The most popular Proms in terms of ticket sales included the First Night of the Proms, conducted by Sakari Oramo in his inaugural performance as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, on 12 July, plus two Doctor Who Proms on 13 and 14 July and both Proms by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons on 8 and 9 August. Wright, who is also the controller of BBC Radio 3, added that there were still tickets available for the "vast majority of events" and that "you can always come and Prom on the day".
Park Life - The Killers brought Scotland's largest festival, T In The Park, to a close. The Las Vegas band played a set including hit singles such as Human, Somebody Told Me and Mr Brightside. 85,000 people attended the three-day event at Balado airfield in Kinross. Music-wise, Sunday's line-up was completed by David Guetta, who headlined the Radio 1 stage, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who played the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent.
Cultural Cutback - A plan to hold a UK arts festival every two years to follow on from the 2012 Cultural Olympiad has been dropped. Former Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt suggested a biennial festival on the back of the £127m arts programme that ran alongside the London 2012 Games. He said the festival could "celebrate the best of what we have culturally". But the government said the Cultural Olympiad Board did not include the biennial idea in its recommendations for securing the best future legacy.
Former Cultural Olympiad director Ruth Mackenzie said the idea was not included because it was rejected by Mr Hunt's successor, Maria Miller. The Cultural Olympiad included a nationwide bell-ringing event, an inflatable Stonehenge and a string quartet performing in helicopters. An Arts Council England report concluded that 177,000 events led to "over 43 million public experiences" of the Cultural Olympiad.
Two days after the London 2012 Olympic Games closed last August, Mr Hunt said he wanted to "capitalise on the successes we have achieved in developing cultural tourism".
Littlewood Tribute - Pioneering theatre director Joan Littlewood is to be commemorated with a bronze statue outside Theatre Royal Stratford East, the London venue she used to run. The sculpture is being designed by Philip Jackson, who is best known for his representation of another east London icon - World Cup-winning footballer Bobby Moore, whose statue stands at West Ham's Upton Park football stadium. Jackson is also responsible for the sculpture of Alex Ferguson at Manchester United FC.
Littlewood, who died in 2002, brought her Theatre Workshop company to TRSE in 1953 and became known for championing the stories of working-class people. Productions created by Littlewood and her company included the UK premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, Fings Ain't Wot they Used T'Be by Frank Norman and Lionel Bart, and Oh What a Lovely War, which will be revived at TRSE next year.
Musical Notes - Hollywood film studio 20th Century Fox has joined forces with a top Broadway producer to develop a raft of stage musicals based on Fox films. "For years we have been eager to expand our entertainment expertise to the world of live stage," said Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos in a statement. "But we wanted to do it right and, most importantly, with the right people."
Kevin McCollum, the producer behind Broadway hits Rent and Avenue Q, is among those co-financing the operation. He has teamed up with film producer John Davis and entert
