Diverse musical offerings

The season’s diverse offerings include:

• BBC Sport Prom (20 July)
  Against the backdrop of the World Cup and Commonwealth Games, the Proms brings together the worlds of sport and music in the first ever BBC Sport Prom. Presented by Gabby Logan and featuring classical music associated with sport and TV themes, the Proms will be broadcast simultaneously on both BBC Radio 3 and, in a festival first, BBC Radio 5 Live in its 20th-anniversary year
  
  
• Pet Shop Boys (23 July)
  Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – better known as electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys – open the 2014 Late Night series in a programme combining new orchestral arrangements of some of their most personal songs with the world premiere of a brand-new work, A Man fromthe Future, based on the life and work of Alan Turing who, in December 2013, was granted a royal pardon for his conviction for homosexuality almost 60 years after his death
  
  
• CBeebies (26 & 27 July)
  For the first time, the BBC’s pre-school channel for children collaborates with the BBC Proms in two special concerts with the BBC Philharmonic. Encouraging learning through music, well-known CBeebies characters from the channel will take to the Royal Albert Hall stage
  
  
• Kiss Me, Kate (2 August)
  The Shakespeare-inspired musical Kiss Me, Kate is given its Proms debut by John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra
  
  
• War Horse Prom (3 August) 
  Marking the centenary of the First World War, the BBC Proms teams up with the National Theatre for the first time in a Prom featuring life-size puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company from the internationally acclaimed production and music performed by the Proms Military Wives Choir directed by Gareth Malone
  
  
• Battle of the Bands (8 August)
  In a recreation of Count Basie and Duke Ellington’s legendary Battle of the Bands, Clare Teal presents an evening that promises to take us back to New York City in the late 1930s and will be broadcast live on both BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 2
  
  
• Laura Mvula (19 August)
  Following her Proms debut last year, Laura Mvula returns to give her very own Late Night Prom with the Metropole Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Jules Buckley, with whom Laura collaborated for the Urban Classic Prom in 2013
  
  
• Paloma Faith (5 September)
  BRIT Award-nominated singer-songwriter Paloma Faith makes her Proms debut in a Late Night Prom of her work arranged by Guy Barker for his 42-piece jazz orchestra and backed by the Urban Voices Collective
  
  
• Rufus Wainwright (11 September)
  Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, who has written his own opera, set Shakespeare sonnets to music and composed for the ballet, gives a Late Night Prom performing a selection of his songs in new arrangements with the Britten Sinfonia