The BBC has announced that it has a sustainable plan for the future of the BBC Singers, in association with The VOCES8 Foundation.
The threat to reduce the staff of the three English orchestras by 20% has not been lifted, but it is being reconsidered.
See the BBC press release here.
RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 3
Unofficial Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 3 — supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/
| A Teasdale | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:03:40 | Duration | Link | |
| August Kleinzahler | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:08:16 | Duration | Link | |
| Carol Ann Duffy | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:56:06 | Duration | Link | |
| Emily Dickinson | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:00:25 | Duration | Link | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:24:27 | Duration | Link | |
| John Burnside | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:16:28 | Duration | Link | |
| John Clare | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:08:08 | Duration | Link | |
| Mark Doty | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:36:01 | Duration | Link | |
| Mark Strand | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:43:38 | Duration | Link | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:18:03 | Duration | Link | |
| Qabbani | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:29:18 | Duration | Link | |
| Seamus Heaney | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:02:45 | Duration | Link | |
| Ted Hughes | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:12:27 | Duration | Link | |
| Walt Whitman | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:29:18 | Duration | Link | |
| William Blake | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:04:00 | Duration | Link | |
| Wordsworth | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:01:03 | Duration | Link | |
| Antonín Dvořák | Adagio (Symphony no 8) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:17:26 | Duration | Link |
| Benjamin Britten | Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus (Op.27) 9:40 | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Charlie Parker's Reboppers (artist) | Once upon a summertime | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:25:51 | Duration | Link |
| Claudio Monteverdi | Vespro della Beata Vergine [1610] - Lauda, Jerusalem [7 voices & bc] | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:57:53 | Duration | Link |
| Felix Mendelssohn | A Midsummer night's dream - incidental music (Op.61) | Discovering Music | 2008-06-08 | 17:00 | Duration | Link | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt - overture (Op.27) | Discovering Music | 2008-06-08 | 17:00 | Duration | Link | |
| Felix Mendelssohn | The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) - overture (Op.26) | Discovering Music | 2008-06-08 | 17:00 | Duration | Link | |
| George Frideric Handel | Jephtha - Act 2 [no.50]; How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees [chorus] | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| George Gershwin | Summertime | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:04:51 | Duration | Link |
| Gerald Finzi | In five-score Summers | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:46:07 | Duration | Link |
| Gustav Mahler | po di Menuetto (Symphony no 3) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:08:08 | Duration | Link |
| Heinrich Schütz | Musikalische Exequien (SWV.279-81) - Part 3; Herr nun lassest/Selig sind (SWV.281)[2 ch. & | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Jean Mouton | Nesciens mater virgo virum for 8 voices | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Joan Baez (artist) | Never dreamed you'd leave in summer | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:05:23 | Duration | Link |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Cantata no. 20 (BWV.20) "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort" | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Johannes Brahms | Ein Deutsches requiem (Op.45) - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Johannes Brahms | Liebeslieder - [18] waltzes for pf duet & 4 vv ad lib. (Op.52) - no.8; Wenn so lind dein A | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| John Cage | Summer (The Seasons) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:37:46 | Duration | Link |
| Judith Weir | Sumer is i-cumen in (Themes and Variations) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:01:49 | Duration | Link |
| Manuel de Falla | Danza Lejana - Nights in the Gardens of Spain | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:30:45 | Duration | Link |
| Modest Mussorgsky | Tuileries (Pictures at an Exhibition) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | Duration | Link | |
| Olivier Messiaen | Les Orioles (Des Canyons aux Etoiles) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:18:17 | Duration | Link |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | The Water Mill | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:09:05 | Duration | Link |
| Stephen Sondheim (artist) | Night Waltz (A Little Night Music) | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:53:17 | Duration | Link |
| Thomas Morley (artist) | O griefe, even on the bud for 5 voices [1597a] | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Toru Takemitsu | Rain Tree Sketch II | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 01:12:57 | Duration | Link |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro - opera in 4 acts (K.492) End of Act 3: andante amici | Choir and Organ | 2008-06-08 | 18:30 | Duration | Link | |
| Zoltán Kodály | Summer Evening | Words and Music | 2008-06-08 | 22:15 | 00:47:51 | Duration | Link |