Rule, Britannia! row is ‘a laughable irrelevance’ says former Proms director

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, who directed the series for more then a decade, dismisses controversy as kneejerk' BBC bashing

Politicians meddling in concert programming" over the Last Night of the Proms are a laughable irrelevance", according to a former director of the BBC concert series.

Sir Nicholas Kenyon, writing in the Observer, described the synthetic row" that has erupted over how Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia! will be performed without an audience.