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Paul Gambaccini returns with the 30th anniversary series of the perennial music quiz, with questions ranging across every musical genre.

Whether your interest is in the Baroque, opera, choral music, the romantic symphony, the golden age of Hollywood, traditional and modern jazz, film music and TV themes or the rock and pop greats of the past fifty years, there's always something in Counterpoint to suit your taste. In this series 27 competitors from around the UK will be showing off the breadth of their musical knowledge, as well as hoping for some specialist questions that suit their expertise. After the knockout rounds, three of them will end up in the Final, which will come from the 2016 BBC Proms to mark the programme's 30th birthday.

This year's first heat comes from the BBC's Maida Vale studios and features music lovers from Essex, Kent and Lancashire.

Producer: Paul Bajoria. Show less