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Last Night: has it had its day?

Saturday is the Last Night of the Proms, but is it still relevant to modern Britain? Sarah Urwin Jones asks key figures in the music world how they�d change it

Time to break out the swanee whistles, don your Union Jack hat and polish up your sea shanties. Yes, the annual flag-waving jamboree that is the Last Night of the Proms is upon us once more, and you're not getting in without a very large kazoo.