| Day | Hour | Type Event | Name Lang | Event name | Short Event | Extended Lang | Extended Event |
| 06/05 | 09h30>13h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Essential Classics | Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises. | ||
| 06/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: CPE Bach | 1/5. Donald Macleod examines what CPE Bach has to tell us about his family, whose musical credentials reached back seven generations. | ||
| 06/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Katie Derham introduces live music from the Mithras Trio, and she talks to contralto Hilary Summers about her forthcoming Brighton Festival show, What's So Great About Opera? | ||
| 06/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | A 30-minute sequence of classical favourites including music by JS Bach, Schubert, Mozart, Antheil, Whitacre and Teresa Carreño. | ||
| 06/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | François-Xavier Roth conducts the LSO in two of Beethoven's most enjoyable but least played symphonies, and Bertrand Chamayou joins for Unsuk Chin's glittering Piano Concerto. | ||
| 06/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Dietrich in 5 Songs | From her definitive role as Weimar vamp Lola Lola to an ageing legend with broken bones, Dietrich never stopped singing Falling in Love Again, an anthem she initially loathed. | ||
| 06/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 06/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Late night UK jazz presented by Soweto Kinch. Guest Amanda Whiting plays a record. | ||
| 06/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | The 'Amadeus' Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, conductor Anna Duczmal-Mróz and soloists in music by Bacewicz, Baird and Respighi. Penny Gore presents. | ||
| 07/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 07/05 | 09h30>13h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Essential Classics | Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites. | ||
| 07/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Tom McKinney showcases live recordings from around the globe, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven, and pianist Bertrand Chamayou playing Schumann. | ||
| 07/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: CPE Bach | 2/5. Donald Macleod follows CPE Bach to Berlin, where he's apparently been headhunted for a prestigious position working for King Frederick the Great. | ||
| 07/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Katie Derham is joined by tenor and conductor Nicholas Mulroy, who is about to embark on a tour of Scotland with Dunedin Consort, and pianist Angelo Villani plays live. | ||
| 07/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. | ||
| 07/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and principal conductor Ryan Bancroft perform Barber's Violin Concerto with Benjamin Baker, alongside his Adagio and Charles Ives' 2nd Symphony. | ||
| 07/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Dietrich in 5 Songs | Film writer David Thomson picks apart the elaborate creation of Dietrich's personae through her collaboration with director Joseph von Sternberg and songs like When Love Dies. | ||
| 07/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 07/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Soweto Kinch celebrates new British jazz. Guest Amanda Whiting plays a record. | ||
| 07/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Pianist Alexandra Dariescu joins the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Giordano Bellincampi in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Danielle Jalowiecka presents. | ||
| 08/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Hannah French presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 09/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Tom McKinney showcases live recordings from around the globe, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra playing Berlioz, and pianist Bertrand Chamayou performing Britten and Brahms. | ||
| 09/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: CPE Bach | 4/5. After three decades working the same job, Bach moves to new city and makes a fresh start. Presented by Donald Macleod. | ||
| 09/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Katie Derham talks to the conductor and harpsichordist Christophe Rousset about the new recording with his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques of Cimarosa's opera L'Olimpiade. | ||
| 09/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music by Smetana, Gibbons, Beethoven, Bernstein, Florence Price, Ravel and Ola Gjeilo. | ||
| 09/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | The London Symphony Orchestra in music from the The Bad and the Beautiful, Vaughan Williams' wartime Fifth Symphony and Bertrand Chamayou joins them for Ravel's Piano Concerto. | ||
| 09/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Dietrich in 5 Songs | Writer Paul Morley alights on Where Have All the Flowers Gone. A Pete Seeger anti-war folk song that Dietrich transmuted into something tender and powerful, tempered by experience. | ||
| 09/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 09/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Today's guest is Amanda Whiting. Soweto plays new music from Bex Burch and KOKOROKO. | ||
| 09/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Members of the Lotz Trio and Musica Florea, soprano Michaela Riener and their artistic director Róbert Sebesta in music by Telemann and his contemporaries. Penny Gore presents. | ||
| 10/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Late Junction | Jennifer Lucy Allan shares ALT, a piece for nine alto saxes by Signe Emmeluth, specially recorded at Borealis festival in Bergen. Plus music from O Yama O and Tidiane Thiam. | ||
| 10/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | BBC 6 Music presenter Gilles Peterson makes a 'Round Midnight mixtape. | ||
| 10/05 | 00h30>01h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Tearjerker | A series of healing, emotional music presented by Aurora. | ||
| 11/05 | 01h30>02h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Essential Classics Mix | Georgia Mann guides you through a mix of the greatest classical music to refresh your day. | ||
| 11/05 | 02h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Mao Fujita plays Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23 with Alessandro Bonato conducting the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin. Tchaikovsky's Symphony no 1 completes the programme. | ||
| 11/05 | 06h30>09h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Join Elizabeth Alker to wake up the day with a selection of the finest classical music. | ||
| 11/05 | 09h00>12h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Saturday Morning | Tom Service talks to the star pianist Alice Sara Ott and plays the best classical music, from familiar favourites to new discoveries. He also talks to comedy duo TwoSet Violin. | ||
| 11/05 | 12h00>13h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Earlier... with Jools Holland | Jools is joined by musician and composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson, with music by Bach, Brahms, Berlioz and Bechet. | ||
| 11/05 | 13h00>14h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | Music Matters: The Land Without... | ...Music?. 6/6. Richard Morrison concludes his series by looking at how we gain access to music for all in the UK today, starting with one of classical music's biggest events: the BBC Proms. | ||
| 11/05 | 14h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Record Review | In Building a Library, Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. Plus, William Mival with an exciting pile of new releases. | ||
| 11/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | Sound of Cinema | With the release of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Matthew Sweet hails cinema's greatest apes - from King Kong to Gorillas In The Mist. | ||
| 11/05 | 17h00>18h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | This Classical Life | Jess is joined by pianist and composer Arsha Kaviani to swap some of the music they love the most, including Brahms, Beethoven and Jeff Buckley. | ||
| 11/05 | 18h00>21h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Opera on 3 | Asmik Grigorian and Jonathan Tetelman star in Puccini's tragedy of Americans in Japan, conducted by Xian Zhang live at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. | ||
| 11/05 | 21h30>22h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Music Planet | Kathryn Tickell presents a recording of Estonian folk group Duo Ruut live in concert in Tallinn plus the latest new releases. | ||
| 11/05 | 22h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | New Music Show | Kate Molleson reports from this year's Tectonics festival in Glasgow, with an adventurous mix of new orchestral work, improvised and electronic music. | ||
| 11/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Violinist Aylen Pritchin joins WDR Symphony Orchestra and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in a concert featuring Beethoven's Violin Concerto and 5th Symphony. Jonathan Swain presents. | ||
| 12/05 | 06h30>09h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show with music that captures the mood of Sunday morning. Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 12/05 | 09h00>12h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Sunday Morning | Sarah Walker chooses three hours of attractive and uplifting music to complement your morning, whether you're out on the road or keeping cosy at home. | ||
| 12/05 | 12h00>13h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Private Passions | Michael Berkeley's guest is the film producer Alison Owen. | ||
| 12/05 | 13h30>15h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Music Map | Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical landscape around Smetana's Vltava, listening in deeply to find sonic connections across time and space. | ||
| 12/05 | 15h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Choral Evensong | Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the Eve of the Ascension, with music by Mathias, Lucy Walker and Howells. |