Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park (2019) - BBC Music

Client: BBC
Commissioned by: BBC Music
Production Company: BBC Music 
Production Partner: N/A
Featured Talent: Pet Shop Boys, Bananarama, Status Quo and Kelsea Ballerini 
Filming Location: Hyde Park, London, England
Equipment: Mac laptop with Adobe Creative Suite - Premiere Pro
Format: 16:9 for online BBC channels and iPlayer distribution  

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2019 was one of the UK’s most anticipated music events, and BBC Music turned to Kumo London for fast-turnaround post-production to deliver headline acts to millions worldwide. Commissioned by BBC Music, Kumo London was tasked with editing highlight performances from Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2019, delivering a suite of social-ready and platform-specific video content. In collaboration with BBC’s editorial team, we sourced and edited performance footage of major artists to meet the technical and creative standards of BBC iPlayer, YouTube and BBC Music’s social media.

Artists featured in this compilation included Pet Shop Boys, Bananarama, Status Quo, Kelsea Ballerini and more. Each edit was tailored to reflect the artist’s energy and the festival’s celebratory tone, incorporating BBC branding, platform format specs and colour retouching.

Our team worked under strict turnaround conditions to provide final delivery for iPlayer and social rollouts, ensuring each moment landed with clarity, performance impact and broadcast integrity.

STRATEGIC INSIGHT

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park 2019 demonstrated the power of collaborative festival content editing. By embedding directly with the BBC editorial team, Kumo London ensured content was crafted with institutional oversight, then transformed for social engagement and broadcast streaming without loss of detail or tone.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park attracts millions of viewers across broadcast and digital platforms. At this scale, festival post-production requires more than technical speed; it demands cultural sensitivity, editorial precision and platform fluency.

Led by editor Yohan Forbes, Kumo London’s post-production services transformed raw festival footage into broadcast-ready highlights that extended the festival’s cultural footprint beyond Hyde Park, allowing global audiences to experience the energy of the event through iPlayer, YouTube and BBC Music’s social channels. 

This case study demonstrates Kumo London’s ability to deliver trusted post-production for essential cultural events, ensuring every performance was broadcast-ready, engaging and shareable under tight deadlines.

SERVICES PROVIDED

- Festival video editing for BBC Music

- Multi-camera performance syncs and footage sourcing

- Platform-specific formatting (iPlayer, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok)

- Social cutdowns and clip packaging

- Colour retouching, titling and audio balancing

- Collaboration with BBC edit producers and festival delivery leads

RELATED WORK

See more of our post-production work below:

- Reading Festival (2022): Reading Festival 2022 brought together global headline acts from Ed Sheeran to Bring Me The Horizon. Kumo London delivered fast-turnaround post-production for BBC Music, packaging live performances into broadcast-ready edits for iPlayer, YouTube, and social platforms, ensuring festival highlights reached audiences worldwide within hours of the shows.

- BBC Glastonbury (2019): Digital-first edits for BBC Music at Glastonbury, cutting headline festival performances into broadcast-compliant highlights for iPlayer, YouTube and social audiences with editorial precision.

- Hyundai Mercury Prize (2019): Post-production and highlights editing for BBC Music’s Hyundai Mercury Prize, packaging headline acts into broadcast-ready festival coverage for iPlayer, YouTube and broadcast platforms.

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