Doctor Who at the Proms, right now!

[dbskyler]

Listening to the international live (and legal!) feed of Doctor Who at the Proms, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary by including music from the entire run of Doctor Who!

This is why I love the internet, and fandom for helping me to find things on the internet.

Not sure how long the program goes for, but if you want to join me, the live feed is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_three


ETA: OMG, Carole Ann Ford is presenting!!!!

ETA2: And, it's over. But I think you can still listen to it here (once they get it uploaded): http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2013/july-13/14610. Hopefully they will also broadcast it on TV eventually so we can all see the clips and the presenters (besides Carole, I heard Matt Smith, Jenna Louise Coleman, and Peter Davison, just to name a few).

ETA3: There's already a video! I hope the BBC posts more, but in the meantime, this is marvelous:

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, so glad you were enjoying it! ♥

The internet really is a marvellous thing, isn't it? Whatever did we do without it? I certainly wouldn't be chatting to you if it didn't exist, and that would be sad.

Belatedly, I'm realising I should have recorded this, shouldn't I? Oh well...

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I was pretty excited to come across the post with the link. I vaguely knew that it was coming up, but for some strange reason, the event wasn't advertised here in California.

It's so nice that radio doesn't have the same region-locking silliness that TV has. I wonder why that is?

And yes, my life would be much poorer if it weren't for the internet, and for fandom, and for fandom on the internet.

[thisbluespirit]

but for some strange reason, the event wasn't advertised here in California.

:lol: You mean you don't have Last of the Proms things where everyone sings Land of Hope and Glory? (Or whatever it is they do play/sing. I might not be paying the proper attention to my cultural traditions. *cough*) ;-)

I don't really know of course, but I'd imagine that it comes down to money - they can sell TV series, but there's less of a market for radio? Anyway, lots of radio things on the iPlayer are internationally available. I understand some TV is too, but it varies by country and I don't know what (if anything) is up there for US viewers, but you could poke around there sometime and find out, if you ever wanted. Probably really odd things they couldn't sell, but who knows?

BBC Worldwide do put up some things legally on YouTube as well these days. (The whole of the BBC Shakespeare I've been challenging myself to watch is there, though some of that is... not stuff you want to rush off and watch. *pets 1970s/80s BBC for trying* Some of it is very good, of course. But not all of it.)

So, yes, the internet - pretty awesome, right? :-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yes, I need to go poke around and find odd things they couldn't sell! Some of my favorite shows fall into that category!

[thisbluespirit]

If you find anything, let me know! (I don't know why but I'm rather intrigued as to what the BBC want to offer for free to different countries. But then, I do get bored a lot, it's true. ;-D)