-night series on music and gardens, presented by Katie Derham: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

When a conductor describes a symphony as ‘the one for my last concert, the one I’d take to a desert island, the one I love most in the world’ you know you’re in for a memorable evening. Yoel Gamzou conducts Mahler's Ninth this evening BBC Radio 3 See you at 7.30pm

We had BBC Radio 4 on when driving down to Cornwall at half-term. This programme was just starting. It's the most joy-filled, uplifting story. One of those 'turn the radio up' moments, and well worth a quick trip to BBC Sounds to enjoy it for yourself...

World famous BBC Proms to be hosted in Sunderland for the first time sunderlandecho.com/whats-on/thing…

Six months ago I went on Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ to launch Bantam Of The Opera. Little did any of us know about the life-changing journey that was about to unfold! Tomorrow I return but this time with the whole choir 🧡 Can’t wait to sing for you Petroc Trelawny BBC Radio 3!

"A return to form and to full force." Delighted to read this overview of the 2025 BBC Proms season from Alexandra Coghlan in The Tablet: thetablet.co.uk/arts/the-proms…

This Friday, Petroc Trelawny broadcasts from the recently restored Bradford Live, as BBC Radio 3’s In Tune celebrates Bradford 2025. We’re live from 5pm with a host of special guests, and lots of brilliant music: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

gorgeous morning in Bradford. Join us live for In Tune at 5pm ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩

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My top picks from a fab 2025 BBC Proms lineup in this week's The Tablet: thetablet.co.uk/arts/the-proms…

This Sunday: Elizabeth Alker welcomes Sir Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre, Nils Frahm and more to BBC Radio 3, for what promises to be a fascinating exploration of the threads that connect rock, pop and classical music's avant garde: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Enjoyed chatting with This Is London about the forthcoming BBC Proms season (and my favourite Italian restaurant, which hardly anyone at the BBC seems to know about...yet...):

I’ll be joining Andrea Catherwood on BBC Feedback next week. I’ve no idea what we’ll be talking about. The reason? It’ll be entirely led by the questions posed by BBC Radio 3 listeners and fans of the BBC Proms. Get in touch here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

Have a listen back to this on BBC Sounds 👇🏼 It is absolutely phenomenal. 🎶🎤🎧 BBC Radio 3 Petroc Trelawny @Bradford2025 #BantamOfTheOpera James Sills Lesley Garrett CBE 📻 #Bradford

A joy to join Michael Berkeley on his amazing Private Passions BBC Radio 3 a rare opportunity to share the music that’s formed me & shaped my life and my work - in education & with children as Children's Commissioner for England Airs today at 12 & then on BBC Sounds. 👇🏻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… 🎶

For my The Times and The Sunday Times audio column today, I’ve written about my trip last weekend to Crossed Wires Festival in Sheffield. Only in its second year but already a really stimulating festival. And with ambitions to make Yorkshire a year-round centre for audio.

Today at 7:15pm in the BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, hear Paul McCartney discuss Delia Derbyshire and Jean-Michel Jarre talk about French surrealism, plus more little tasters of the interviews and pop/classical connections that also feature in my forthcoming book Everything We Do Is