The programme regularly features many types of music from classical music, light music, film music, theatre music, songs from the musicals, opera and operetta.
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After the fanfare, the compère (today usually Ken Bruce, Aled Jones, Paul Gambaccini, Clare Teal or Russell Davies, but formerly Richard Baker, Jimmy Kingsbury, Robin Boyle, or Brian Kay) gives a summary of the programme, before reciting the slogan of the title.
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Friday Night is Music Night is a long-running live BBC radio concert programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast most Fridays on BBC Radio 2 at 8.00pm.
He once appeared with his wife and children on the long-running BBC Radio programme "Friday Night is Music Night", the only occasion on which all four Midgleys were to perform together.
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Ne andrò lontana from Alfredo Catalani’s opera La Wally and Vissi d'arte from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, followed by Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas performed with Bryn Terfel and Ella Taylor & Liam Jones (winners of Radio 2's 2010 Young Chorister Competition) performed live on 10 December 2010 for BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night.
Between 1973 and 1987 Sutherland was regularly invited by BBC Radio 2 in central London as guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra for the "Friday Night Is Music Night" programme.