Fancy a promenade this weekend?

By pierre 17 Comments

This weekend marks the first ever Comedy Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on the 13th August, as hosted by our Tim. Also confirmed to be appearing alongside him are:

  • Sue Perkins
  • Kit and The Widow
  • Beardyman
  • The Boy with Tape on his Face
  • Doc Brown
  • Mongrels
  • Susan Bullock (soprano)
  • Danny Driver (piano)
  • BBC Concert Orchestra
  • Jules Buckley (conductor)
  • Andrew Litton (guest conductor)

Seated tickets sold out pretty quickly, though you might be able to get returns from the Royal Albert Hall box office. If you’re local to the area though, there will be standing tickets in the arena and gallery, available on the day, for the bargain price of £5! Tickets must be bought in person and paid for by cash. A limited number of tickets for the arena will usually be sold to the day queue from 5pm and the remaining tickets will then be sold from door 11 (arena) and door 10 (gallery) from 6:45pm to those queuing there.

If you can’t make it down, or are in another country, then the whole thing is being broadcast live, worldwide, on BBC Radio 3! It’ll kick off at 7:30pm in the UK, but if you’re elsewhere, click here to find out when it starts in your region. If you can’t listen live, then it’ll be on iPlayer for seven days afterwards.

There will also be a television broadcast on the 27th August on BBC2 and BBC HD, and we’ll be sure to remind you of that closer to the time!

If you’re curious as to what Tim thinks about it all, he’s written a blog here for Limelight Magazine.