Five O’Clock Favorite
Every weekday at 5:00 PM PT
Every weekday at 5:00 PM PT, All Classical Radio and host Christa Wessel invite listeners to be part of the programming. During the Five O’Clock Favorite, you’ll hear a listener-suggested piece of music along with a personal story about their choice. With pieces that are fun and familiar, music for remembrance and reflection, and everything in between, the Five O’Clock Favorite is a perfect way to ease your commute, end your workday, or start off your evening soundtrack on All Classical Radio.
Your Host
Christa Wessel
Weekdays at 5:00, you’ll find me in my happy place on the radio: sharing your Five O’Clock Favorite. This special program is an opportunity for me to celebrate listeners’ memories and favorite pieces of classical music. Our stories connect us to each other, and this daily segment allows us to hear what’s in the hearts of our friends and neighbors. I hope you’ll submit your suggestion for a future Five O’Clock Favorite!
Submit your favorite piece:
Suggestions are easiest to honor if they’re 20 minutes or less.
The seeds of a love for classical music were sown in me by the BBC in the late fifties and early sixties while I was playing hooky from school to avoid a mathematics test. Feigning some fictional illness I lay on the sofa and pretended to watch on our black and white television the Schools program on BBC-TV. The programming was really patchy and the BBC played classical music in the intervals between presentations. They played a lot of Ravel, Debussy, Prokofiev, and early twentieth century composers. Ravel’s Menuet Antique is the one piece that can transport me as if in a time machine to 1961 and my Mother’s couch.