On Easter Monday Radio 3 devotes a whole day to a broadcast of Wagner’s Ring cycle. The cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, comprises four operas: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walkuere (The Valkyrie), Siegfried and Gotterdummerung (Twilight of the Gods). A stellar cast includes Anne Evans as Brunnhilde, Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried and John Tomlinson as Wotan. At the helm in this acclaimed Bayreuth recording is conductor Daniel Barenboim, who this year has been delivering the Reith Lectures.

The Ring starts at 8am and continues through until midnight.  There will also be a deferred start time for late risers, beginning at 10am.  [Thats 3 am and 5 am EDT]

More details here The Ring on BBC Radio 3

Cast list and Timings here
Schedule for Monday April 17th

In between each complete airing of each opera will be intermission features including interviews with Barenboim, Tomlinson, and Dame Anne Evans.  There is also a RING Limerick contest!

NEW -SURTITLES!! — with the live stream OperaText

An interesting and informative review
here which indicates in the quote below why this particular recording may have been chosen by the BBC for the first all day RING broad/webcast.

This 1991 Bayreuth Ring was notable for its remarkable
Anglophone cast; the singers involved included John Tomlinson, Anne
Evans, Graham Clark and Linda Finnie. So, whether or not you would
choose Barenboim’s Ring as your first choice, it has its own distinctive place in history.