| Day | Hour | Type Event | Name Lang | Event name | Short Event | Extended Lang | Extended Event |
| 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 | 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. | ||
| 12/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Jazz Record Requests | Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles as requested by you including music from icons Miles Davis & John Coltrane to future stars Sunna Gunnlaugs & Terence Collie. | ||
| 12/05 | 17h00>18h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | The Early Music Show | Highlights from the 2023 London International Festival of Early Music, focusing on their support of young artists, with performances from the OAE Experience Ensemble and others. | ||
| 12/05 | 18h00>19h15 | (0xf0) ? | eng | Words and Music | Readings by Tamsin Greig and archive recordings of former poet laureate John Betjeman, who died 40 years ago, are set alongside music by Butterworth, Grieg and Flanders and Swan. | ||
| 12/05 | 19h15>20h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | Sunday Feature: Frank Johnson,... | ...Queen Victoria and the Black Brass Band. Uchenna Ngwe tracks down the remarkable story of an African American musical pioneer. | ||
| 12/05 | 20h00>21h30 | (0xf0) ? | eng | Drama on 3: Calmer | A visceral new drama about three generations of women in a chaotic world, from Olivier Award-winning writer Lolita Chakrabarti, starring Meera Syal. | ||
| 12/05 | 21h30>22h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | New Generation Artists | Chamber music recordings, including pianist Alim Beisembayev playing Haydn, and violinist Geneva Lewis teaming up with accordionist Ryan Corbett. | ||
| 12/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 12/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Unclassified | Join Elizabeth Alker and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a night of genre-defying new music featuring guest artists This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother. | ||
| 12/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Neapolitan Influences with the Chiave d'Arco Baroque Orchestra and director Sigiswald Kuijken. Jonathan Swain presents. | ||
| 13/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 13/05 | 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. | ||
| 13/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Elizabeth Alker showcasing the best performances from the UK and beyond, with a lunchtime concert from London's Wigmore Hall. | ||
| 13/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: Elizabeth... | ...Maconchy. 1/5. Maconchy explodes onto Britain's musical landscape, dazzling teachers, contemporaries and some influential gatekeepers. With Kate Molleson. | ||
| 13/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty meets American pianist Evan Shinners aka 'WTF Bach' to talk about his ambitious project to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard music. | ||
| 13/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. | ||
| 13/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Harry Bicket perform Nunes Garcia and Haydn, while baritone Julien Van Mellaerts joins them to sing Bach and Vaughan Williams. | ||
| 13/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Music in Bloom | Can music help plants to grow? | ||
| 13/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 13/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Rosie Frater-Taylor is Soweto's guest on our weekly feature, Flowers. | ||
| 13/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Mozart's 'Turkish' Violin Concerto, Grieg's Holberg Suite and Elgar's Introduction and Allegro at the 2023 Martisor International Music Festival in Chisinau. | ||
| 14/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 14/05 | 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. | ||
| 15/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: Elizabeth... | ...Maconchy. 3/5. Maconchy is forced to shift her priorities from music to the war effort. With Kate Molleson. | ||
| 15/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty meets the composer and playwright behind FANNY - a new theatrical comedy about Fanny Mendelssohn. | ||
| 15/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. | ||
| 15/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | Live at the Barbican Hall, London, The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, conducted by Harry Christophers, perform Monteverdi's splendid and dazzlingly inventive Vespers. | ||
| 15/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Music in Bloom | How have composers been inspired by gardens across the centuries? | ||
| 15/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Night Tracks | Hannah Peel presents an adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between. | ||
| 15/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Late night UK jazz presented by Soweto Kinch. plus a selection from Rosie Frater-Taylor. | ||
| 15/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bartók's first violin concerto, Dvorák's seventh symphony and his symphonic poem 'The Noon Witch'. | ||
| 16/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 16/05 | 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. | ||
| 16/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, recorded by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union. | ||
| 16/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: Elizabeth... | ...Maconchy. 4/5. Depressed and disenchanted, Maconchy is forced to contemplate her artistic choices and decide if it's time to make a change. With Kate Molleson. | ||
| 16/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty introduces live music from Ensemble 360 ahead of their performances at the 40th Sheffield Chamber Music Festival. | ||
| 19/05 | 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. | ||
| 19/05 | 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 in the May sunshine or enjoying a lie-in. | ||
| 19/05 | 12h00>13h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Private Passions | Michael Berkeley's guest is the physicist Harry Cliff, who works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in search of answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics. | ||
| 19/05 | 13h30>15h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Music Map | Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a musical landscape around Vivaldi's violin concerto Spring, listening in deeply to find sonic connections across time and space. | ||
| 19/05 | 15h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Choral Evensong | Live from Exeter Cathedral, with music by Howells, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Cecilia McDowall. | ||
| 19/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Jazz Record Requests | Alyn Shipton presents jazz records of all styles including classics from Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Sidney Bechet to modern sounds from the Jazz Defenders and Awen Ensemble. | ||
| 19/05 | 17h00>18h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | The Early Music Show | Hannah French searches for music with the power to balance the humours and transform the spirit, from Dowland's Flow, My Tears, to David's Harp, CPE Bach and Delalande. | ||
| 19/05 | 18h00>19h15 | (0xf0) ? | eng | Words and Music | From the skylark of Shelley, the bluebird of Charles Bukowski to the crows described by Evie Wyld, from Sally Beamish to Saint-Saens, we celebrate bird song in words and music. | ||
| 19/05 | 19h15>20h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | Sunday Feature: The Cello and... | ...the Nightingale. 100 years after a pioneering BBC outside broadcast, when cellist Beatrice Harrison duetted with a nightingale, Kate Kennedy examines Harrison's legacy and the first big radio hit. | ||
| 19/05 | 20h00>21h15 | (0xf0) ? | eng | Drama on 3: Maupassant's... | ...Confessions of a Hedonist. Elliot Cowan is Guy de Maupassant and Holli Dempsey his unsuspecting accomplice in this phantasmagorical journey through the author's most personal short stories. | ||
| 19/05 | 21h15>22h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | New Generation Artists | The Leonkoro Quartet play Schubert, and pianist Alim Beisembayev performs Beethoven. | ||
| 19/05 | 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. | ||
| 19/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Unclassified | To mark this year's Whitsunday, Elizabeth Alker presents contemporary experimental and ambient artists who have been finding new approaches to brass band and Morris traditions. | ||
| 19/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Hina Maeda joins the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra with conductor Thomas Sanderling. Jonathan Swain presents. |