"carol ""Good King Wenceslas"". The words to the hymn ""Morning Has Broken"", later a hit for Cat Stevens, were written by Eleanor Farjeon from her Alfriston home, inspired by the Sussex countryside. The village of Wadhurst gives its name to a hymn written by Michael Tippett. Inspired by the view across the English Channel from Selsey towards Bognor Regis, ""By the Sleepy Lagoon"" by Eric Coates has been used by BBC Radio 4 as the opening theme music for ""Desert Island Discs"" since 1942. Coates lived on the Manhood peninsula, initially at Selsey and later at Sidlesham. Best known for"
"The series was repeated on BBC4 commencing with ""Tomkinson's Schooldays"" on 3 April 2014. This broadcast included a laugh track. The first episode was preceded by a documentary, ""Alexander Armstrong's Real Ripping Yarns"", which examined the assumptions and outlook of the original boys' magazines of which ""Ripping Yarns"" were a parody. Both Palin and Jones contributed to the programme. The theme tune for the series was ""Fanfare"" from the Facade Suite No 2', by Sir William Walton, played by the City of Birmingham Orchestra, conducted by Louis Frémaux. Terry Hughes directed early episodes, and would later direct ""The Two Ronnies"","
"supplied in real time by the show's Twitter feed. It is described as an 'audio journey through five decades of triumph, tragedy and trivia.' The first part of the series was first broadcast at 10pm on Thursday 7 April. Focussing upon 1951, it featured the real King's Speech (as he opens the Festival of Britain), a General Election victory for the Conservatives and their Liberal allies, the first hit single with multi-tracking (Les Paul’s ""How High The Moon""), the first rock ’n’ roll record (Jackie Brentson’s ""Rocket 88""), screen heroes from Marlon Brando to The Lone Ranger. The series was"
"introductory music for much of each episode is ""Tico's Tune"" by Geoff Love (recorded by him under the name ""Manuel & The Music of the Mountains""). This piece of music has near-iconic status in Ireland as it was used as the theme music for ""The Gay Byrne Show"", a long-running and immensely popular morning radio show on RTÉ Radio 1. Background music and soundtrack pieces were composed for the series by Rónán Johnston. The opening credits are accompanied with the song ""Where's Me Jumper"" by The Sultans of Ping FC. ""Moone Boy"" aired its third and final season in 2015."
"international record shop chain Virgin Megastores. On the cover of ""Billionaire Beat"", a magazine that Burns reads in the episode, business magnates Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch can be seen. In a scene in the episode, Burns assumes that """"Don McNeill and his Breakfast Club"""" is currently the most popular radio program. ""Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"" was a real radio program that, according to Scully, Swartzwelder used to listen to. Costner's film ""The Postman"" is also referenced in the episode. Burns' unveiling of the Loch Ness Monster is ruined as the numerous camera flashes blind him, causing him to knock"
"Lennon, worked as a producer on the show. The distinctive theme music for ""Blind Date"" has a strong resemblance to the jazz standard ""Soft Winds"" and was composed by Laurie Holloway. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s, 18.2 million tuned in on a Saturday night. Black's scouse accent and her catchphrases became familiar throughout the United Kingdom. The show won the Lew Grade Award at the British Academy Television Awards in 1995. The first episode of Series 17, on 10 November 2001, was reportedly watched at 19:00 GMT by seven million viewers – 32% of the audience."
"2006 in the same primetime BBC One slot, following a further repeat run of the spring programmes on BBC Four. The autumn episodes were broadcast simultaneously on BBC HD and were repeated on BBC Four the following week. Besides being BBC One's featured ""One to Watch"" programme of the day, ""Planet Earth"" was heavily trailed on the BBC's television and radio channels both before and during its run. The music that was featured in the BBC trailers for the series is the track ""Hoppípolla"" from the album ""Takk..."" by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. Following the advertisements, interest was so"
"episode of the second series, 'Para Handy's Piper', guest starred future Tenth Doctor David Tennant in one of his early acting roles. The music for the series, including the theme, was written and composed by Scottish folk musician Phil Cunningham. The theme tune is a composition entitled ""Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pop"". It ran from 1994 to 1995 on BBC One for a total of nine episodes. The ship featured in the series is being restored at Crinan Boatyard on the Argyll coast and has reverted to her original name, 'Auld Reekie'. Season 1 Season 2 The first six episodes"
"universal favour with the audience. The programme often discussed unsavoury topics; for example, it ran an interview with Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth on diarrhoea while travelling. The programme was occasionally broadcast from overseas, including New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and famously on one occasion live from Bruges on the weekend when the Townsend Thoresen ferry ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" ran aground. The distinctive theme music was ""Breakaway"" written by Con Conrad, Archie Gottler and Sidney D. Mitchell for the film ""Fox Movietone Follies of 1929"" and performed by Jack Hylton and his Orchestra. Breakaway (radio"
"full of post, it's radio Soapbox and Charlie your host!"" The programme was transmitted on Sunday afternoons until Chester suffered a stroke, after which he could not walk or talk, in November 1995. Its opening and signature tune was called ""Music To Drive By"" by Alan Moorhouse. He was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 1961 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre. Chester presented brass band music in the series ""Listen to the Band"" and also featured in the BBC Radio 2 show ""The Gag Cracker's Ball"". In his leisure time he"
"a name, he ended up a support act for Steve Martin. He supported Tom Jones in 87 concerts. In 1971, he recorded an LP whilst with the group Pisces for the Trailer label. It features the moorland ballad ""Jack O'Legs"" about a 14-foot-tall highwayman. Richard Digance began his TV career on ""Sound of The City"" for Thames TV, produced by Richard Newman, in the early 1970s. This debut appearance was followed by ""The Old Grey Whistle Test"" and then the ""Today"" programme. ""The Whistle Test"" was his only BBC TV appearance except for appearing on ""The Ronnie Corbett Show"" years"
"bringing it to a larger audience. The second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two from November 2007; the third series aired from November 2008; and the final series aired from 31 May 2011 until 5 July. Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"", and positive comments were made about ""Lead Balloon""'s characters, particularly Anna Crilly's Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of ""One Way Road"", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller. The"
"by Rimsky-Korsakov, with incidental music taken from the works of other composers, including ""Tintagel"" by Sir Arnold Bax. The signature tune was later changed to ""Coronation Scot"" by Vivian Ellis. The BBC licensed the serials to broadcasters in Commonwealth countries, where they were transmitted long after their original runs in the UK. Repeating the recordings on the BBC7 digital speech channel revived interest in the serials in the early 2000s. BBC Worldwide then released all the complete recordings known to have survived on CDs and cassettes. On Monday 7 August 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first episode of a"
"radio programme in 2009, he made the following choices: """" from Strauss' ""Der Rosenkavalier""; Gershwin's ""Things are Looking Up"" sung by Fred Astaire; ""Love Song"" composed by Josef Suk; ""On Mother Kelly's Doorstep"" sung by Randolph Sutton; """" from Schubert's ""Winterreise"" song cycle; the 2nd movement of Poulenc's Flute Sonata; Mischa Spoliansky's """"; and ""They are not long the weeping and the laughter"" from Delius' ""Songs of Sunset"". Cultural historian Tony Moore, author of ""The Barry McKenzie Movies"", writes of Humphries' personal politics thus: ""A conservative contrarian while many in his generation were moving left, Humphries nevertheless retained a bohemian"
"Isao Tomita, ""Volkstanz"" by Gruppe Between and ""What a Wonderful World"" by Louis Armstrong. This diverse range of music was only featured during the first series due to the difficulty in obtaining rights for commercial releases (leading to episodes of the first series being remade as an LP album without the proprietary background music in 1979). For series two Paddy Kingsland was commissioned to provide background music and for the third to fifth series Paul 'Wix' Wickens was chosen. The series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 10.30pm on Wednesday 8 March 1978. Simon Jones recalled that Adams"
"credited as ""Creative Consultant"". In order to achieve authentic aircraft sounds, Maggs' crew recorded actual aircraft and cockpit interior sounds at an RAF base. The programme's tagline is, ""It's the Battle of Britain all over again, but this time our enemies aren't just unstoppable. They're ""inhuman"""". After a brief Orson Welles-style opening announcement, recalling Welles' notorious radio adaptation of ""The War of the Worlds"", the programme begins with a 20th Century Fox fanfare. The first 25 minutes take the form of a live ""UFO watch"" broadcast hosted by Radio 1 DJ Nicky Campbell and veteran TV astronomer Patrick Moore (of"
"read out over The Love Unlimited Orchestra's instrumental piece ""Love's Theme"". While presenting his weeknight programme on Birmingham's BRMB in the early 1990s, Graham Torrington had a similar feature as part of his ""The Love Zone"" strand. Radio 1's ""The Jo Whiley Show"" and Fearne Cotton both had a segment called ""Changing Tracks"" where listeners were invited to email requests for a song that reminded them of a time in their life when music changed everything. The theme music from ""Our Tune"" appears in Act II of the 1998 British musical ""Boogie Nights"". ""Our Tune"" also featured as one of"
"Eggheads tonight, the best quiz"" - in reference to Vine's frequent references to Eggheads - which he presents - at the end of his own radio show, which precedes Wright's). Steve himself often performs impressions of his Radio 2 colleagues - such as Tony Blackburn, Bob Harris and Jools Holland - when publicising their shows. Steve often talks about his disdain for red trousers, which is signalled by a jingle of him shouting the phrase ""Red Trousers!"" with shock and fear, then screaming as a snippet of the Dragnet theme song plays in the background. When Steve reads a shout-out"
"Wriggly Worm' and 'Wonderful Wriggly Worm Rides Again'), by Eugenie Summerfield, have been published by Book Guild. Listening Corner continued until 24 August 1990, ending three days before the launch of BBC Radio 5. The ""Berceuse"" from Fauré's ""Dolly Suite"" The theme music, which became synonymous with the programme, was the ""Berceuse"" from Gabriel Fauré's ""Dolly Suite"" for piano duet, Op. 56. It was recorded for the programme by Eileen Browne and Roger Fiske, though Julia Lang in an Anglia Television interview in the 1990s said that during her tenure, when she finished reading the story she had to get"
"In 2008, more episodes were 'discovered', including the pilot and ""The New Level Crossing"". The BBC broadcast some programmes from the series in February 2011. Starting 1 November 2012, 4 Extra began a run of the whole series using audio compiled from both the BBC's own archive and private collections, with intros and outtros re-recorded by original on-stage announcer Keith Skues. The signature tune is called ""Banjo Boy"" by Roger Roger, from the LP ""Mood Music Vol. 18"" in the Chappell music library. This music was also used for the signature tune of the British TV series The Mind of"
"series. The theme tune used for the radio, television, LP and film versions is ""Journey of the Sorcerer"", an instrumental piece composed by Bernie Leadon and recorded by The Eagles on their album ""One of These Nights"". Only the transmitted radio series used the original recording; a sound-alike cover by Tim Souster was used for the LP and TV series, another arrangement by Joby Talbot was used for the 2005 film, and still another arrangement, this time by Philip Pope, was recorded to be released with the CDs of the last three radio series. Apparently, Adams chose this song for"
"A Manners, with UK filming produced by Brian Minchin, producer of Series 4 and 5 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The series also shares ""Doctor Who""'s production designer, Edward Thomas. Music for the series was composed by Ben Foster and ""Doctor Who""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s composer Murray Gold, with composer Stu Kennedy assisting on Series 4. In lieu of a full-length title sequence, the opening sequence of the show's first two series is composed of a voice-over monologue by Barrowman as Harkness, establishing the show's premise. The show's theme tune plays over this monologue and the additional intertitle. The theme was written by"
"show. Other significant additional contributions came from, at various times, Jon Canter, Terence Dackombe, Michael Fenton Stevens, Jack (then John) Docherty, Moray Hunter, and in the later series Jeremy Pascall (with whom Deayton and Perkins were concurrently writing ""The Uncyclopedia of Rock"" for Capital Radio). The musical elements were provided by Philip Pope. Four producers worked on the series over the years (Jimmy Mulville, Jamie Rix, Paul Mayhew-Archer and David Tyler). The series theme tune is ""Out To Lunch"" by The Client, a 1979 RCA single (PB5214), originally used for a NatWest advert. The Client consisted of Ronnie Bond and"
"the track ""I Hope I Always"" which received extensive BBC Radio 2 AirPlay and led to Nigel performing a live session on the popular ""Good Morning Sunday"" show in September 2014. In 2015 he produced the comeback album from Welsh band Songdog ""Joy Street""; the first single from this ""It's Not A Love Thing"" received BBC6 Music and BBC Radio 2 AirPlay. In early 2016 Stonier collaborated with Robert Plant, Gretchen Peters, Rosanne Cash and Mary Gauthier on a track to commemorate the 70th birthday of iconic TV and radio presenter Bob Harris. Stonier is an artistic director and curator"
"music is ""Duo in G Major, Op. 34: Rondo"" by Ferdinando Carulli, performed by Julian Bream and John Williams from the album ""Together"". The programme came about because Patrick Dowling (who also introduced episodes of series 2) had an interest in Dungeons and Dragons and wanted to televise a show that would capture the mood. The programme also had a similar sci-fi feel to the work of Douglas Adams, who was asked by Patrick to write the show, as he had already agreed to write a TV series of his own radio show ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". The"
"far more 'theatrical' in her manner. Additionally, the pilot character lived in considerably better circumstances than the home seen in the series. The BBC series was filmed primarily in Burnley, Darwen, Blackburn, Rossendale, Bolton and other locations in Lancashire. The music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess, cornet solo performed by Phillip McCann and in 1997 the title track was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for best television theme. The BBC series was popular with viewers, but no further episodes were commissioned after 1998. In 2008 Patricia Routledge said in an interview that the cast and crew had"
"Television, Robert Farnon's ""Derby Day"" for Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, Richard Addinsell's ""Southern Rhapsody"" for Southern Television, Ron Goodwin's ""Westward Ho!"" for Westward Television and John Dankworth's ""Widespread World"" for Rediffusion London. Several pieces of light music are used on BBC Radio 4 to the present day, with Eric Coates's ""By the Sleepy Lagoon"" being the theme of ""Desert Island Discs"", Arthur Wood's ""Barwick Green"" the theme of ""The Archers"" and Ronald Binge's ""Sailing By"" preceding the late-night shipping forecast. During the 1960s, the style began to fall out of fashion on radio and television, forcing many light composers to refocus their"
"of contributors who offer their opinions including artists, writers, journalists, film-makers and critics. The programme was broadcast each Tuesday night. The program's producer was Angela Ryan and it was directed by Declan Byrne. The show's theme track was ""Rodney Yates"" by Belfast musician David Holmes. In 2006, John Drennan, writing in the ""Irish Independent"", asked if there was ""a sweeter sound in Irish journalism than the wails of the effete South Dublin TV critic when RTÉ viewing figures show ""Killinaskully"" [a comedy which divided critics and viewers] has trounced John Kelly's ""The View"" once again?"". ""The View Presents..."" was a"
"he founded the Amphonic Music company and record label for the express purpose of recording and producing his compositions and supplying production music to the TV, film and radio business. In 1970 his track ""Marching There and Back"" was used as the theme music to the BBC Television children's programme ""Screen Test"", presented initially by Michael Rodd. Through the 1970s and 1980s his ""The Hellraisers"" composition was used as the theme music to the BBC World Service ""Outlook"" topical programme. It was also used as the theme music to ""Orlando"", a children's television thriller serial starring Sam Kydd which ran"
"But the caretaker assured us that as soon as we started the crowd would arrive, as they were nearby ... in the pub. Sure enough, by the end of the first number, the hall was packed; a messenger had sent the word."" On 25 April 2015, the title track was somewhat popularized after it was played on ""The John Toal Show"" on BBC Radio Ulster. In a 2015 interview, the band's percussionist James Mackintosh said that ""Farewell to Nigg"" was his favourite Shooglenifty tune, whilst their mandolin player Ewan MacPherson said that ""Da Eye Wifey"" was one of his favourite"
"over fifty themes and scores, including the theme used on ""This Is Your Life"" (entitled ""Gala Performance""), ""The Avengers"" (from 1965), ""Animal Magic"" (entitled ""Las Vegas""), ""Jason King"", ""The New Avengers"" and ""The Professionals"". He was one of the founders, with Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens, of Mark One Productions, the television production company responsible for ""The New Avengers"" and ""The Professionals"". Johnson was responsible for the well-known theme music to the BBC Radio 1 series ‘Sounds of Jazz’ introduced by Peter Clayton and broadcast on Sunday evenings from October 1973 onwards. Johnson's film scores included ""The Good Companions"", ""The"
"1, and described by Spanish film and music critic Antonio Méndez as being ""traditional British folk with an electric infusion""), appeared on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 program called ""Peel Sessions"" which introduced up-and-coming musicians. In June 1972 Draheim and the Albion Country Band also recorded and had broadcast a piece (""Four Hand Reel/St. Anne's Reel"") for the BBC radio show called Top Gear, which also featured contemporary musicians; the recording was later released in 1994 on Ashley Hutchings's compilation ""The Guv'nor vol 1"". Two tracks on ""The Guv'nor vol 2"" released in 1995 are from that same 1972 broadcast."
"seem to have been soaked in Relentless and its chorus makes you want to jump around the room. It's been imitated thousands of times since, but nothing's come close to this..."" British radio station BBC Radio 1 have a section on one of their shows named after the single and using it as the theme song. Greg James originated the game on his drivetime show, and has moved it to The BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. The game sees Greg pitted against an opponent, typically a fellow Radio 1 DJ/presenter or celebrity guest. In the game, three listeners phone in"