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A live Proms edition of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s In Tune, presented by Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein – with interviews and live performances from artists appearing this season.

‘Unlocking the Mysteries of Music in Your Brain’: Neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin explores the fascinating relationship between music and the mind.

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Join Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of the Barbican and former Director of the Proms, discusses the history of the festival.

HK Gruber discusses the world premiere of his percussion concerto 'into the open …', with Christopher Cook

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Hugh Wood, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of 'Epithalamion' and introduces performances of his chamber works, with musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

Tom Service explores Beethoven's writing for the piano, with Misha Donat and David Owen Norris.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

German culture experts Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain on the great German Romantic poetry that inspired Beethoven throughout his life, from Schiller’s 'Ode to Joy' to Goethe’s 'Egmont' and Treitschke’s 'Fidelio'.

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Join Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof.

Award-winning actor Henry Goodman and director and designer Antony McDonald discuss the enduring appeal of the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof - one of the most successful in Broadway history.

In conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes looks back over his four-year project with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and discusses Beethoven's piano concertos.

Composer Steven Price, who won an Oscar for 'Gravity', discusses the ways in which Holst's Planets Suite is still inspiring film composers to make an 'other-worldly' sound. New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon presents.

David Nice and Fiona Noble delve into the life of Prokofiev and his five piano concertos with Petroc Trelawny.

In 1915 Ezra Pound published 'Cathay', a collection of poems translated from classical Chinese. The poets Jo Shapcott and Sean O'Brien discuss what have been called poems of 'a supreme beauty' with Rana Mitter.

150 years after 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' became a publishing sensation the writer Lynne Truss and children's novelist Philip Ardagh discuss its enduring appeal with, Anne McElvoy.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Tom Service explores the historical context of Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony, with Marina Frolova-Walker and David Fanning.

Erik Levi discusses the relationship between Bruckner’s Mass in F minor and the Viennese tradition of sacred music, with Xabier Armendáriz and Tom Service.

As Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony is played from memory, actress Lisa Dwan, who has performed Samuel Beckett’s monologues, and musician soprano Susan Bullock, discuss the role of memory in performance.

Join Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Verdi’s Requiem.

1895 was a critical year for Oscar Wilde. New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari explores this tumultuous year with Philip Hoare, the author of 'Oscar Wilde's Last Stand' and Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson and co-editor of his Complete Letters.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts an introduction to Monteverdi's Orfeo, with guests Sarah Lenton and David Vickers.

J. P. E. Harper-Scott and David Matthews offer some insights into Walton's Symphony No.2 in the context of twentieth century British music, with Petroc Trelawny.

Marina Frolova-Walker and William Mival discuss Scriabin's *The Poem of Ecstasy* and the world of the composer. Martin Handley presents.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Join Christopher Dingle and Peter Hill to explore the life and works of Olivier Messiaen with patriclar focus on the newly orchestrated *Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui)*, in conversation with Christopher Cook.

Novelists Helen Dunmore and Louise Welsh discuss DH Lawrence's 'The Rainbow', first published 100 years ago, an exploration of the effect of industrialisation on pastoral life.

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Jazz historian and broadcaster Alyn Shipton, explores swing music and its influences, with guests Catherine Tackley and Harvey G. Cohen.

Marking the 90th Birthday year of the eminent composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, Julian Anderson and Nicolas Hodges survey his life and career, in conversation with Tom Service.

Petroc Trelwany delves into Messiaen's mammoth Turangalîla-Symphonie with guests Nigel Simeone and Caroline Rae.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, former director of the Proms and author of the Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart, introduces Mozart's 'The Abduction from the Seraglio',with Karl Lutchmayer and Louise Fryer.

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As we launch our complete symphonic cycle, explore Sibelius’s symphonies and their historical context with Charlotte Ashby and Stephen Johnson. Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents.

1895, the year of the first Proms concerts, the National Trust was founded with the aim of saving the nation's heritage and open spaces. The Trust's Director Dame Helen Ghosh and the nature writer Patrick Barkham discuss its history with Anne McElvoy.

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Tim Jones and Roderick Swanston explore the nature of the piano concerto in the context of Mozart’s own examples, with a focus on the Piano Concerto No. 22. Ian Skelly presents.

The Danish-born historian and lecturer Lars Tharp and the writer on children's literature Julia Eccleshare explore the work and legacy of Hans Christian Andersen with Ian McMillan.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

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In 1895, the year the Proms began, the pioneering Lumière Brothers developed their Cinématographe, the world’s first motion-picture film camera. Film historian Ian Christie discusses how film became an art.

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A look at the organ works of J.S Bach and his influence on later composers with Daniel Hyde and Berta Joncus. Ian Skelly presents.

Gerard McBurney offers an introduction to Shostakovich’s unfinished opera 'Orango', whose Prologue he has orchestrated, with Marina Frolova-Walker. Tom Service presents

In the centenry of Nielsen's birth, Christopher Cook looks at the differing compositional styles present in his concertos with guests Mikkel Zangenberg, Daniel Grimley and tonight's soloist Emily Beynon.

Rachel Beckles Willson offers an insight into Bartók’s 'Concerto for Orchestra' and discusses the life and work of the Hungarian composer, with Gavin Plumley and Ian Skelly.

Alissa Firsova, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of Bergen’s Bonfire and introduces performances of her chamber works.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra perform the winning pieces of the 2015 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition.

Daniel M. Grimley and Andrew Mellor explores Sibelius’s choral symphony 'Kullervo' and its influences, in conversation with Martin Handley.

Michael Gunton, Executive Producer of 'Life Story', and Murray Gold, who composed the music, describe their work on the much acclaimed series.

Ian Skelly looks at the work of the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with their principal trombone Timothy Higgins and former Head of Artistic Planning, John Mangum.

Your chance to perform on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall. Join professional musicians to create a celebration of 20th-century American music.

Willa Cather’s 'The Song of the Lark' was first published 100 years ago. Cather’s biographer Dame Hermione Lee discusses the novel.

Nicholas Baragwanath and Gavin Plumley explore the musical styles of Brahms's era and how this affects present-day performances of the composer's works, in conversation with Martin Handley.

Founded in 1895, the London School of Economics shares its 120th anniversary with the Proms. Professor Michael Cox explores the key events in the history of the university founded by the Fabians to promote greater equality.

B Tommy Andersson, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses the world premiere of 'Pan' and introduces performances of his chamber works.

Playwright David Hare discusses his forthcoming memoir 'The Blue Touch Paper'.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Join Rebecca Lodge and other members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to explore the choral works of Bernstein.

Andrew McGregor explores the stage and screen music of Leonard Bernstein, with Jamie Bernstein and Nigel Simeone.

Join Mary King, members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra to sing excerpts from Carl Orff’s 'Carmina burana'.

So rarely performed in full, Christopher Cook takes the chance to explore Carl Orff's cantata 'Carmina burana' with Graham Lack and Tony Palmer.

Shahidha Bari traces the history of the 'One Thousand and One Nights', the collection of stories and folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan and poet Kate Clanchy introduce the winning entries in this year’s ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Poetry Competition – and welcome some of the winners on stage to read them.

Andrew McGregor investigates Charles Ives's 'Symphony No.4' in the context of his life, with guests Richard Bernas and Stephen Montague.

Informal late-night music and poetry, featuring young talent.

Gavin Plumley and Erik Levi discuss the life and work of Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, including his Symphony No.2, in conversation with Martin Handley.

Join Proms Director, Edward Blakeman, and Chris Cotton, Chief Executive of the Royal Albert Hall, as they look back over the 2015 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms season.

Prepare for the Last Night of the Proms singalong with Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers.