BBC Proms Season 2026 Episode 10 - Space Soundtracks at the Proms

Airdate: 2026-Aug-08

Episode summary:

Actor Nick Mohammed journeys through the Proms archive to celebrate the music that transformed people's view of the universe. Featuring Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gustav Holst's The Planets, John Williams's scores for Star Wars and ET the Extra-Terrestrial, Hans Zimmer's Interstellar and Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight, heard in Arrival.

About BBC Proms series:

BBC Proms is the world's greatest classical music festival.