| Day | Hour | Type Event | Name Lang | Event name | Short Event | Extended Lang | Extended Event |
| 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. | ||
| 14/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Fiona Talkington showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, specially recorded by the BBC, the European Broadcasting Union and BBC New Generation Artists. | ||
| 14/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: Elizabeth... | ...Maconchy. 2/5. Maconchy faces some harsh realities as she leaves college and seeks to launch her career. With Kate Molleson. | ||
| 14/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty is joined by the Reverend Richard Coles and conductor Sofi Jeannin to talk about their upcoming concert with the BBC Singers. | ||
| 14/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | An engaging mix of classical music for half an hour, featuring Bruckner's third symphony, as well as chamber music by Milhaud and Mozart. | ||
| 14/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Domingo Hindoyan play Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Roussel's Bacchus and Ariadne Suite and the new Piano Concerto by Eleanor Alberga. | ||
| 14/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Music in Bloom | Are there stylistic similarities between classical music and gardens through the ages? | ||
| 14/05 | 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. | ||
| 14/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Brand new UK jazz with Soweto Kinch, alongside gems from around the world. | ||
| 14/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Ádám Fischer conducts Mozart and his favorite Bartók work with Danish Chamber Orchestra. Jonathan Swain presents. | ||
| 15/05 | 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. | ||
| 15/05 | 09h30>13h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Essential Classics | Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. | ||
| 15/05 | 13h00>15h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Fiona Talkington showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, recorded by the BBC, the European Broadcasting Union and BBC New Generation Artists. | ||
| 15/05 | 15h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Choral Evensong | Live from Exeter Cathedral, with music by Howells, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Cecilia McDowall. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 17/05 | 06h30>09h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Breakfast | Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's award-winning classical breakfast show, featuring the Friday poem. Email your requests to 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk. | ||
| 17/05 | 09h30>13h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Essential Classics | Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, featuring new discoveries, some musical surprises and plenty of familiar favourites. | ||
| 17/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Elizabeth Alker showcasing the best performances from the UK and beyond, with music by the BBC New Generation Artists. | ||
| 17/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week: Elizabeth... | ...Maconchy. 5/5. As she reaches retirement age, Maconchy admits that 'composing is a life sentence'. With Kate Molleson. | ||
| 17/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty is joined by guests in the studio for live performance and to mark Mental Wellbeing Season. | ||
| 17/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical favourites. | ||
| 17/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Friday Night is Music Night | Ben Palmer conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert from Saffron Hall featuring film and classical music on the theme of flying. Presented by Katie Derham. | ||
| 17/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Music in Bloom | Are music and gardens good for your health and wellbeing? | ||
| 17/05 | 22h00>23h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Late Junction | Jennifer Lucy Allan serves up 90 minutes of ear-bending sounds for adventurous listeners, from psychedelic dirges, electronic odes to nightingales, and poetic reflections on loss. | ||
| 17/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Chelsea Carmichael recorded in 2023 at the Pori Jazz Festival in Finland, performing tracks from her debut album, The River Doesn't Like Strangers. | ||
| 17/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | RAI National Symphony Orchestra perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony no 6, conducted by Robert Treviño. Presented by Jonathan Swain. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 20/05 | 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. | ||
| 20/05 | 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. | ||
| 20/05 | 13h00>16h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Live | Presented by Linton Stephens, including Monday's live Wigmore Hall recital plus exclusive recordings of chamber and orchestral music from Germany and South Korea. | ||
| 20/05 | 16h00>17h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Composer of the Week:... | ...Rimsky-Korsakov. 1/5. Donald Macleod surveys the life and music of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. | ||
| 20/05 | 17h00>19h00 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | In Tune | Sean Rafferty meets choreographer Maguy Marin to talk about her latest project inspired by Samuel Beckett at Sadler's Wells. | ||
| 20/05 | 19h00>19h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Classical Mixtape | The Classical Music Mixtape: featuring the soaring voice of Jessye Norman, music from eccentric composer Moondog, and a piece inspired by an ancient Scandinavian herding call. | ||
| 20/05 | 19h30>21h45 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Radio 3 in Concert | The Engegård Quartet plays Mozart's Quartet in C, K 465 Dissonance , and Quatuor Voce play Mozart's Quartet in A, K 464 and Haydn's Quartet No 62 in C, Op 76 No 3 Emperor . | ||
| 20/05 | 21h45>22h00 | (0x20) news current affairs (general) | eng | The Essay: Art and Uncertainty | How can art help us deal with uncertainty in our own lives? Margaret Heffernan explores how artists embrace uncertainty as a key part of the creative process. | ||
| 20/05 | 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. | ||
| 20/05 | 23h30>00h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | 'Round Midnight | Presented by British saxophonist Soweto Kinch and reflecting the rich history of jazz. | ||
| 20/05 | 00h30>06h30 | (0x30) show game show (general) | eng | Through the Night | Violinist Vilde Frang joins German Symphony Orchestra and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 plus Brahms's Symphony No 2. Jonathan Swain presents. |