Graham Norton will present the 12 May awards at London's Royal Festival Hall.

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Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes, will introduce the performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday 26 May.

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The Bafta TV awards will be hosted by Graham Norton at the Royal Festival Hall in London and will be broadcast on BBC One.

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Eight new works have been commissioned to celebrate the return of the Southbank Centre's fully-restored Royal Festival Hall organ which made its debut there in 1954.

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The awards ceremony, hosted by Graham Norton, will be held at the Royal Festival Hall, on London's South Bank, on Sunday 12 May and broadcast on BBC One.

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When you've made it back to terra firma stroll east along the river, past the Royal Festival Hall and the uncompromisingly brutalist National Theatre, navigating the crowds that cluster around the street entertainers.

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Colin Davis got his big break in 1959 when Otto Klemperer fell ill and he took his place at the Royal Festival Hall to conduct a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Joan Sutherland.

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Other ideas include drilling into the aquifer beneath the city and pumping cool water along the tunnels (a method already used to cool the Royal Festival Hall), or installing chillers in the trains that would freeze blocks of ice while the trains were above ground which would then keep them frosty on the underground sections.

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The festival was first staged in 1993 as a way of filling the Royal Concert Hall's January schedule.

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They come to Europe in June for a string of festival dates, as well as two nights in London's Royal Albert Hall.

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