It operates on the premise of making a Dream Ticket or Ultimate Gig requested by its listeners, and carefully chosen and drawn by the producer and staff from the BBC music session and live performance archives.
Ultimate Gig submitters are usually interviewed on-air, so that they may share their thoughts and reasons for choosing their particular virtual musical admixture.
Sundry live reports are filed from journalists and correspondents at the best of the evening's concerts in and about England and elsewhere world-wide.
As is one super-theme of BBC 6 Music generally, there is strong listener (user) interaction with the show, in vivo.
The music voted upon, if decided dynamically by the listeners not to be continued, is usually gracefully brought to a reasonable end.
Innovations with this show include the interplay of several new technological forces being applied to radio, visual interaction in the otherwise exclusively aural arena of radio, the listener being able to change the direction of the show in vivo, and the simple powerful concept of a virtual performance (Ultimate Gig or Dream Ticket).