{"id":43584,"date":"2024-05-28T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/868d3a4e-05be-4451-bdf6-a33430d037f1"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:36:17","slug":"clive-myrie-a-brief-guide-to-the-bbc-proms-and-bbc-general-election-presenter","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/clive-myrie-a-brief-guide-to-the-bbc-proms-and-bbc-general-election-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Myrie: a brief guide to the BBC Proms and BBC General Election presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:26 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><strong>Clive Myrie&#8217;s deep, sonorous voice is familiar across the UK, but it&#8217;s usually breaking news, investigating injustices or reporting live from a war zone. You will also have spotted him at the 2023 BBC Proms &#8211; while during the summer of 2024 he will be more busy with General Election coverage.<\/strong> <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-is-clive-myrie\">Who is Clive Myrie?<\/h2><p>Clive Myrie is a BBC journalist, newsreader and presenter, who also presents the quiz show <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/tv-and-film-music\/mastermind-theme-tune\/\">Mastermind<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em>He was also part of the 2021 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/bbc-proms\/\">BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> presenting team alongside Clara Amfo and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-anna-lapwood\">Anna Lapwood<\/a><\/strong>, and returned to present the 2023 BBC Proms. He will soon be on our screens presenting the BBC&#8217;s 2024 General Election coverage with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p><p>Clive has worked for the BBC almost exclusively throughout his career as a journalist and broadcaster. He started out in BBC local news in Bristol before he served as a foreign correspondent in Japan, America, France and Africa. Next, Clive became the BBC&#8217;s Europe correspondent based in Brussels. In 2009, he became a presenter on the BBC News Channel, a segue to becoming one of the BBC&#8217;s leading newsreaders.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clive Myrie on his Television Journalist of the Year award win\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tOVK_v9tVhI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><p>As well as reading the news, Myrie has presented documentaries and reports on the Rohingya refugee crisis, the Mozambique floods and the Kathmandu earthquake. At the start of 2022, he became one of the lead anchors reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p><p>Myrie joined the presenting line-up for the BBC Proms in 2021, the same year he became the new presenter of BBC&#8217;s iconic quiz show <em>Mastermind. <\/em><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-clive-myrie-a-musician\">Is Clive Myrie a musician?<\/h2><p>Clive Myrie learnt the violin and trumpet as a teenager in his youth orchestra, and has spoken about performing music by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/franz-schubert\/\">Schubert<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/modest-musorgsky\/\">Musorgsky<\/a> <\/strong>.<\/p><p>Clive Myrie is a big<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/greatest-jazz-guitarists-ever\/\"> jazz<\/a><\/strong> fan. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/clara-amfo-clive-myrie-and-anna-lapwood-to-join-proms-tv-presenting-line-up-for-2021\/\"><strong>joined the Proms line-up in 2021<\/strong><\/a> to present the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/when-are-bbc-proms-tv\/\"><strong>BBC&#8217;s TV coverage of the Prom<\/strong><\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-nubya-garcia\"><strong>saxophonist Nubya Garcia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><p>Clive <a href=\"https:\/\/planetradio.co.uk\/jazz-fm\/shows\/the-definitive-history-of-jazz-in-britain-with-clive-myrie\/\"><strong>previously hosted a ten-part series on Jazz FM<\/strong><\/a> exploring the last 100 years of jazz music-making.<\/p><p>He is also a big lover of opera.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opera, ENO and Me: Clive Myrie \u01c0 English National Opera\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I6-cVukD7Ws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-which-2023-bbc-proms-did-clive-myrie-present\">Which 2023 BBC Proms did Clive Myrie present?<\/h2><p>Clive presented the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-years-first-night-of-the-proms-2\"><strong>First Night of the Proms<\/strong><\/a> year live from the Royal Albert Hall. The programme featured <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/jean-sibelius\/\">Sibelius&#8217;s<\/a> <\/strong><em>Finlandia <\/em>and <em>Sn\u00f6frid, plus <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/edvard-grieg\/\"><strong>Grieg<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s Piano Concerto in A minor and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/composers\/benjamin-britten-composer\/\">Britten<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Young Person\u2019s Guide to the Orchestra. <\/em>We also heard the world premiere of a new work by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.<\/p><p>Performers included pianist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-paul-lewis\/\">Paul Lewis<\/a><\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-are-the-bbc-singers\/\"><strong>BBC Singers<\/strong><\/a>, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and conductor (and 2023 <em>BBC Music Magazine<\/em> Personality of the Year)<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-conductor-dalia-stasevska\/\">Dalia Stasevska<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><p>Clive was joined in the presenting lineup by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/who-is-katie-derham\/\">Katie Derham<\/a><\/strong>, who returns to present the 2024 BBC Proms. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-did-you-know\">Did you know?<\/h2><p>Clive also presented one of the Awards at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/awards\/2024-awards\/bbc-music-magazine-awards-2024-winners-announced\">2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards<\/a><\/strong>. Here he is presenting the Recording of the Year to Rosenna East, managing director of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/john-wilson-and-the-sinfonia-of-london\">Sinfonia of London<\/a><\/strong>, for the album of orchestral works by Delius, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/edward-elgar\">Elgar<\/a><\/strong>, Howells and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/ralph-vaughan-williams\">Vaughan Williams<\/a><\/strong>, performed by the Sinfonia and their conductor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/who-is-john-wilson\">John Wilson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BBC journalist Clive Myrie and Rosenna East, Sinfonia of London, at the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Pic: John Millar &#8211; John Millar<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/bbc-proms\/2024-bbc-proms-listings\"><strong>full schedule for the 2024 BBC Proms here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Tuesday, 28 May 2024 at 12:26 PM Clive Myrie&#8217;s deep, sonorous voice is familiar across the UK, but it&#8217;s usually breaking news, investigating injustices or reporting live from a war zone. 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