Melodies for You

Melodies for You

Genre	Music
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Home station	BBC Light Programme BBC Radio 2
Hosts	Eric Robinson[1] David Jacobs[2] Richard Baker (1988-1994, 1999)[3] Alan Titchmarsh (2007-2011) Brian Kay[4] Sheridan Morley[4]

Melodies for You is a long-running BBC radio music programme, broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presents works of light popular and classical music.

The show was merged with Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2007 by controversial BBC controller, Lesley Douglas, who appointed Alan Titchmarsh as presenter.^[5] The show was then terminated by controller Bob Shennan with the final broadcast on Sunday, 28th August 2011.^[4]

In the final broadcast, Alan Titchmarsh played personal favourites:^[6]

1. Gilbert Vinter and his Orchestra — The Arcadians Overture
2. Edita Gruberová — Der Holle Rache
3. Black Dyke Mills Band — The Titchmarsh Warbler
4. The New London Orchestra — Knightsbridge March
5. Iona Brown — The Lark Ascending
6. Jussi Bjoerling and Robert Merrill — Pearl Fishers Duet
7. Peter Skellern and Richard Stilgoe — Joyce The Librarian
8. The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines — Sunset
9. New Symphony Orchestra of London — The Nightmare Song from Isidore
10. Pat Metheny — Always And Forever
11. Thomas Round — Love Unspoken from The Merry Widow
12. BBC Concert Orchestra — Leap Year Waltz
13. Philharmonia Orchestra — Rose Adagio
14. Joyce Grenfell — Old Tyme Dancing
15. Manchester Children's Choir — Nymphs And Shepherds from The Libertine
16. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Pride and Prejudice
17. Shirley Jones and Gordon Macrae — If I Loved You
18. Huddersfield Choral Society and Orchestra — Hallelujah Chorus

References

1. ^ Socialist commentary, 1967, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBMEAQAAIAAJ 
2. ^ Screen international film and television directory, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GOZkAAAAMAAJ 
3. ^ International who's who in music and musicians' directory, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BeTBnjmnypEC&pg=PA33 
4. ^ ^{a b c} Alan Titchmarsh With Melodies For You on Radio 2 comes to a close, BBC, 18 August 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/08_august/18/melodies.shtml 
5. ^ Paul Donovan (November 9, 2008), Ross and Brand: Radio 2 clean up their act, London: The Times, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5108145.ece 
6. ^ Alan Titchmarsh with Melodies for You, BBC, 28 August 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013wplp 

External links

• BBC website