Petroc Trelawny


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Petroc Trelawny is one of the best known voices on BBC Radio 3, where he currently presents the Breakfast programme on weekday mornings. From April 2025, he will join Katie Derham as the new co-host of the station’s flagship weekday afternoon programme In Tune.

In August 2024, Petroc published his first book, Trelawny’s Cornwall, which explored the history and legacy of his childhood hometown.

For BBC Television, Petroc was part of the commentary team for the coverage of the Coronation of King Charles III and the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen. He has presented BBC Proms on radio and television for more than twenty years as well as hosting the first ever BBC Proms Australia for ABC Radio in 2015 and twice hosting BBC Proms Dubai at the new Dubai Opera House.

He introduces the annual live BBC broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert and has been the face of BBC’s Cardiff Singer of the World for thirteen years.  He also anchors note-by-note coverage of the Leeds International Piano Competition for Medici.tv. He has presented the international telecast of Eurovision Young Musician to more than two dozen countries from Edinburgh and Eurovision Choir live from Gothenburg. Since 2022, he has presented the Royal Ballet’s live performance relays, shown in over 1,500 cinemas around the globe.

A frequent contributor to Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, he has written on travel, music and the arts for publications including The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator and Radio Times.

Raised in west Cornwall, his early career includes broadcasting in Hong Kong for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, being part of the launch team for Classic FM and London News Radio, presenting breakfast on BBC Radio Manchester and working as a presenter for RTE in Ireland. He is President of the Lennox Berkeley Society, Luton Music and the Three Spires Singers. As well as classical music he loves books, travel, food and wine, cinema and theatre. He is a Trustee of the Hall for Cornwall, Truro.