 His programming included "Panic" by Harrison Birtwistle which was premiered at the Last Night of the Proms.While Controller of Radio 3, Drummond introduced the co-ordination of interval talks with the evening concert, doubled the length of the Saturday morning "Record Review" programme and scheduled the first Jazz concert at the Proms with Loose Tubes in 1987.He also devised 'weekends' covering all the arts in a particular city (Minneapolis, Berlin).