BBC Proms · SEASON 53
The First Night of the Proms
Episode 1 · 1999-07-16

- Documentary
Episode overview
Composer Michael Berkeley introduces live coverage - broadcast simultaneously with Radio 3 -of Michael Tippett 's The Mask of Time. This visionary and final statement ofTippett's, drawing together through words and music his opinions of mankind and man's place in the universe, is the opening concert of the BBC Prom season, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Season 53 episodes
1. The First Night of the Proms1999-07-16
2. BBC Proms 991999-08-13
3. Celebrity Proms with Michael Parkinson1999-08-15
4. BBC Proms 991999-08-18
5. Celebrity Proms with James Galway1999-08-24
6. BBC Proms 991999-08-31
7. Celebrity Proms with Tom Conti1999-08-31
8. Celebrity Proms with Anna Ford1999-09-05
9. BBC Proms 991999-09-06
10. The Last Night of the Proms1999-09-11
11. Last Night of the Proms1999-09-11
12. CBBC Proms in the Park1999-10-02