Friday Night Is Music Night
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Friday Night Is Music Night (known as Sunday Night Is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 from 2020) is a long-running live BBC radio concert programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast from 1953 to 2023 on the BBC Light Programme and its successor BBC Radio 2, moving to BBC Radio 3 from April 2024.[2]
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Genre | |
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Running time | 2 hours |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | BBC Light Programme (1953—1967) BBC Radio 2 (1967—2023) BBC Radio 3 (2024—) |
Original release | 25 September 1953 (1953-09-25)[1] |
Audio format | Stereo |
Website | www |
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The programme is the world's longest-running live orchestral music radio programme (although there were no new editions during the first part of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020).[3]