In Tune Highlights

Jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal discusses starting out as a singer, coffee, her hero Ella Fitzgerald and the EFG London Jazz Festival. Includes Steve Wright's 'Jazz Factoids', featuring Sean Rafferty.

Conductor and harpsichordist William Christie on his passion for Handel, staging ballets by Rameau, and forming his Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants in 1979

Last week the London Jazz Festival began it's 22nd year with a host of concerts including one by jazz piano legend Abdullah Ibrahim, who peformed with his septet Ekaya as well as a brand new trio. Ahead of this concert, Abdullah joined Suzy Klein on the line to talk about his early days as a pianist, the music that influenced him most, and his thoughts on still performing at 80.

Violinist-turned-conductor Julian Rachlin is the Royal Northern Sinfonia's new Principal Guest Conductor, who believes "they qualify as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world".

Russian pianist Denis Matsuev aka 'The Siberian Bear' discusses performing and touring with the LSO and Valery Gergiev, taking risks in performance and his love of jazz

Singer and pianist Jamie Cullum discusses the making of his new album 'Interlude' and his London Jazz Festival highlights

Sardinian jazz singer Filomena Campus joins Suzy Klein in the studio to talk about her new album Scaramouche and this week's residency at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. She also performed two songs with fellow Sardinian accordionist Antonello Salis.

Conductor Sir Mark Elder discusses learning to love Vaughan Williams, the importance of quiet time and libraries when preparing to perform a work, the evolving sound of the Halle Orchestra and spending this winter with La boheme in Paris. Live from Manchester Central Library.

Baritone Simon Keenlyside talks to Suzy Klein about his new CD of classic American (and West End) show songs, 'Something's Gotta Give', recorded with Scarlett Strallen and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Conductor and composer Carl Davis talks to Suzy Klein about the upcoming performance of Last Train to Tomorrow at the Roundhouse. It commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransport through a song cycle performed by Finchley Children's Music Group.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to singer and pianist Joe Stilgoe, who performed songs by himself as well as Noel Coward. the Beach Boys, and even a tiny bit of Pachelbel on the show.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to New Generation Thinker and historian Alun Withey, who talks about the fascinating history of beards and their standing in society.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to Karen Armstrong, one of the world’s leading thinkers about religion. Karen gave this year's the Free Thinking Lecture, arguing that, in the current global situation, a recognition of how little we know is the only way to peace.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to Turkish author Elif Shafak, who gave an interview at the Free Thinking Festival about imagination and storytelling as she publishes her new novel The Architect’s Apprentice.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to Lord Falconer, the former Lord Chancellor and Chairman of the Sage Gateshead. Lord Falconer talks to Sean about the Sage's continued success 10 years after opening and the similarities between his own stint as lord chancellor and that of Gilbert & Sullivan's lord chancellor in Iolanthe.

In Tune was live from the Sage Gateshead to kick off Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival, with Sean Rafferty speaking to a number of musicians and speakers from across the weekend. In this podcast Sean talks to popular children's author David Almond, who talks about why his writing appeals to both children and adults, and he reads an extract from his novel A Song for Ella Grey.

Tenor Mark Padmore and composer/pianist Thomas Larcher on the differences between music education in England and Austria, working together on Larcher's 'Padmore Cycle' and new music

Baritone Jonathan Lemalu from New Zealand and pianist Audrey Hyland perform live in the In Tune studio and discuss 'Songsmiths', a project founded by Audrey Hyland herself and featuring a number of talented up and coming opera singers. The duo perform alongside counter tenor Christopher Ainslie and mezzo soprano Anna Huntley at St John's Smith Square on Sunday 2nd November.

Choreographers Wayne McGregor and Alex Whitley talk to Sean Rafferty about their new work set to music by Thomas Ades opening at Sadlers Wells on 30 October.

Violinist/Conductor Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth discuss their UK tour with the Canadian Arts Centre Orchestra in memory of Canada's contribution to WW1, and about being married and how the Brahms Double Concerto was a sort of love letter between them