BBC Coronation Celebration Season - May/June 2013.
I didn't realise this was a whole "season" of programmes so if someone could merge my passion for horses thread with this one, that would be great. I've already PM'd Warren.
Kicking into overdrive to maximise the Coronation coverage we have several channels broadcasting several programmes and even Radio coverage.
On Monday 27th May - we had A Passion for Horses
On Sunday 2nd June - To mark the 60th anniversary of The Queen’s Coronation, BBC Parliament will for the first time broadcast a digitally re-mastered version of the Abbey Coronation Service in full. The broadcast will follow the exact times of the original Coronation, airing from 10:15 to 17:20 on BBC Parliament.
BBC Radio 4 - Choristers Of The Coronation will explore the memories of one-time choristers who sang at the Coronation ceremony 60 years ago.
The programme aired on Saturday and for UK viewers can be found here -
BBC Radio 4 - Choristers of the Coronation.
Sunday 2nd June @ 11am on BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Royal Gala Programme Of Radio Variety 1953, a special variety show given in the Concert Hall of the BBC on 27 February 1953 in front of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh.
Sunday 2nd June @ 8pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra - Coronation Day Across The World, which was originally broadcast on the evening of Coronation Day, and gave a world-wide view of the celebrations.
BBC1 on Monday 3rd June @ 9pm - The People’s Coronation will see David Dimbleby recalling history by revisiting the 1953 Coronation through the people who took part and who celebrated it across the country.
BBC1 on Tuesday 4th June @ 10am - The Coronation: 60th Anniversary
Service
BBC One - The Coronation: 60th Anniversary Service
BBC Radio 3 - will reflect The Queen’s Coronation anniversary as part of its month-long Celebration Of British Music
Unknown airdate - British Music and The Monarchy, David Starkey will show how the lives of our greatest composers and musicians are inextricably linked to the destinies of so many of our monarchs – and demonstrate how much history can be read from some of the nation’s best-loved works, including Rule Britannia, God Save The Queen, and Land of Hope And Glory. This is the music of ceremony, pageantry, and power - music composed for Coronations and Jubilees, thanksgiving and political expediency.
There is a
DVD and
Book for the series already available for pre-order.
All information from
BBC - Media Centre - BBC unveils a Coronation celebration season
I will hunt around for outside of the UK links.
BBC1 & 2 link =
http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=22232