The Proms' problem isn't the programming, it's the lack of imagination

Critics of this year’s lineup bemoaning events such as the club music prom are missing the point. The BBC Proms is no longer about music; it’s about the PromsI can reveal exclusively the real reason why Roger Wright, the former controller of the Proms, resigned his post last year. Wright’s producer had wanted to programme the original 1873 version of Bruckner’s Third Symphony, but Wright, and I’m quoting him verbatim here, considered this notion to be “political correctness gone mad�