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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2008

Broadcasting the Proms

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms is available to the widest possible audience via ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio, Television and online.

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• All Proms broadcast live on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  
  
• All Proms streamed live online and available on-demand for seven days
  
  
• Many Proms-related programes on Radio 3 to complement the season
  
  
• Regular weekly broadcasts on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two for the first time in addition to regular weekly broadcasts on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four providing an easily navigable Proms schedule on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV
  
  
• ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer extends viewing opportunities with all televised concerts available to watch for seven days after transmission

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For the first time ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two has a regular weekly presence at the Proms throughout the season, broadcasting many of the outstanding moments at primetime every Saturday night, in addition to its coverage of the first and last nights.

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This regular pattern on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two offers a mixture of complete concerts and selections from the season's most eagerly anticipated performances, and celebrates such events as Nigel Kennedy returning to the Proms after 20 years, anniversaries including the HallΓ© and Vaughan Williams, and to resurrect the Proms concept of Beethoven Night, with plenty of insight and background to the music and musicians featured.

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four also offers audiences a consistent pattern of concerts across the season, with Proms concerts every Sunday and Monday evening for seven weeks with a change of pattern mid-season to include a pair of concerts given by two of the world's greatest conductors – Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.

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Most of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four programmes are live from the Royal Albert Hall, though some of the most sought-after concerts of the season, including Sir Simon Rattle with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the World Music Celebration, which fall on other days of the week, will also be recorded for future broadcast during the season ensuring audiences have the chance to see, as well as hear, the best the season has to offer.

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For the first time the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer will enable audiences to watch all televised Proms for seven days after the original broadcast. All ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two transmissions will also be available on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ HD TV in 5.1 surround sound for the first time, extending viewing opportunities even further.

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One continues its long-standing coverage of the second half of the last night of the Proms and is recording the Doctor Who Prom for broadcast later in the year.

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Red button services for digital TV viewers (satellite, cable and Freeview) continue with detailed background notes on each concert. On the last night of the Proms, audiences can choose between live relays of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms In The Park concerts from around the country by pressing the red button.

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All ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms are broadcast live on Radio 3. Listeners can hear repeat broadcasts of most concerts each weekday in Afternoon On 3. ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Chamber Music concerts are broadcast live from Cadogan Hall and repeated the following Saturday (2.00pm) and the four ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Composer Portraits are broadcast on the same day of recording, after the evening's Prom.

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All Proms are streamed live online at bbc.co.uk/radio3 and available on-demand via the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ iPlayer for seven days after the broadcast.

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The new Proms Plus events, which take place daily at the Royal College of Music, present new ways to put the broadcast concerts in their wider musical and cultural contexts.

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Many of the introductory events – talks, interviews and panel discussions – will be recorded and edited for broadcast on Radio 3 during the interval of the concert which follows. Others will be available online afterwards at bbc.co.uk/proms – the first time pre-concert events have been offered to audiences in this way.

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For the first time, Radio 3's In Tune programme will come from the Royal College of Music in front of a live Proms audience on the opening night, and regular programmes with Proms-related content across the station will enhance the Proms experience for listeners.

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There will be artist interviews, features and Proms news on programmes such as In Tune, performers and composers joining presenters at concerts, previews in breakfast, discussions of relevant recordings by Proms artists or of Proms repertoire in CD Review and more.

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Listeners to Radio 3 via DAB digital radio will be able to view "now playing" details. The season is also available to listeners throughout Europe, North America and across the world via the European Broadcasting Union, as well as online via the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms website.

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The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms website continues to be the primary source for the most up-to-date information about the programme of concerts and events, artists and repertoire, also inviting audiences to participate in debate by submitting their own reviews and joining the lively discussions on the message board.

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Online users are offered a wealth of background on the unique history of the world's greatest music festival and unprecedented insight into the season. Listeners can access detailed notes about the music featured in each evening's concert, available one hour before each concert, complementing the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms broadcast experience.

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The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms will once again create a special WAP site for the season enabling users to access information via their mobile phones, including listings, updates, booking and broadcast information.

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Broadcast listsings

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms are broadcast live on Radio 3 and online, and additonal events are as follows:

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• ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Chamber Music concerts are broadcast live on Radio 3 on Mondays at 1.00pm and repeated the following Saturday at 2.00pm.
  
  
• ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Composer Portraits will be broadcast on Radio 3 immediately after that evening's Prom (see Proms Plus for details of Composer Portraits). Throughout the season on Radio 3, programmes will feature Proms-related material.
  
  
• Proms Preview Evening (Thursday 17 July, 7.00–8.45pm) Petroc Trelawny previews the season's programme, plus interviews with selected Proms performers and composers.
  
  
• In Tune (weekdays, 5.00pm–start of Prom) features interviews, performances and news surrounding the Proms season, presented by Sean Rafferty including In Tune's first live on-location outside broadcast on the first night (Friday 18 July, 5.00pm)
  
  
• Breakfast (weekdays, 7.00–10.00am; weekends, 7.00–9.00am) – Rob Cowan, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Martin Handley present music and updates on the season.
  
  
• Summer CD Review (Saturdays, 9.00am–12noon) Andrew McGregor features new releases and re-issues from artists and orchestras appearing at the Proms.
  
  
• Classical Collection (Monday–Friday, 10.00am–12noon) Sarah Walker and James Jolly present their favourite recordings of works featured throughout this year's Proms.
  
  
• Afternoon On 3 (weekdays, 2.00pm–5.00pm) will include repeat broadcast of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms concerts.
  
  
• Twenty Minutes Talks and features broadcast in the intervals of evening Proms, some of which will be drawn from the new Proms Plus events.
  
  
• Artist Focus (most weekdays, 10.30–11.00pm) will explore music by selected artists featured across the season.

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A special programme will be devoted to this year's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms Inspire Young Composers' competition and will be broadcast on Radio 3 between the two Proms on Friday 8 August.

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Television

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two (and High Definition TV)

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18 Jul	First night of the Proms (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO/BΔ›lohlΓ‘vek)	Live
26 Jul	Nigel Kennedy Night (Proms 2 & 3)	Recorded
2 Aug	HallΓ© 150th anniversary (Prom 16)	Recorded
9 Aug	ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ CO/The King's Singers (Proms 31 and 26)	Live/Recorded
16 Aug	Great Conductors – Barenboim and Boulez (Proms 38 & 40)	Recorded
23 Aug	National Youth Orchestra/Pappano (Prom 49)	Live/deferred
30 Aug	Vaughan Williams anniversary (Prom 54)	Recorded
6 Sep	Beethoven (Proms 15 & 62)	Recorded
13 Sep	Last night, part one (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Norrington)	Live

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four

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20 Jul	Folk Night	Live
21 Jul	Messiaen/Saint-SaΓ«ns – Latry; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Chung	Live
27 Jul	Messiaen – ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Fischer	Live/deferred
28 Jul	Beethoven/Elliott Carter – ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Robertson	Live
3 Aug	Beethoven/Mahler – ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SSO/Runnicles	Live
4 Aug	World Music Celebration (part one)	Recorded
10 Aug	The King's Singers	Recorded
14 Aug	West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim	Live/deferred
15 Aug	JanÑček – ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Boulez	Live
17 Aug	City of London Sinfonia/ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers/Hickox	Live
18 Aug	World Music Celebration (part two)	Recorded
24 Aug	JS Bach St John Passion – Gardiner	Live/deferred
25 Aug	Prokofiev/Tchaikovsky – RPO/Gatti	Live/deferred
31 Aug	Lang Lang recital	Recorded
1 Sep	Beethoven/Sibelius – Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester/Davis	Live/deferred
7 Sep	Brahms/Shostakovich – Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle	Recorded
8 Sep	Turnage/Mahler – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Haitink	Live

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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ One (and High Definition TV)

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13 Sep

Last night, part two (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Norrington)

Live

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