MYSTERY TUNE ON THE BBC NEWS

[GoldenStreet]

For example, the TV sig tunes for Mastermind and Ski Sunday are both library music and the BBC Golf theme was by Brian Bennett. BB and Alan Hawkshaw have done loads of library music over the years.

Indeed, a familiar piece by Alan Hawkshaw, in particular...



Bill

[MikeAB]

For that matter anyone know what is the instrumental version of Summer Holiday on Chris Evans' radio 2 show he is using behind some banality or other?

It's not 'them' or 'him'.

[JimN]

Try for a few bonus points by identifying the famous uses of these theme tunes:

https://clyp.it/w2rer3am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPvw-DGB40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlO072IwdsE

https://clyp.it/gnk4bplb

[Iain Purdon]

For example, the TV sig tunes for Mastermind and Ski Sunday are both library music and the BBC Golf theme was by Brian Bennett. BB and Alan Hawkshaw have done loads of library music over the years.

Indeed, a familiar piece by Alan Hawkshaw, in particular...



Bill

Indeed! Did you see that programme where Krishnan Guru-Murthy was a guest (Have I Got News For You? perhaps) and the panel discussed the theme. They concluded that the words for the 4-note logo were "Here's Some News". All very silly, and fun.

[GoldenStreet]

Try for a few bonus points by identifying the famous uses of these theme tunes:

https://clyp.it/w2rer3am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPvw-DGB40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlO072IwdsEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyK0OUlCxzI

https://clyp.it/gnk4bplb

There's no forgetting the fourth item, i.e. Peter Yorke's Silks And Satins, the original theme of ATV's Emergency Ward 10, the first hospital soap from 1957...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyK0OUlCxzI

Bill