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The @bbcproms 2026: ✅
Thank you to every musician, everyone behind the scenes, our @RoyalAlbertHall colleagues and my amazing Proms and @BBCRadio3 team: the unsung heroes of this festival.
In a world often defined by division, music brings us together like nothing else 🎶
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Ever wondered what it’s like to descend from the top of a lighthouse? This is it!
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Much more to come this weekend from Brittin's first big interview in the job, after a few months of getting his feet under the desk
- how radical will he be as he tries to reinvent the BBC?
- the Trump-BBC case in Florida
- what is he watching on TV
- is the news fair?
Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says bbc.in/3V824ve
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Never seen a “western civilisation” politician in Britain do anything like this when they’ve had power, or propose it when they don’t have power
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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first lighthouse of the weekend - Smeaton’s Tower, Plymouth. Where the Light Shines @bbcradio3
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This will be a thing of loveliness. Travel with us to the lighthouse on Sat from 8am @BBCRadio3 The Welsh team are broadcasting live from beautiful Strumble Head #Pembrokeshire 2-4pm with @RealShanCothi - challenges include ‘how do we get a harp across a narrow footbridge...?’
This Saturday, @BBCRadio3 celebrates the lights that have guarded our shores for generations. We'll broadcast from atmospheric lighthouses, welcome guest musicians, and send @PetrocTrelawny to a mystery location via boat. What could possibly go wrong?! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031pv…
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Morning!! Improve your Thursday by tuning to @BBCRadio3 9.30. Starting with the Overture from Colas Breugnon, Goodall’s Lead, Kindly Light 💡 & in the Playlister: Paul Schoenfield’s Dog 🐶 Heaven 📻❤️👌🎹
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This October, 20 years since the release of Amy Winehouse’s seminal album Back to Black, BBC Music will celebrate her life and music with world exclusive programming
Learn more ➡️ bbc.in/4AkyTVI
ALT A silhouette of Amy Winehouse standing onstage beside a microphone, her hair piled high in a beehive up do, with strands trailing down her back.
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BBC Proms reports record-breaking audience figures - Gramophone gramophone.co.uk/content/new…
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This Saturday, @BBCRadio3 celebrates the lights that have guarded our shores for generations. We'll broadcast from atmospheric lighthouses, welcome guest musicians, and send @PetrocTrelawny to a mystery location via boat. What could possibly go wrong?! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031pv…
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Children who do music classes do significantly better in Maths, English and Science than those who don’t. They do so well, they’re about an academic year ahead by the time they reach their final year of school.
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It’s Hildegard of Bingen’s feast day. The perfect excuse to listen to the first episode of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music in which @GillianMoore10 & historian @MichaelWoodMV tell her story. And a proposed Playmobil figure…
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tdb…
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Just announced: a record-breaking season for the @bbcproms 🥳 🎶 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/b…
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Last Night of the Proms — Yuja Wang, Nicky Spence and Dolly Parton bring a glittering season to a close ft.trib.al/5jMckud
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6pm this evening, live on @BBCRadio3…
… and tomorrow 6pm at @HolySepulchreUK The National Musicians’ Church, an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of all involved, musicians, broadcasters, @RoyalAlbertHall staff team. Still a few places left hsl.church/events/proms-26 to join us in person or live on @BBCRadio3
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This promises to be unmissable: the marvellous @bbclysedoucet, in conversation with @MichaelBerkele2 on @BBCRadio3 at midday today — or any time after that on @BBCSounds. Private Passions is Pick of the Week in @thetimes:
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Here we go…! Follow along via the Last Night of the @bbcproms live page, courtesy of our brilliant @BBCNews colleagues: bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmew95v5…
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Great to be welcoming so many broadcasting colleagues from across the @EBU_HQ to the Last Night of the @bbcproms…
🎉 Vive en directo en @radioclasica la #LastNight de los @bbcproms de la @BBCRadio3. 🎹🎼
⏰️ Hoy, sábado, a partir de las 20h (CET).
🎙 Con la presentación de Clara Sánchez (@claraconlimon).
🔴 Directo 🎧👉 radioclasica.es/audio/
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Eighty-five down, just one to go. The Last Night of the @bbcproms 2026: live on @BBCRadio3 and @BBCTwo from 7.15pm, from the glorious @RoyalAlbertHall — a place we are so fortunate to call home, every single summer.
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