Late Junction

Introduced by FIONA TALKINGTON.

FIONA TALKINGTON unveils KTU: Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen's latest collaboration with Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson, along with Samuli Kosminen. And there are songs from JOHN TAMS and from Parisian artist Eglantine Gouzy, as well as ARVO PART's latest release, Lamentate.

David Sylvian talks to FIONA TALKINGTON who plays songs from his new album Snow Bourne Sorrow; plus John Fahey's The Waltz that carried us away and then a Mosquito came and ate up my Sweetheart; Polish singer Maya Kleszcz; and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz.

FIONA TALKINGTON returns with music from the Christian Wallumrod Ensemble recorded at the Spitz in London, plus tracks from Bill Bruford, Sweet BILLY PILGRIM, and a Cat's Love Song from Vladiswar Nadishana.

VERITY SHARP presents Night soundscapes from composer Paul Lansky; introspective acoustic arrangements by Berlin based FS Blumm and the Yugoslavian Gypsy Brass Band.

Music from three very different singers from America: Mahalia Jackson, Precious Bryant and Lisa Germano. Plus, the rich fusion of Acoustic Ladyland. Presented by VERITY SHARP.

VERITY SHARP features the Californian one-man acoustic outfit Six Organs of Admittance; Bjork's film score to 'Drawing Restraint 9'; and classic Congolese rumba from the 1960s.

VERITY SHARP presents songs from Seattle-based Laura Veirs, a former geologist; Beethoven played by pianist Alfred Brendel; and Armenian love songs played by Djivan Gasparyan on the duduk, the country's national instrument.

VERITY SHARP with music from the Scottish Highlands and Islands played by the group Dòchas. Plus new material from Smog, and a Hindu devotional song, or Bhajan, by the Indian master Ajoy Chakrabarty.

VERITY SHARP presents a tribute to Blind Willie Johnson by guitarist Martin Simpson, and Gorecki's Totus Tuus in a new recording by The Sixteen. Plus, laments by the Greek clarinettist Petroloukas Chalkias recorded in the mountains of Epirus, and Russian singer Elena Frolova with the songs of Marina Tsvetaeva.

VERITY SHARP with the extraordinary diatonic accordion playing of Norbert Pignol, and songs from BRIAN ENO's imminent new release Another Day on Earth. Plus the brilliant Vietnamese musician Trân Quang Haï plays the Jew's Harp, and Iranian group Jahle perform a lullaby recorded on the Persian Gulf.

Ballak? Sissoko plays the West African kora, Amjad Ali Khan plays the Indian sarod, and Roy Bailey sings The Four Loom Weaver. Plus 18th-century English organ music from the church of St Matthew's Westminster.

Introduced by VERITY SHARP.

VERITY SHARP features the Breton harp of Alan Stivell, the Spanish harp of ANDREW LAWRENCE King and the South Indian mandolin of U Shrinivas.

VERITY SHARP features music by LOUIS ANDRIESSEN played by Italian ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi and Bach's unaccompanied violin music performed by Helene Schmitt.

Introduced by VERITY SHARP. Christopher Riley plays piano versions of songs by Radiohead, Antonello Salis plays his own tunes on a prepared piano, and Gai Toms sings a Welsh ballad.

VERITY SHARP's late night mix includes the Soweto Gospel Choir, the qawwali singing of Asif Ali Khan and tracks from Osaka Bridge; a Bill Wells and Maher Shalal Hash Baz collaboration.

Live from the Fruitmarket in Glasgow, VERITY SHARP hosts a special programme of words and music reflecting the range of Radio 3's output over the last 60 years. With live music from The Perfect Houseplants and I Fagiolini. Plus specially-commissioned poetry to mark the anniversary.

VERITY SHARP spotlights music from the icon of German electronic music, Hans Joachim Roedelius. Plus Avocet, from BERT JANSCH's 1978 album, and EJ Moeran performed by the Maggini String Quartet.

VERITY SHARP presents music by BENNY GOODMAN, Sufjan Stevens, and tracks from MARTIN CARTHY and Dave Swarbrick's new album Straws in the Wind.

Featuring the addictive collages of The Books, the unmistakable voice of Michael Hurley, music by Monteverdi and - from the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan - Tengir Too. Presented by VERITY SHARP.

VERITY SHARP presents selections from the artist formerly known as Chris Clark; Scarlatti played by Murray Perahia; and a collaboration between John Renbourn and ROBIN WILLIAMSON. Plus, music from the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble.

Shaheera Asante's selections include new music from Czech violinist and vocalist Iva Bittova, plus thinking songs from the Central African Republic. Also Bartok's Three Hungarian Folksongs from the Csik District, for solo piano.

Shaheera Asante features music from Hamburg-based ensemble Elbtonal Percussion, plus Sudanese vocalist and oud player Abdel Karim El Kabli. There's also a recording of GAVIN BRYARS' Alaric I or II for saxophone quartet.

Featuring Nigerian highlife from Victor Olaiya and Cardinal Rex Lawson; an archive harmonium improvisation by Greek-Armenian mystic GI Gurdgieff and CHRIS WATSON's recording of an Icelandic glacier. Presented by Shaheera Asante.

Shaheera Asante introduces music from Malian duo Amadou and Miriam, Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrod - plus Alice Coltrane's 1970 recording Journey in Satchidananda featuring saxophonist Pharoah Sanders.

A wide-ranging selection of music from off the beaten track, including Indonesian gamelan music , melhoun music from Morocco, and electronics from Christian Fennesz.

VERITY SHARP with an eclectic selection of tracks, including the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Irish banjo virtuoso Eamonn Coyne, and Pakistani qawwali singers Sher Ali and Mehr Ali.

VERITY SHARP introduces music including trumpeter Jon Hassell with guitarist RY COODER, Kenyan musician Kakai Kilonzo, and traditional Iranian music.

VERITY SHARP presents music from the distinctive Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia, dirt-road breakbeat blues from Buck 65, and new recordings of English songs by MARTIN CARTHY.

FIONA TALKINGTON spotlights György Ligeti's Artikulation for electronics; while his son, percussionist Lukas Ligeti, joins up with guitarist Raoul Bjorkenheim. Plus music recorded at JazzBaltica in the Salzau Palace Gardens in Germany, and by Harold Budd.

FIONA TALKINGTON features music from Australian band The Necks, and a version of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel for clarinet and piano. Plus L'Arpeggiata perform music by 17th-Century Italian composer Giovanni Kapsberger.

FIONA TALKINGTON celebrates STEVE REICH's 70th birthday; plus music from accordionist Markku Lepisto and singer Maria Joao.

FIONA TALKINGTON returns with sounds from a new album by multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus, plus Toru Takemitsu's elegant In an Autumn Garden for gagaku orchestra. Pianist Keith Jarrett plays Shostakovich and Kraftwerk pay homage to Schubert.

Music from upcoming Senegalese singer Daby Balde; the piano of Tord Gustavsen, plus a visit to the extraordinary sound world of sampling experimentalists The Books. With VERITY SHARP.

Keith Jarrett plays Bach, and the latest from Indonesia's SambaSunda, taking the gamelan orchestra into the 21st Century. With VERITY SHARP.

VERITY SHARP's selection includes a look back at the career of Spanish virtuoso guitarist Paco de Lucia, mbira thumb piano music from Zimbabwe, and the miniature masterpieces of Moondog.

VERITY SHARP features music to celebrate the father of minimalism STEVE REICH's birthday; plus tracks from the latest AfroCelt Sound System album.

VERITY SHARP's selections include male voice choral music from Georgia, piano music by Henry Cowell, latin jazz from Eddie Palmieri and his Orchestra, and ARVO PART's Pilgrim Song.

FIONA TALKINGTON meets shakuhachi player Clive Bell in the studio and plays Thorson and Thurber in a new recording of Adrian Jack's Oriental.

FIONA TALKINGTON celebrates Late Junction's 5th birthday with ARVO PART's Tabula Rasa. Plus echoes of the first programme, including Catherine Lambert in Machaut's Puis qu'en oubli.

ROBERT SANDALL features instrument builder Ellen Fullman and her Long String Instrument; guitarist and bluesman Kelly Joe Phelps; and music for two violins by B?la Bartók.

ROBERT SANDALL introduces Georgian polyphony from the Rustavi Choir and Bang on a Can's arrangement of BRIAN ENO's Music for Airports. Plus, the late piano works of Brahms and a studio collaboration between electronics duo Spring Heel Jack and minimalist rock band Low.

ROBERT SANDALL's selections include tracks from JONNY GREENWOOD's solo album Bodysong, Cuban bolero from Teresa Vera and Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, and Electric Counterpoint by STEVE REICH.

ROBERT SANDALL introduces FRANK ZAPPA compositions arranged for violin and piano, plus a live recording by the accordion and reeds duo of Richard Galliano and Michel Portal. There's also music from the Rabindra Sangeet, the body of songs left by RABINDRANATH TAGORE.

VERITY SHARP introduces Brazilian Seu Jorge performing ELVIS PRESLEY, and more off-kilter cover versions from Cat Power and Trio Sonnerie with chamber music from 17th-century England.

Ensemble Organum singing plainchant and early polyphony from the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany, the nimble fingerwork of Dutch harpsichord virtuoso Gustav Leonhardt, and LA-based composer Akira Rabelais found sounds and field recordings of traditional Icelandic acapella laments.

VERITY SHARP introduces a session from Nickel Creek, a trio from California who draw on their bluegrass roots, but get creative with their acoustic line up of guitar, mandolin, bass and violin.

Plus, music from Cape Verde, and a treat from DJ Food's 1999 album Kaleidoscope.

Fiona Talkington introduces award-winning group Kwadrofonik who play improvisations on Polish folk music, plus music from Yann Tiersen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Messiaen.

Fiona Talkington introduces Finnish choir Ketsurat, music from Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakomoto, and throughout the week she'll be featuring zither music and French chansons.

Verity Sharp presents.

Plus the latest offering from Waterson Carthy.

With Fiona Talkington.

Fiona Talkington introduces the latest from multi-talented Norwegian Stian Carstensen and his new CD Backwards into the Backwood, plus soundtrack music by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou, written for Theo Angelopoulos's new film The Weeping Meadow.

Verity Sharp with whispered song from Burundi, the piano music of Craig Armstrong, ambience from Russia courtesy of Stanislav Kreitchi and the Ensemble Cl?ment Janequin performing 16th century vocal music by Frenchman Claudin de Sermisy.

Fiona Talkington's selection for late night listening tonight includes fretless electric bass from the instrument's originator, Jaco Pastorius, the latest from guitarist Bill Frisell, fado and flamenco from the Iberian peninsular, and reb?tica from Greece.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Plus, Verity Sharp dips into the music of the winners of Radio 3's Awards for World Music, which were announced on Saturday.

Music from Pernamabuco and Venezuelan guitarist Jos? Ismael Querales, and Gregorian chant mingles with the deeply spiritual music of North India as sitar player Ustad Nishat Khan meets Ensemble Gilles Binchois.

There's also a lullaby from Afghanistan, more from Matt Sweeny and Bonnie Prince Billy's new album Superwolf, and the final part of Dhafer Youssef's BBC commission recorded at November's London Jazz Festival.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Verity Sharp introduces Canadian electro-acoustic music from Gilles Gobeil and guitarist Ren? Lussier, film music by Quincy Jones, and music for player piano by Belgian composer Godfried-Willem Raes.

Verity Sharp presents electroacoustic music from Canadian harpsichordist Yves Beaupr?, extracts from Miles Davis Jack Johnson sessions, and Corsican polyphonic singing from Trio Soledonna.

Introduced by Shaheera Asante.

the Cretan folk musician Vasilis Skoulas, and a sinfonia by Bernardo Pasquini played by the early music group Arcadia.

With Verity Sharp.

Introduced by Verity Sharp.

Ballak? Sissoko plays the West African kora, Amjad Ali Khan plays the Indian sarod, and Roy Bailey sings The Four Loom Weaver. Plus 18th-century English organ music from the church of St Matthew's Westminster.

This programme features the turn of the storming Norwegian largeband Jaga Jazzist. Plus a look back at the music of Simon Jeffes, founder of the Penguin Café Orchestra.

This programme features the turn of the storming Norwegian largeband Jaga Jazzist. Plus a look back at the music of Simon Jeffes, founder of the Penguin Caf? Orchestra.

Plus Gavin Bryars' new versions of medieval Italian Laude performed by Anna Maria Friman and John Potter, along with some Bulgarian wedding music from Trifon Trifonov's saxophone.

Plus the blues from Taj Mahal and the Harp of New Albion from Terry Riley.

Plus Bach from Maria Joao Pires and the laptop duet Sala Santa Celilia by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz.

Plus a meeting of the Pontic lyra of Matthaios Tsahourides and the Persian kamancheh of Ardeshir Kamkar with the percussion of Hussein Zahawy.

Verity Sharp's selections include Senegalese group Orchestra Baobab, American troubador Jim White and a recording of Poème ?lectronique, by Edgard Varèse.

Verity Sharp's selections include music by Ensemble Bash, Greek reb?tika master Markos Vamvakaris and a performance of Le Tombeau pour Marais le Cadet, by Marin Marais.

Verity Sharp presents music for the Virgin Mary from Tomas Luis de Victoria and Eleanor McEvoy, piano music by Louis Andriessen and songs and tunes from the Bourbonnais region of mid France, performed by La Chavann?e.

The programme also features Bernard Herrmann's depiction of New York's sleazy underbelly, composed for the film Taxi Driver, and music from revolutionary pop star-turned-Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil. With Verity Sharp.

Plus, music from Cape Verde, and a treat from DJ Food's 1999 album Kaleidoscope.

Presented by Verity Sharp.

Verity Sharp features the kora of Ballak? Sissoko; Consort music for viols, lutes and theorbos by William Lawes and music from Philip Glass's multicultural Orion project.

Introduced by Fiona Talkington.

Plus Klezmer Madness from David Krakauer and Socalled; and the Tord Gustavsen Trio recorded at this year's London Jazz Festival.

Presented by Fiona Talkington. French music for Remembrance, including Jean Langlais' Chant de Paix and Maurice Durufl?'s Pie Jesu from the Requiem.

Plus choral music by Christopher Fox, and music from Louis Moholo's 1978 Octet featuring Evan Parker and Keith Tippett.

Plus 13th Century cantiagas by Alfonso X El Sabio; Pharoah Sanders' epic spiritual journey The Creator Has a Master Plan, and Wibutee - recorded at this year's London Jazz Festival. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

The fusion of traditional West African sounds with Gregorian Chant also feature - from the Keur Moussa Monastery in Senegal.

Members of the Irish band Altan join Yasukatsu Oshima for a new take on traditional Okinawan songs. The Kronos Quartet plays Kevin Volans' String Quartet No 6, music by clarinettist Georg Reiss and traditional Greek bagpipes from Thrace.

Plus a week of poetry by Ronni Smith begins, especially commissioned by Radio 3.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Plus electro-acoustic composer Robert Nomandeau, and a clavichord recording by Thurston Dart.

There's also more from Dhafer Youssef's album Divine Shadows, released this week.

Mark Russell's selections include Sufi music from Pakistan, 12th-century polyphony by L?onin, and Morton Feldman's 'Last Pieces' for solo piano.

Plus, studies for prepared piano by John Wolf Brenann, and a field recording of workers singing in a tobacco-grinding factory in the Dominican Republic.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

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Introduced by Verity Sharp.

Plus, Hello England - a collaboration between Senegalese star drummer Cheikh Lô and Birmingham-based band Kumbengo.

Plus, Cheiko Mori plays the Japanese koto and Robert Jarvis paints another landscape in electronic sound.