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BBC Proms 2004: Preview Night

on BBC Radio 3

Stephanie Hughes and Andrew McGregor look forward to the new Proms season, which begins on Friday, with Proms director Nicholas Kenyon. And, live in the studio, members of the Britten Sinfonia play music reflecting this year's key themes: East/West, Back to Bohemia and England at the Crossroads: 1934.
Features include, at approximately:

7.40 A competition to win Prom tickets.

7.50 Britten Sinfonia play Rimsky-Korsakov.

8.00 A visit to the Silk Road Exhibition at the British Library with its curator Susan Whitfield.

8.30 What's new on the Proms website and on digital radio.

8.45 An almanac of 1934, with Sarah Lenton.

9.30 John Birch, curator of the Royal Albert Hall organ, talks about its new restoration.
(See Performance on 3 on Wednesday at 7.30pm)

9.50 Nicholas Kenyon answers listeners' questions.

10.00 Britten Sinfonia play Janacek.

10.15 Christopher Cook explores Bohemian art at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

To submit competition entries and questions to Nicholas Kenyon, Text: [number removed] email: [email address removed] Phone: [number removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Presenter:
Andrew McGregor
Producer:
Edward Blakeman
Interviewee/Proms Director:
Nicholas Kenyon
Musicians:
Britten Sinfonia
Presenter (Silk Road Exhibition):
Susan Whitfield
Presenter (An Almanac of 1934):
Sarah Lenton
Speaker/Organ Curator:
John Birch
Presenter (Bohemian Art):
Christopher Cook

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