ANSWERS

1) C. A bust of him is placed on the stage.

CONDUCTOR Sir henry Wood founded the Proms in 1895 and presided over every concert for nearly half a century. his bronze bust is borrowed from the Royal Academy of Music and placed at the back of the Royal Albert hall’s stage.

2) A. A multi-storey car park.

LAST year, a Prom was performed in a car park in Peckham, South London, and the event is returning to the venue this year.

3) False.

SIR henry Wood ignored widespread public distaste for anything German during World War I, insisting that ‘the greatest examples of music and art are world possessions and unassailable even by the prejudices of the hour’.

4) D. The Teletubbies.

WALLACE & Gromit were honoured with a Prom in 2012, Doctor Who had two Proms in 2013, while Strictly inspired one in 2016.

5) B. Paddington Bear.

THE Peruvian tenor was thrown a Paddington toy by a member of the audience (the bear came to england from ‘darkest Peru’) and proceeded to serenade it during a performance of Guantanamera — part of a medley of popular Latin songs.

After his wife Sue alerted him, the late Paddington author Michael Bond rushed to see the performance on TV.

6) True.

IN JUNE 1969, William Glock, the BBC’s controller of music, announced the change, saying it was intended to make the broadcast ‘attractive to 40 million viewers in europe’. The uproar that followed across the country meant that the Corporation had rowed back on the decision by July.