text: With Rob Cowan. Including an excerpt from the recording of Ravel's Sheherazade recommended on yesterday's Summer CD Review. Music also includes:
  Katharine, Duchess of Kent, who has devoted much energy to the cause of music education, is Michael Berkeley 's guest on the 500th edition of the programme. Her own musical passions include Bach, Chopin, Saint-Saens, Faure, Bryn Terfel singing You'll Never Walk Alone, and Dido singing Thank You.
  Antonio Vivaldi composed nearly 500 concertos, and in a live and interactive edition of the show, Lucie Skeaping asks listeners to suggest their favourites.
  Czech mezzo Magdalena Kozena and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform songs by Ravel, Britten, Debussy, Strauss and Shostakovich. Recorded in the Queen's Hall last Friday and introduced by Stephanie Hughes.
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor designate contributes to this season's fairy-tale theme with fellow Czech Novak's allegorical take on Hans Christian