Proms UnpluckedEpisodes Episode guide
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The Grumbling Appendix - an unnecessarily musical review of the 2017 season.
Vikki reviews the season with Proms Director David Pickard, whilst playing a piano duet.
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Welcome to The Proms Unplucked
Welcome to this new BBC podcast. The first episode will be published within seven days.
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Welcome to the Proms Podcast 2017
Composer and Comedian Vikki Stone welcomes you to the 2017 Proms Podcast series.
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The Well-Tempered Glass of Wine
Vikki is backstage with the Stax stars and takes Sophie Ellis-Bextor to her first prom.
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The Saw and The Stone
Vikki Stone gets playing and meets the flash prommers, a glass rubber and a saw bower.
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The Loneliness of the Late-Night Organist
The glitz of Strictly, the RAH organ and a whack on a big Verdi Drum.
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The Listening Service: Beginnings - Proms 2018 Special
An episode from The Listening Service discussing how music - and the 2018 Proms - begin.
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The Last Podcast of the Proms
Vikki duets with Sir James Galway, rolls with Rick Astley, and queues the last night.
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The Interpreter
Vikki Stone on the art of interpretation, the cadenza, jazz standards and Pointless.
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The First Date
Vikki Stone starts her summer of "Prom Dates" and makes a music quiz obligatory.
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The Errors of Comedy
Vikki takes a special look at the theme of Shakespeare and other potential Prom themes.
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The Corridor Monstrosity
Vikki encounters a massive drum, some unexpected Daft Punk, chains and scaffold poles.
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The Baton Relay
Vikki runs the inaugural Proms Unplucked (conductor's) Baton Relay athletics event.
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The Arrangement
Vikki is backstage at the Scott Walker Prom and explores the many New Pieces of the Week.
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Talking Stick
Vikki speaks to the ones with their backs to us, in a conductors' special.
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Rig Week
Vikki Stone is backstage for the first night of the greatest classical music festival.
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Quincy Jones Celestial Twin
Vikki talks parties with the awesome Quincy Jones and his friend Sir Michael Caine.
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Programme Notes
Vikki is on eternity with Daniel Barenboim and the best spot to nap at the Albert Hall.
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Only Fools and Orchestras
Vikki watches football in a park, a Prom in a car park, and Simon Rattle explains Boulez.
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Oh, What a Wonderful Podcast
Vikki hangs with the Chaps in Chaps, backstage for a complete Oklahoma! prom.
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Of course Jamie Cullum's friends don't clap on 1 and 3
Vikki is at the Jamie Cullum Prom and tries a binaural v. stereo listening challenge.
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Name That Tune
Vikki on younger orchestras, science fiction, busking, and the first Proms Name That Tune.
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Name That Spoon
Vikki explores Mozart conspiracy theories and plays Bizet spoons with Radio 3 controller.
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Last Minute Changes
Vikki Stone takes you behind the scenes at the BBC Proms.
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It's Pronounced Purcell
Vikki swings with the vocalists in a singers' special.
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It's Pronounced Bowie
Vikki tries the tabla, talks electric violin and showbiz, and goes backstage at Bowie.
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Episode II: A New Episode
Vikki on tricky scores, film scores, the John Williams phenomenon, and Shostakovich.
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Don't Trust 'em
Vikki takes Imogen Heap to a prom and travels from the Reformation to a jazz revolution.
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12 Cellists Walk Into a Green Room
Vikki Stone focuses on the cello, one of the themes of this year's BBC Proms season.
