Prom 59: Life Story Prom (30.08.15)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

15:30
Royal Albert Hall

Sir David Attenborough and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Jeremy Holland-Smith, live at the Royal Albert Hall for the Life Story Prom.


Sir David Attenborough (presenter)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jeremy Holland-Smith (conductor)

Distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents a concert inspired by his recent BBC Television series, Life Story. The soundtrack, composed by Murray Gold (who has written the music for Doctor Who since 2005), takes centre-stage, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Sir David introduces sequences from the series played on big screens and is joined by members of the production team, who offer insights into the making of this stunning natural history series.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not much programme detail available, I'm afraid. . .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Still very little useful information about the programme.

[Cockney Sparrow]

One of those Proms not on my radar (blanked out under the category "on of those supposed Proms pre-empted to corporate BBC wide marketing (itself) or supposedly broadening the audience for.....(not sure for what, actually but that's been considered on the forum, I know)).

But I arrived home to hear it being played on the kitchen audio system. Surely, there is no logic in failing to televise this Prom, in some form at some date..... and yet I can't see it as one of those listed for TV.