BBC Radio 3 Friday 24 August 2012

Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, the English National Opera, conducted by Edward Gardner, performs one of the greatest of all English operas - Britten's Peter Grimes. 7.00pm - Act 1

8.00 Twenty Minutes: The Captain's Apprentice. Roy Palmer explores the history of the traditional song; a revision of his 2008 talk.

8.20 Britten: Peter Grimes - Act 2
9.15 Twenty Minutes: Suffolk Sounds. Nature writer Simon Barnes talks about the sounds of his beloved Suffolk coast that inspired Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
9.35 Britten: Peter Grimes - Act 3