Friday Night Is Music Night

Friday Night Is Music Night
Genre
Running time2 hours
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Light Programme (1953—1967)
BBC Radio 2 (1967—2023)
BBC Radio 3 (2024—present)
Original release25 September 1953 (1953-09-25)[1]
Audio formatStereo
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wrrv

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]

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]

  1. ^ "Friday Night is Music Night". Radio Times. Vol. 120, no. 1558 (London ed.). BBC Publications. 18 September 1953. p. 43. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. ^ "The BBC announces host of new classical music programming across TV and Radio". BBC Media Centre. 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Cancelled: Friday Night is Music Night | when You Believe: The Musical World of Stephen Schwartz".