Radio & Television

The BBC Electric Proms today announced the line up for this year’s festival taking place in London and Liverpool from Wednesday 22 to Sunday 26 October 2008.

Stars of BBC Local Radio and regional tv will put their dancing shoes on and participate in a Dancer in Need competition this weekend at the Royal Berkshire County Show to raise awareness for charity BBC Children in Need.

BBC Radio 1 announced today details of the Radio 1 Live Lounge Tour 2008.

Metallica, one of the biggest bands on the planet, are to play a unique gig for BBC Radio 1.

1Xtra from the BBC today announced its broadcast schedule for the Notting Hill and Leeds Carnivals on Bank Holiday, Monday 25 August.

Programming for Big Bang Day on BBC Radio 4.

BBC Radio 4 will have exclusive access to one of the most exciting scientific experiments ever attempted when physicists try to recreate the aftermath of the Big Bang.

Once again BBC Radio 5 Live is the home of live radio football with no less than 192 Premier League games for the 2008/09 season.

To mark the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the UK and Vietnam, BBC Vietnamese and the British Embassy in Hanoi are launching a photo essay competition, The UK and Vietnam: People-To-People Links.

One hundred key figures from the arts, media, politics and science offer their personal cultural thoughts for the day in Free Thought to be broadcast daily on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside from Saturday 2 August.