Star line-up confirmed for Dolly Parton tribute at Last Night of the Proms The final show will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday The Independent UK · Sep 10
Last Night of the Proms to feature star line-up for Dolly Parton tribute The final show will take place at the Royal Albert Hall with a programme honouring the country superstar who died aged 80. Evening Standard · Sep 9
Humphrey Burton, renowned arts broadcaster, dies at 94 Former BBC head of music and arts hailed as ‘huge influence on generations of arts programme-makers’ The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2025
Chineke! Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall review: full of easy-going charm 4/5 This 10-year anniversary concert of the orchestra’s founding shows there’s plenty to look forward to in the next decade Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025
Writers and actors urge BBC to scrap ‘catastrophic’ plan to axe Radio 3 drama BBC’s decision to scrap drama Radio 3 called ‘short sighted’ by writers The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2025
Peter Dickinson obituary Composer, academic and broadcaster who focused on American experimental music and pioneered the teaching of jazz in Britain The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2023
The King attends special concert featuring music from his coronation Charles attended the event, organised by Wigmore Hall, at St James’s Roman Catholic Church, in London, on Tuesday evening. The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2023
Female conductors to open and close BBC Proms for first time Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop among 10 women conducting in 2023 season as festival moves towards gender equality The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2023
Kit Hesketh-Harvey obituary Writer, broadcaster and half of the renowned cabaret act Kit and the Widow The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2023
In a world of formulaic stations, BBC Radio 3 is fun Letters: It has many hidden gems, writes Gillian Reynolds, from jazz, folk and world music shows to new dramas. Plus letters from Meirion Bowen and Emma Tristram The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2023
On my radar: Elizabeth Alker’s cultural highlights The Radio 3 broadcaster on a composer’s inspired garden, oil paintings of motorway bridges and a magical local pub The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2023
Share your views of BBC Radio 3 We’d like to hear your views about BBC Radio 3 The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2022
BBC to air rediscovered work by ‘one of greatest composers of African descent’ BBC Philharmonic will premiere composition by Nathaniel Dett described as ‘throwback to music of west African slaves’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022
Young North East singers offered chance to perform in live BBC Proms concert at Sage Gateshead this summer Hitting the right note - recruitment drive seeks 16 to 30-year-olds for new choir Voices of the River's Edge to sing in a BBC Proms first Chronicle Live · Apr 29, 2022
Bristol Post · Apr 26, 2022 BBC Proms concert to be staged in Bristol for the first time There will be a limited number of discounted tickets released on the morning of the concert
The Independent UK · Apr 11, 2022 Emeli Sande hopes BBC music show allows people time out from ‘hectic chaos’ She is hosting a new show which sees her exploring music that inspires her.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2022 Groundbreaking female composer’s lost madrigals to be heard for first time in 400 years Maddalena Casulana’s newly discovered songs will feature on BBC Radio 3 to mark International Women’s Day
Chronicle Live · Feb 17, 2022 Tyneside to host debut BBC After Dark Festival with dawn to dusk music After Dark Festival will launch in March and play out over the Spring Equinox weekend in Newcastle and at Sage Gateshead