David Arnold, Nadine Shah and Charlotte Harding celebrate the BBC Proms
Nadine Shah, David Arnold and Charlotte Harding the world's largest annual classical music festival, the BBC Proms, with Anna and Jeffrey.
To mark this year's BBC Proms, Jeffrey and Anna are joined by three music specialists to create a playlist of five Proms-themed tracks. Celebrated James Bond film composer David Arnold, Mercury-Prize-nominated, South Tyneside-born, singer and songwriter Nadine Shah, and composer and saxophonist Charlotte Harding check out this year's festival, currently just past its halfway point, and look into the archive to choose their five tracks.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
James Bond Theme by John Barry
4th mvt: Adagio, from 9th Symphony by Gustav Mahler
Time by Pink Floyd
It’s Raining Today by Scott Walker
And the Door Unsealed by Miho Hazama
Other music in this episode:
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
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- Fri 21 Aug 202619:15BBC Radio 4
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