Radio theme tunes

[LMcD]

Paul Guinery's delightful rendition of 'Alpine Pastures' which was used as the theme tune for the long-running series 'My Word' (although I didn't know then what the tune was called) reminded me of other favourite radio themes, including 'Coronation Scot' (Paul Temple) and 'Marching Strings' (Top Of The Form).

[Lordgeous]

Here we go again! Hancock? (Wally Stott?)

[LeMartinPecheur]

Plenty of scope here! I'd like to say a special Thank You to whoever chose the music for some no doubt long-forgotten thriller on R4 around 6 or 7pm, perhaps just after The Archers. I got hooked by the story as an impressionable schoolboy and was incredibly delighted to find its theme music coming out of R3 sometime later. It was a chunk of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, which became one of my earliest purchases once I could afford full-price LPs

[johncorrigan]

In the days before 24-hour radio, I used to wake early to hear Radio One's opening theme tune, which I loved. Still makes me feel good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ0UrwusWcM

[jayne lee wilson]

Sailing By.... why.......

In one of my former lives I would eagerly await, from mid-August on, the Shipping and Inshore Waters forecast.... Westerly above 6, I'd be down at the coast for the early tide to watch for Skuas, Shearwaters, and later, Petrels; I loved the Skuas most, rampaging through flocks of Gulls and Terns as the tide receded...

Sometimes you'd have the sublime Sabine, blown in across the beach to stun the eye with its sharp diagonals......

[Bella Kemp]

If we are allowed the theme tune to a whole day, what better than to wake to this, played at dawn on Radio 3 before the advent of 24 hour radio -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2X0ab8kiU

[Serial_Apologist]

Sailing By.... why.......

In one of my former lives I would eagerly await, from mid-August on, the Shipping and Inshore Waters forecast.... Westerly above 6, I'd be down at the coast for the early tide to watch for Skuas, Shearwaters, and later, Petrels; I loved the Skuas most, rampaging through flocks of Gulls and Terns as the tide receded...

Sometimes you'd have the sublime Sabine, blown in across the beach to stun the eye with its sharp diagonals......

My dad - the one to be blamed for passing on the pun DNA to me - re-named the Desert Island Discs theme, "The BBC Gulls".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Best-Radio-Theme-Tunes/dp/B005J37D8A/ref=nodl_

[FFRR]

Sailing By.... why.......

"Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" is why :) (May he choke on his Werthers Original).

My overriding objective when listening to Radio 4 is to flip stations before the Archers theme music kicks off! (Ditto Eastenders when watching BBC 1. Woes betides me if I don't flip before the tom-toms...)

[LMcD]

If we are allowed the theme tune to a whole day, what better than to wake to this, played at dawn on Radio 3 before the advent of 24 hour radio -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2X0ab8kiU

If memory serves, a movement from a William Boyce symphony was also used at one time.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" is why :) (May he choke on his Werthers Original).

My overriding objective when listening to Radio 4 is to flip stations before the Archers theme music kicks off! (Ditto Eastenders when watching BBC 1. Woes betides me if I don't flip before the tom-toms...)

And woe betide your radio and TV as well, I would imagine!

[Serial_Apologist]

If we are allowed the theme tune to a whole day, what better than to wake to this, played at dawn on Radio 3 before the advent of 24 hour radio -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2X0ab8kiU

Thanks for this, Bella - one of RVW's most wonderful scores - warm, generous and deeply mysterious by turns. Oddly enough I don't remember this being used at the entrée to Radio 3 in the mornings. Must've been asleep!

[Pulcinella]

Thanks for this, Bella - one of RVW's most wonderful scores - warm, generous and deeply mysterious by turns. Oddly enough I don't remember this being used at the entrée to Radio 3 in the mornings. Must've been asleep!

Mentioned in this thread:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?20636-Radio-Three-startup&highlight=Startup