BBC Music has announced plans for a series of special shows across its network to mark the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize.The annual awards show, which honours the best in British music of the last 12 months, will not go ahead as normal given the coronavirus pandemic.Instead, this year’s Mercury Prize winner will be announced live on The One Show on September 24.
The programme will also feature the first interview with the winning artist.The BBC’s Mercury Prize coverage will begin before that on September 21, when Tom Ravenscroft will begin filling in for Marc Riley on Radio 6 Music.Across the week, he will share previously recorded performances from the shortlisted artists.
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