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The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Sunday Night is Music Night: Malta Festival

Malta Festival

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Malta Festival

Charles Dance presents a special edition celebrating the movie magic of Malta.

Actor Charles Dance celebrates the movie magic of Malta. With star singers Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones) Louise Dearman (Wicked) and Bradley Jaden (Les Miserables).

Malta is a major Mediterranean movie star. Over a hundred spectacular films have been shot there including  Popeye, The Da Vinci Code, Midnight Express, Troy, The Spy Who Loved Me, Never Say Never Again and Gladiator.  It's ancient Mdina has also famously served as a principal location for the sensational, Game of Thrones. Tonight's concert, recorded as part of the Malta Festival in the Granaries Floriana, with the seventy piece BBC Concert Orchestra, is conducted by Richard Balcombe. It features  music from movies made on Malta as well as including other classic film scores, Out Of Africa and The Magnificent Seven, James Bond and Casablanca together with some of today's most popular film songs from The Greatest Showman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Frozen and Mary Poppins Returns. All of this, and a spectacular fireworks finale to the Main Title from Star Wars. With guest vocalists Louise Dearman (Wicked); Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones) and Bradley Jaden (Les Miserables). Presented by Charles Dance.
Recorded in July 2019 and first broadcast in September that year.

Photo: Daniel Balzan

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