The winner of the prize is announced in a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Tuesday September 6, with Adele's 21 and PJ Harvey's Let England Shake joint favourites to triumph.

Lauren Laverne (who presents BBC 2's live coverage of the ceremony from 10pm that night) starts the day off for 6 Music, looking at the albums nominated for the prize and playing music from nominees past and present.

At 7pm Gideon Coe hosts When We Were Nominated, a ...