From the Radio 3 loggia

The fancy boxes at the Royal Albert Hall aren't called boxes. They're called loggias and in one of them (number 2, in fact), packed so tightly that there's barely room for producer and engineer, is Radio 3's 'gallery', the control room for all of the Proms transmissions and recordings. I squeezed into loggia 2 tonight to eavesdrop on the production of tonight's late Prom and made a short recording of the proceedings. You'll hear tonight's producer Roland Taylor and various other BBC people talking into their walkie-talkies from other tight corners of the Hall in the final countdown to the performance: