The OG music festival — running since 1895, still slapping harder than your Spotify algorithm.
73 minSeason 79 • Episode 26
LatestClaudia Winkleman hosts a spine-tingling concert full of dramatic tunes and asks a packed Royal Albert Hall audience to help find the hidden traitors. With surprise guests.
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
Direction
Seamless camera work capturing 5,000+ people losing their minds to Mahler.
Production
Royal Albert Hall acoustics that make your cheap earbuds weep.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Proms pioneered 'promenading' — standing room tickets for a shilling, deliberately breaking elite concert conventions. Class warfare but make it Baroque.
The famous Last Night of the Proms is technically the same concert series, just with more Union Jack waving and Rule Britannia chaos. The BBC tried to tone it down in 2020. Britain said absolutely not.
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