My highlights from the season to come This morning, as Radio 3 controller Roger Wright talked a group of arts journalists through the 2010 BBC Proms season in the Royal College of Music, the surprise was that there was not one but two "last nights" in the lineup. Yes, there's the one on 11 September – the last night of the festival. But a few days before, on 5 September, there's also a fascinating re-creation of the Last Night programme from 1910. But where's Land of Hope and Glory, where's Jerusalem, in this Edwardian programme? Nowhere to be seen. The tradition of having those songs, along with Rule Britannia as an apparently immutable "package" for the Last Night programme, dates back not to the origins of the festival in the 1890s, but the 1950s. Which means it would be perfectable possible to get rid of it, right? Anyway: my tip, for what it's worth, is to get yourself on to the Proms site (link above) and go to the online Proms planner . Sort out all the Proms you want...
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