behind the scenes

All posts on "Radio 3 Blog" by behind the scenes

• Small, Smaller, Smallest - 17:27 UK time, Thursday, 16 August 05
• Immersed in violas ... - 11:43 UK time, Monday, 19 March 11
• Notes from a composer, Part 12 - Endings - 11:38 UK time, Monday, 6 February 11
• Inside the BBC NOW Composers' Workshops - 12:11 UK time, Thursday, 2 February 12
• Notes from a composer, Part 11 - Bohortha - 16:38 UK time, Tuesday, 31 January 04
• The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in surround sound - 16:00 UK time, Wednesday, 21 December 04
• Concerts and Christmas markets with the BBC SO in Germany - 10:24 UK time, Friday, 9 December 10
• How to build a control room in 80 seconds ... - 16:22 UK time, Wednesday, 30 November 04
• Petroc Trelawny's Earth Music Bristol blog - 16:57 UK time, Tuesday, 22 November 04
• Notes from a composer, Part 8 - In the wilderness - 16:27 UK time, Tuesday, 8 November 04
• Ian McMillan's up with the larks at Free Thinking ... - 10:20 UK time, Sunday, 6 November 10
• Finnish, then, thy new creation - BBC Symphony Orchestra news - 17:30 UK time, Wednesday, 26 October 05
• Notes from a composer, Part 7 - Still Centre - 16:56 UK time, Thursday, 20 October 04
• Terry Gilliam directs Berlioz's Damnation of Faust on BBC 4 - 11:35 UK time, Friday, 14 October 11
• Notes from a composer, Part 4 - Lost Worlds - 10:19 UK time, Tuesday, 6 September 10
• Backstage with Petroc - 14:51 UK time, Wednesday, 24 August 02
• BBC Phil Japan tour ... sadness and stoicism - 12:39 UK time, Thursday, 7 April 12
• Goldie's Band - the Executive Producer's view - 11:01 UK time, Wednesday, 6 April 11
• On the trail of the New Generation Artists ... - 12:05 UK time, Wednesday, 6 October 12
• Waiting for the green light - 17:15 UK time, Thursday, 16 September 05
• The long and the short of the LNOTP - 15:08 UK time, Tuesday, 14 September 03
• Goethe's Faust - an entertainment?! - 12:35 UK time, Tuesday, 14 September 12
• Speech bubble ... - 15:51 UK time, Monday, 13 September 03
• Social Media - new ways to connect listeners - 16:56 UK time, Thursday, 9 September 04
• Bliss in Edinburgh - 13:19 UK time, Monday, 6 September 01
• Life after Cybermen with the National Orchestra of Wales - 15:10 UK time, Monday, 9 August 03
• Katie Derham plays second fiddle. - 14:46 UK time, Monday, 2 August 02
• Send for the Doctor! - 16:46 UK time, Monday, 26 July 04
• Creating the Proms Online Quiz - 17:12 UK time, Monday, 19 July 05
• PlayerCom debuts at the Proms - 13:28 UK time, Monday, 19 July 01
• Anchor's away! - 23:43 UK time, Saturday, 17 July 11
• Mahler 8 - the view from centre stage - 18:14 UK time, Saturday, 17 July 06
• The Proms, Mahler and me ... - 16:54 UK time, Friday, 16 July 04
• Out and About with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ... - 15:42 UK time, Wednesday, 14 July 03
• My Night with the Doge - 10:59 UK time, Monday, 12 July 10
• The Proms Archive - how did it get there? - 11:21 UK time, Wednesday, 7 July 11
• Juanjo named BBC Philharmonic chief conductor - 15:47 UK time, Monday, 5 July 03
• It's all good in Bad Kissingen - 15:43 UK time, Monday, 28 June 03
• Domingo says Z is for Zarzuela ... - 17:11 UK time, Thursday, 24 June 05
• Backstage at the Opera ... - 11:48 UK time, Thursday, 24 June 11
• Tea time - home time for the BBC Symphony Orchestra - 15:23 UK time, Friday, 28 May 03
• BBC SO in Taiwan - It ain't half hot, mum! - 14:47 UK time, Friday, 28 May 02
• Fry on Wagner - Behind the scenes - 17:18 UK time, Tuesday, 25 May 05
• On to China with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ... - 11:28 UK time, Monday, 24 May 11
• Buddha's birthday, and an upside down violinist ... - 11:49 UK time, Wednesday, 19 May 11
• First concert in Japan ... - 15:12 UK time, Monday, 17 May 03
• BBC Symphony in Tokyo - getting the lie of the land ... - 16:01 UK time, Thursday, 13 May 04
• BBC Symphony Orchestra takes to the skies ... - 10:39 UK time, Tuesday, 11 May 10
• Rob's thoughts on the Specialist Classical Chart - 15:29 UK time, Thursday, 22 April 03
• The show must go on ... - 15:30 UK time, Wednesday, 21 April 03
• Final countdown to the Proms launch ... - 11:14 UK time, Wednesday, 21 April 11
• Magic moments at the Barbican - 01:24 UK time, Monday, 12 April 01
• Sounds of Earthly Paradise - 20:07 UK time, Wednesday, 7 April 08
• Inside the BBC Symphony Chorus - 17:03 UK time, Thursday, 1 April 05
• Radio 3 presenters in focus - 16:23 UK time, Wednesday, 17 March 04
• Radio 3's Donald Macleod meets Stephen Sondheim - 12:13 UK time, Tuesday, 16 March 12
• Am I Drihming? - 10:20 UK time, Tuesday, 16 March 10
• Inside Total Immersion - Wolfgang Rihm - 17:07 UK time, Friday, 12 March 05
• Eroica Uncovered - 16:59 UK time, Monday, 22 February 04
• HAPPY HENZE DAY! - 16:41 UK time, Friday, 15 January 04
• Snow joke at Maida Vale - 23:43 UK time, Wednesday, 13 January 11
• Henze - A view from inside the BBC Symphony Orchestra - 14:35 UK time, Wednesday, 13 January 02
• A session with aspiring journalists from the Write Stuff - 10:30 UK time, Monday, 23 November 10
• The last night of the London Jazz Festival - 20:14 UK time, Sunday, 22 November 08
• A quick chat with Gwilym Simcock about The Voice Project - 18:47 UK time, Sunday, 22 November 06
• I caught up with jazz enthusiast Patrick outside the RFH - 17:50 UK time, Saturday, 21 November 05
• Bellatrix talks about how she got into world class beatboxing! - 17:48 UK time, Saturday, 21 November 05
• What the LJF audience thinks of Gilberto Gil ... - 17:08 UK time, Saturday, 21 November 05
• Meeting Helge Lien between sets at Pizza Express - 11:32 UK time, Saturday, 21 November 11
• Beatbox extravaganza at Charlie Wright's - 21:09 UK time, Friday, 20 November 09
• Cleveland Watkiss' 50th birthday celebration at the QEH - 14:26 UK time, Friday, 20 November 02
• Shlomo gives me a beatboxing masterclass - 13:50 UK time, Friday, 20 November 01
• What the audience thought of Branford ... - 17:05 UK time, Thursday, 19 November 05
• Natalie Williams chats about how she first got into jazz singing - 11:54 UK time, Thursday, 19 November 11
• I caught up with Emma Smith after her performance at Spice of Life - 11:19 UK time, Thursday, 19 November 11
• I caught up with John Surman after his Masterclass at the Royal Festival Hall - 12:20 UK time, Wednesday, 18 November 12
• I caught up with Carla Bley before the QEH gig to talk about how the Lost Chords first got going - 11:50 UK time, Wednesday, 18 November 11
• Festival On the Move with Brass Jaw - 11:54 UK time, Tuesday, 17 November 11
• I caught up with presenter Julian Joseph @LondonJazzFest - 10:29 UK time, Tuesday, 17 November 10
• Pete Churchill on rehearsals for Voicelab - 12:36 UK time, Monday, 16 November 12
• Conductor Andrew Gourlay and clarinettist Julian Bliss on the Benny Goodman centenary - 11:32 UK time, Monday, 16 November 11
• Ronan Guilfoyle from Metier tells me about the ensemble - 13:46 UK time, Sunday, 15 November 01
• Cary tells me about her spontaneous Polish jazz urge.. - 13:34 UK time, Sunday, 15 November 01
• I caught up with Sheila Jordan after her gig at Ray's Jazz - 21:32 UK time, Saturday, 14 November 09
• John Scofield on the opening night of London Jazz Festival - 10:00 UK time, Saturday, 14 November 10
• A Season in Hell ... - 12:07 UK time, Thursday, 12 November 12
• ENO Messiah Backstage - latest news - 15:31 UK time, Monday, 9 November 03
• Can you sing the Hallelujah Chorus? - 11:11 UK time, Friday, 30 October 11
• Graeme Kay's Free Thinking Blog - 16:43 UK time, Saturday, 24 October 04
• At last! Radio 3 synchronised opera surtitles ... - 23:05 UK time, Friday, 16 October 11
• Sir David Attenborough talks about his Last Night! - 14:53 UK time, Monday, 14 September 02
• The Last Night; The Morning. - 12:24 UK time, Saturday, 12 September 12
• Lewis talks about trombones and his Prom highlights! - 17:37 UK time, Friday, 11 September 05
• Erling is the leader of the #lastnightproms pack! - 17:23 UK time, Friday, 11 September 05
• The first roll call in the queue for the Last night of the Proms! - 17:00 UK time, Friday, 11 September 05
• Roger Wright talks about his day job and personal prom stats! - 21:42 UK time, Thursday, 10 September 09
• View from inside the hall... Vienna Philharmonic - 21:32 UK time, Thursday, 10 September 09
• View from the hall (shhhh): Prom 72 - 19:49 UK time, Wednesday, 9 September 07
• Composer Augusta Read Thomas talks about her writing process - 18:44 UK time, Wednesday, 9 September 06
• A quick chat with a performer and an audience member during the interval - 20:25 UK time, Tuesday, 8 September 08
• Birthday boy Sir Peter Maxwell Davies before Prom 70 - 19:31 UK time, Tuesday, 8 September 07
• Photo of the day: Prom 70 - 18:28 UK time, Tuesday, 8 September 06
• Photo of the day: Prom 69 - 18:42 UK time, Monday, 7 September 06
• Chris talks about his first prom anticipation! - 18:24 UK time, Monday, 7 September 06
• Black tie in the Q! - 19:38 UK time, Sunday, 6 September 07
• National Singing Ambassador Howard Goodall talks about SING UP! - 18:18 UK time, Sunday, 6 September 06
• View from the Choir: Proms Family Chorus! - 16:09 UK time, Sunday, 6 September 04
• Composer John McCabe explains the curious title of his Horn Concerto - 19:17 UK time, Saturday, 5 September 07
• View from the Q: Prom 67 - 19:02 UK time, Saturday, 5 September 07
• Photo of the day - 18:33 UK time, Saturday, 5 September 06
• I meet tonight's tuba player - 20:26 UK time, Friday, 4 September 08
• View from the Q: Prom 65 - 20:15 UK time, Friday, 4 September 08
• View from the Q: Prom 64 - 19:09 UK time, Thursday, 3 September 07
• Conductor Vladimir Jurowski talks about the experience of performing at the Proms - 18:56 UK time, Thursday, 3 September 06
• Photo of the day: 98 musicians distributed among the audience - 19:32 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 07
• Percussionist Colin Currie talks to me about Xenakis - 19:13 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 07
• View from the Q: Prom 63 - 19:01 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 07
• Lindsay Kemp sells Haydn to me - 10:17 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 10
• Photo of the day: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - 19:50 UK time, Tuesday, 1 September 07
• View from the Q: Prom 62 - 19:35 UK time, Tuesday, 1 September 07
• Pianist Ashley Wass talks to me about his sugar intake post-performance! - 19:53 UK time, Monday, 31 August 07
• Cellist Claudio Bohórquez tells me about his schedule - 17:46 UK time, Monday, 31 August 05
• Photo of the day: PCM16 at Cadogan Hall - 15:38 UK time, Monday, 31 August 03
• View from the Q: Prom 60 - 15:27 UK time, Monday, 31 August 03
• Proms Interactive Services - 08:27 UK time, Thursday, 27 August 08
• Marvin the engineer on tonight's Nyman Prom - 00:09 UK time, Wednesday, 26 August 12
• From the Radio 3 loggia - 23:26 UK time, Tuesday, 25 August 11
• The Q for Fidelio - 18:27 UK time, Saturday, 22 August 06
• Samara chats to the musical charity collectors - 20:16 UK time, Friday, 21 August 08
• Photo of the day: BBC Arabic filming a report - 18:58 UK time, Friday, 21 August 06
• View from the Q: Prom 48 - 18:03 UK time, Friday, 21 August 06
• View from the Q Prom 47: we're going in..! - 19:35 UK time, Thursday, 20 August 07
• Dr Berta Joncus talks about OTT audiences - 17:46 UK time, Thursday, 20 August 05
• View from the Q: Prom 46 - 06:45 UK time, Thursday, 20 August 06
• The Sleaford Uke Orchestra talk and play for us! - 12:03 UK time, Wednesday, 19 August 12
• Robert talks about his ukulele and his story! - 21:33 UK time, Tuesday, 18 August 09
• View from the Q: George and Anthony strike a pose... - 19:50 UK time, Tuesday, 18 August 07
• Jez, Alan, Meredith & Colin play and talk uke's! - 19:10 UK time, Tuesday, 18 August 07
• Iván Fischer talks to me about getting kids into music - 18:30 UK time, Tuesday, 18 August 06
• Photo of the day: Newsround does the Proms! - 20:06 UK time, Monday, 17 August 08
• Prommers get their groove on - 16:07 UK time, Monday, 17 August 04
• The Proms Family Orchestra gets ready for action - 22:09 UK time, Sunday, 16 August 10
• Sita Thomas talks to me about Bollywood dancing - 16:43 UK time, Sunday, 16 August 04
• Samara talks to Julia Barber about her piece - 19:57 UK time, Friday, 14 August 07
• View from the Q: Proms Plus 39 - 17:32 UK time, Friday, 14 August 05
• Proms: What the world says... - 11:10 UK time, Friday, 14 August 11
• Samara chats to fellow cellist Alban Gerhardt in the interval - 22:47 UK time, Thursday, 13 August 10
• Millicent Hodson talks to Samara about the riot at the Rite - 20:23 UK time, Thursday, 13 August 08
• View from the Q: Prom 38 - 20:10 UK time, Thursday, 13 August 08
• Samara chats to harpsichordist Ben Bayl before Prom 36 - 12:56 UK time, Thursday, 13 August 12
• View from the Q: Prom 36 - 17:45 UK time, Wednesday, 12 August 05
• View from the Q with Brett, Grahame, Stefan and Harry - 23:02 UK time, Tuesday, 11 August 11
• View from the Q: Prom 35 - 20:28 UK time, Tuesday, 11 August 08
• Proms Family Music Intro: how to play the scraper! - 19:34 UK time, Monday, 10 August 07
• PCM4 - percussion be gone! - 13:28 UK time, Monday, 10 August 01
• View from the Q: Prom 32 - 16:38 UK time, Sunday, 9 August 04
• The making of the Radio 3 piano duets video - 09:31 UK time, Sunday, 9 August 09
• View from the Q: Prom 31 - 19:59 UK time, Saturday, 8 August 07
• Zeb Soanes talks about his day and his evening to come! - 19:34 UK time, Friday, 7 August 07
• Composer Fraser Trainer talks to me about the composers competition! - 19:03 UK time, Friday, 7 August 07
• Jaffer, James and Lydia talk to me about their prom history! - 19:31 UK time, Thursday, 6 August 07
• Photo of the day: Prom 29 - 17:29 UK time, Thursday, 6 August 05
• I caught up with presenter Rob Cowan in the interval - 20:50 UK time, Wednesday, 5 August 08
• View from the Q: Prom 28 - 20:13 UK time, Wednesday, 5 August 08
• View from the Q: Prom 26 - 18:33 UK time, Tuesday, 4 August 06
• Music at the Museum - 17:46 UK time, Monday, 3 August 05
• Kara Vallow from Family Guy talks about tonight's Prom - 16:13 UK time, Saturday, 1 August 04
• Goldie and Ivor talk about writing the piece for today's Evolution Prom! - 13:41 UK time, Saturday, 1 August 01
• Photo of the day: Ethan meets Goldie - 13:33 UK time, Saturday, 1 August 01
• Ethan at the stage door of the Albert Hall, waiting for Barney Harwood! - 13:06 UK time, Saturday, 1 August 01
• Studio manager Chris Muir tells me what his job entails - 17:52 UK time, Friday, 31 July 05
• Photo of the day: arriving in style - 20:11 UK time, Thursday, 30 July 08
• Photo of the day: Composer Jörg Widmann on stage - 19:25 UK time, Wednesday, 29 July 07
• Tom Service talks to me about the links in tonight's concert - 19:05 UK time, Wednesday, 29 July 07
• Christopher Cook looks forward to tonight's Firebird - 00:15 UK time, Wednesday, 29 July 12
• The Royal Albert Hall post concert, all lit up - 23:35 UK time, Tuesday, 28 July 11
• The Fox family talk about the Proms and bassoons! - 18:56 UK time, Monday, 27 July 06
• Prom veteran Andrew tells me what he likes about the Proms Chamber Music - 14:09 UK time, Monday, 27 July 02
• Proms: The first week - 11:52 UK time, Monday, 27 July 11
• Jennifer Pike chats to Samara post concert - 15:54 UK time, Sunday, 26 July 03
• Imogen, Rhiannon and Leo look forward to their first Prom - 12:27 UK time, Sunday, 26 July 12
• Following the beat - 10:21 UK time, Sunday, 26 July 10
• 1st time prommer Johnny speaks in the first interval of Prom 12 - 20:39 UK time, Saturday, 25 July 08
• View from the Q - 20:35 UK time, Saturday, 25 July 08
• MaestroCam ahoy! - 22:53 UK time, Friday, 24 July 10
• Presenter Tom Service talks about the shō - 19:01 UK time, Friday, 24 July 07
• I saw a ghost... - 16:37 UK time, Friday, 24 July 04
• Backstage Audio from the RAH - 21:34 UK time, Thursday, 23 July 09
• BBC 4 Proms Guest Philip Sheppard talks to Peter Gregson - 17:06 UK time, Thursday, 23 July 05
• Samara interviews Tom Service - 21:46 UK time, Wednesday, 22 July 09
• Proms: Interview with Philippa Brownsword of the OAE - 18:53 UK time, Tuesday, 21 July 06
• Proms picture of the day: raining idents... - 17:52 UK time, Tuesday, 21 July 05
• Proms: Producer Emily Kershaw - 14:26 UK time, Monday, 20 July 02
• My weekend. - 09:57 UK time, Monday, 20 July 09
• Proms: Geoffrey Smith in the Production office - 12:34 UK time, Saturday, 18 July 12
• Petroc talks to Stephen Hough in the second half - 21:42 UK time, Friday, 17 July 09
• Petroc Trelawny speaking before In Tune - 17:11 UK time, Friday, 17 July 05
• Proms: The view from the Q - 16:53 UK time, Friday, 17 July 04
• Proms: Watch Petroc outside the Hall - 15:10 UK time, Friday, 17 July 03
• Follow the Proms on this blog every day! - 10:11 UK time, Friday, 17 July 10
• Roll on the first night! - 22:32 UK time, Thursday, 16 July 10
• One-work composers. - 09:17 UK time, Saturday, 11 July 09
• Exclusive online content for Opera on 3 - 15:28 UK time, Friday, 26 June 03
• Looking with our ears... - 04:30 UK time, Saturday, 20 June 04
• Filming of Radio 3 Haydn Concert - 06:53 UK time, Thursday, 18 June 06
• Poetry on the hoof - 21:29 UK time, Wednesday, 3 June 09