Now that summer holidays and days at the seaside are over, sit back at home, put your feet up and listen to the bands.
Gerald Harrison introduces BBC2's own brass band knock-out competition from the Assembly Rooms, Derby. Round 1:
Halls Oxford Concert Brass, currently London and the South
Champions, conducted by MICHAEL
BRAND, play against Carlton Main
Frickley Colliery Band from
Frickley , Yorkshire, conducted by DENZIL STEPHENS.
Soloists: Emma Taylor , playing the flugelhorn for Halls Oxford
Concert Brass, and Roger Webster , playing the cornet for Carlton
Main Frickley Colliery Band, compete for the viewers' Sovereign Award.
Special guest supporters Richard Whitmore and Harry Gration
Judges: LT-COL TREVOR L. SHARPE , MVO, OBE, and BERNARD KEEFFE
Lighting JOHN ALLINSON Sound NEIL MURRAY
Designer MICHAEL YOUNG Producer KEN GRIFFIN