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

Join Mary King and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. Experience in sight-reading or a knowledge of the piece is an advantage but not essential.

Proms Lecture: Four years after the spectacular opening of the London Olympics, writer of the Opening Ceremony, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, reflects on the cultural legacy of the Games.

Join Mary King and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Fauré’s Requiem with musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Tom Service presents a live edition of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s The Listening Service, exploring the way music takes us to altered states of mind and spirit.

Marking the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, her biographer Claire Harman and Yorkshire-born novelist and author of Chocolat Joanne Harris discuss her life and work.

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

Ahead of tonight’s performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, this first in a series of archive film screenings features Myra Hess’s 1954 Celebrity Recital.

Composer, director and translator Jeremy Sams introduces Poulenc’s Stabat mater.

Join Stephanie Jordan, Dance Research Professor at the University of Roehampton, for an introduction to tonight’s Strictly Prom.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry featuring emerging UK talent. Featuring The Southern Cone Quintet.

This year marks the centenary of the death of the great American writer Henry James, who visited and fell in love with Italy at the age of 26. Novelist and Henry James expert Philip Hensher reflects on his writing.

Join Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing the famous spirituals from Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.

Tippett expert Oliver Soden introduces A Child of Our Time and discusses the life and work of the composer.

Join professional musicians to create your own music inspired by Ten Pieces II.

Continuing our series of archive film screenings, pianists Solomon (1956) and Claudio Arrau (1960) perform works by Beethoven (Piano Sonatas in F minor, Op. 57, ‘Appassionata’, and in C minor, Op. 111) and an Impromptu by Schubert.

Ahead of Glyndebourne’s performance of The Barber of Seville, New Generation Thinker Alun Withey and historian Kathryn Hughes contemplate the role and politics of shaving in 18th- and 19th-century Europe.

Learn to scratch with world champion DJ Mr Switch.

Composers in Conversation: Anthony Payne, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year, discusses his new work, Of Land, Sea and Sky, and talks about his influences and inspirations; with live performance and discussion.

In the first of a series of talks about Shakespeare and aspects of professional life examined in his plays, Colonel Tim Collins OBE and Professor Emma Smith discuss the depiction of soldiers and war in Shakespeare’s work.

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

In the second event focussing on Shakespeare and aspects of professional life, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon, Richard Chartres, Bishop of London and Professor Ewan Fernie from Birmingham University discuss the place of the Church and clergymen in Shakespeare.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry featuring emerging UK talent.

In the 50thanniversary year of Bernard Haitink’s first appearance at the Proms, join us for a screening of his 1987 Prom with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.

Join Mary King and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet.

Ahead of the performance of Berlioz’s 'Romeo and Juliet', readings of Shakespeare and his Elizabethan contemporaries.

Join professional musicians to create your own music inspired by this afternoon’s Prom.

Continuing our exploration of the ways in which Shakespeare portrayed aspects of professional life, Geoffrey Robertson QC talks about the law and lawyers. With readings from Bill Paterson

Veteran sailor Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to circumnavigate the world non-stop single-handedly, talks about the sea, shipwrecks and sea captains depicted in Shakespeare’s plays.

Novelist Patricia Duncker and New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, discuss George Eliot, her travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries.

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

In an introduction to Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, musicologist Heather Wiebe discusses the story behind the music and the life and work of the Hungarian composer.

A literary accompaniment to tonight’s Prom, with readings from some of the leading German Romantic poets who inspired Brahms.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry, featuring emerging talent. With Snowpoet and poet Holly Corfield Carr

Composers in Conversation: Helen Grime introduces the first part of her new two-part commission, Two Eardley Pictures, and talks about her inspiration and ideas.

Join Hannah Kendall in picking apart new music from one of today's most exciting composers, Helen Grime

Ahead of Holst’s The Planets, novelist Stephen Baxter examines the work of science-fiction writer H. G. Wells, born 150 years ago.

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this afternoon’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

Jamie Cullum shares his song-writing skills and expertise from behind the piano.

Eva Schloss, step sister of Anne Frank, reads from her memoir about surviving the Holocaust, After Auschwitz, and talks about the fate of Anne and other children during the Second World War, to whom Dutilleux’s The Shadows of Time is dedicated.

A unique opportunity to play alongside Guy Johnston in a one-off cello ensemble.

Musicologist J. P. E. Harper Scott introduces Elgar’s First Symphony.

French music specialist Caroline Rae introduces Dutilleux’s Timbres, espace, mouvement and discusses the life and work of the composer.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry featuring emerging UK talent.

Author and musicologist Jan Smaczny introduces DvoΣák’s Seventh Symphony and discusses the life and work of the composer.

Laura Tunbridge offers an insight into Brahms’s Fourth Symphony in the context of the other works in tonight’s programme.

Join professional musicians to create your own music inspired by this evening’s Prom.

Join Edward Price and members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to explore some of the most famous songs by lyricist Ira Gershwin.

Edward Seckerson introduces the music of tonight’s Gershwin Prom.

Charlotte Bray discusses her new work 'Falling in the Fire'.

The Aurora Orchestra performs the winning pieces of the 2016 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition.

Musicologist John Deathridge discusses Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.

Composers in Conversation: Colin Matthews, 70 this year, discusses his *Berceuse for Dresden* and talks about his influences and inspirations.

Musicologist Barbara Eichner explores Wagner’s writing for the orchestra.

What is it like to perform Shakespeare? And how does the playwright portray the profession he knew best? Actor and director Michael Pennington discusses Shakespeare on stage.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry, featuring emerging talent.

Nigel Simeone introduces Janá∂ek’s opera The Makropulos Affair.

Join Mary King and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers to sing excerpts from Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Experience in sight-reading or a knowledge of the piece is an advantage but not essential.

Timothy Jones introduces Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this afternoon’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

The Herdwick Shepherd, James Rebanks, talks about his profession as depicted in Shakespeare’s plays and how it has changed over 400 years. He is joined on stage by Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University.

Conductor Jules Buckley introduces the music of tonight’s Prom.

Join pianist Gabriela Montero to explore the wonderful world of improvisation.

Ahead of tonight’s performance of Rachmaninov’s *Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Rev. Richard Coles and poet Imtiaz Dharker discuss the Devil in Christian and Islamic cultures.

Learn to arrange like a pro with Jules Buckley and a band of professional musicians.

Arthur Nestrovski, Artistic Director of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, discusses the life and work of the orchestra.

Composers in Conversation: Emily Howard joins us ahead of the world premiere of her new work ‘Torus’, exploring her influences and inspirations, with live performance and discussion. With musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry, featuring emerging talent.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon introduces Mozart’s Requiem and the mythology around the music.

Spend an afternoon creating music with members of Multi-Story: the resident orchestra at Bold Tendencies multi-storey car park in Peckham.

Writer Rosamund Bartlett discusses Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

Continue your CBeebies family adventure at the Proms and join in our range of activities from arts and crafts to music and dance. You never know, your favourite CBeebies character might even pop in to say hello!

Strauss expert William Mival introduces the epic 'An Alpine Symphony'.

Continue your CBeebies family adventure at the Proms.

As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs at the Proms, novelist Philip Kerr and historian Karen Leeder talk about East and West Germany.

Broadcaster and journalist Stephen Johnson introduces Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and discusses the life and work of the composer.

Tonight’s Prom features a setting by Zemlinsky of ‘The Gardener’ by the great Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

In celebration of the cello at this summer’s Proms, join us for a special screening of Paul Tortelier’s 1964 masterclass on Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C major for solo cello.

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry featuring emerging UK talent.

Counterpoint – The 2016 Final. Paul Gambaccini chairs the Grand Final of the much-loved ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 music quiz, with amateur music-lovers from around the UK answering questions on a wide variety of music to decide who takes the trophy for 2016.

Nicholas Baragwanath introduces Brahms’s Second Symphony.

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

Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this afternoon’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

Musicologist Roger Parker introduces Rossini’s final Italian opera.

On the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, historian Anna Pavord talks about his work and legacy.

On this day 350 years ago the capital was in ruins after the Great Fire of London. Historian Adrian Tinniswood describes the massive clearing-up operation, and talks to New Generation Thinker Thomas Charlton of Dr Williams’s Library.

Ahead of tonight’s concert, writer and broadcaster Gavin Plumley talks about the life and work of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the orchestra’s place in German culture. Edited version broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 during tonight’s interval

Georgia Mann presents informal late-night music and poetry featuring emerging UK talent.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 presenter Ian MacMillan, award-winning poet Jackie Kay and Director of The Poetry Society Judith Palmer introduce the winning entries in this year’s ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Poetry Competition and welcome some of the winners on stage to read their poems.

Join Director of the Proms David Pickard and Chris Cotton, Chief Executive of the Royal Albert Hall, as they look back over the 2016 Proms season.

As the 2016 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms season draws to a close, join us for an edition of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3’s The Choir, featuring a celebration of the centenary of Parry’s Jerusalem, with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.