Mercury Prize 2024: winners final and TV and radio broadcast announced

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2024 Mercury Prize have been revealed – here’s how you can tune in.The 2024 Mercury Award Prize ceremony will be filmed and broadcast live from Abbey Road Studios for TV on Thursday September 5 from 8pm until 9.15pm via BBC Four, the Mercury committee has confirmed via a press release.As for a radio broadcast, BBC Radio 6 will run through the entire event from 7pm until 11pm.

This year’s radio programme is being presented Tom Ravenscroft and Deb Grant, while Matt Everitt will be on hand to interview the 12 acts behind each of the Albums of The Year.The overall winner will also be announced during the broadcast, and the entire show will be played through in full.Additionally, BBC Sounds will be broadcasting a special Mercury Prize 2024 collection on Monday, September 2.

The collection will feature three hour-long cuts of Matt Everitt’s Pocket Guides, running through all 12 shortlisted albums, as well as two playlists.

One playlist will celebrate this year’s shortlisted albums, will the other playlist celebrates past Mercury Prize winners. The BBC Sounds collection will also include archival interviews, deep cuts and more content.Barry Can’t Swim – ‘When Will We Land?’BERWYN – ‘Who Am I’Beth Gibbons – ‘Lives Outgrown’Cat Burns – ‘early twenties’Charli XCX – ‘BRAT’CMAT – ‘Crazymad, for Me’Corinne Bailey Rae – ‘Black Rainbows’corto.alto – ‘Bad with Names’English Teacher – ‘This Could Be Texas’Ghetts – ‘On Purpose, With Purpose’Nia Archives – ‘Silence Is Loud’The Last Dinner Party – ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’This year however, the Mercury Prize’s usual live performance element at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith has been scrapped.