BBC Fifties Radio Themes - (pt.1 of 2)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- "Music While You Work", "Listen With Mother", "Desert Island Disks", "The Archers" - they're all here. If you can remember these, you're very, VERY old - like ME! For part TWO, click on • BBC Fifties Radio Them...
Feel privileged to have spent my first 7 yrs in the fifties, thanks for the memories. The days when Dad's went to work and mum's stayed at home. What wonderful days they were.
awatchwoman Sounds like we're the same age! Me - 6th September 1952.
morpheusatloppers 9 August 1952, USA
Oh I remember these! I was born March 1953, my mum stayed at home and brought us up! She never went out without a hat and gloves!
Kathryn Anderson I was born in March 1956 & mum was just the same, plus my dad ALWAYS wore a tie & never went out without a trilby hat & gloves. Happy times.
+Nibbler800: Mostly because of the disparity between property prices and incomes. People have been fooled (or allow themselves to be fooled) into thinking that rising property prices make them richer (well, it makes a select few richer...). Politicians go along with this, or actively encourage it.
God- the moment the Listen With Mother theme started, it was like plunging through a 50 year old door into a land of lost content. The lunchtime of a 3 or 4 year old. Bright, spring afternoons spent in Hove Park, Mum close at hand, and a world of absolute security. Guess thats whats called nostalgia- just didn't realise it could be quite so visceral.
I was doing exactly the same in Styne gardens in Worthing 😀😀at the time 😀😀
Gosh that really makes me feel so nostalgic for an different world, we were so fortunate to have grown up when we did, I am 70.
Thank-you everyone for your comments. It is late at night and I live alone in my 70s. Reading what everyone has to say helps me feel I have plenty of company.
So pleased for this opportunity I am 83 years old
Indeed you have Jean. I worked for the BBC in the 70s and was so proud to be part of this wonderful organisation. Happy listening!
@@johnmh1000 You're right. Three thumbs up per month! What a shocker.
@@johnmh1000 I did as well, for Radio 3 etc.
@@pamelafrancis4476 Thanks Pamela, I think we're part of a special breed! I wasn't in front of a microphone or camera, but still felt part of a great British institution!
Sat in my armchair listening, the Dolly Suite starts playing, I glance at the photos of my late parents, and the tears start to flow.
So many memories, some sad, many more happy ones, but all cherished.
May they rest in peace and rise in glory.
Totally understand. I see my grandpa in his rocking chair by the fire, my grandma in her crossover apron and floured hands where she’d be baking while popping into the sitting room every now and again to listen to the radio while her ‘bakes’ were baking. Lump in my throat
Sat at school listening to this in the afternoons. High Windows you couldn’t see out of, huge fireplace in the classroom. The only source of heating. The teacher had to keep topping up the coal. 1960s Sunderland
It came on the radio as I was driving to Manchester 40 years ago . My dear Dad had died some weeks before and I burst into tears. How powerful music can be. I still think of him every day.
I only found out recently that the Listen With Mother theme was the Dolly Suite by Faure…it is a pity children aren’t introduced to this calibre of music these days…instead of pop and rap
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” So true, like mourning a dear but long departed friend.
I am 80 now and been in Australia 60 years. Hearing all these lovely themes from my young days is just marvellous! Thank you and all the best for Xmas and 2023.
I am 70 and have not really been deeply nostalgic about the past, only looking back in general etc to remember my life in the wonderful cultural explosion of the sixties etc..BUT as soon as I heard this compilation I was immediately fully transported back to the 50’s and the seemingly secure and comfortable time of a child doing childish things while the ‘wireless’ played on and then the excitement that a theme tune engendered when it would be time to listen intently…..the power of the familiar sound and music must never be underestimated…excellent , well done
It was easier to make ends meet back then! My mother used to get a weekly shop for under £1 and it was delivered by the Order Boy! People did not have cars and were therefore much fitter! My parents had 3 of us and we never went without! They were simply the very happiest of times!
Greetings from New Zealand. "This is the BBC from London. And now we present The Archers, Around The Horn, Hancocks Half Hour, The Men From the Ministry, The Goon Show, Take it From Here, ".....etc. Ahh those were the days before TV there was RADIO.
Heaven!!! brings back memories of my mother cleaning out the grate from the night before and relighting for yet another day, while I played with my toys. All of the tunes now mean so much to here them again...many thanks!
......my mother too got THAT job! It was sooooooooo cosy when it got going though and when lit we'd sit down in front of it with a warm drink and listen to
" Listen with Mother I never wanted to go to school..
I remember cleaning out the grate too! I took over from my Mum when I was old enough.
Makes me realise just how hard my mum and dad had to work. Thanks mum and dad!!
It takes me right back to being at my granny's house and listening to the radio, sorry, wireless......" The time is a quarter to two and now it is time for Listen with Mother with Daphne Oxenford...."
...."are you sitting comfortably? then I'll begin"........
@@elizabethsheffield6609 ..."are you sitting comfortably? then I'll begin"........even as little as 2004 I used to say this while reading bedtime stories to my kids.
The wonderful Daphne Oxenford - loved seeing her in "Midsomer Murders"
We were happy as children in the late forties and fifties .
Yes margaret i could not agree more with you, it was wonderful times to live in as i like to say thank god i lived in those days, margaret may i surgest to you if you may not know you can iisten to the uk 1940s/and50s radio station on your laptop and listen to all the great music we would listen too Tony
how wonderful to hear all these tunes again,from when the BBC had the ultimate respect from everyone.unlike today !
VERY OLD? I'm a very young 70. I do love a bit of nostalgia though.
Diana Spadaccini. I'm 74 now Diana, and to me, the fifties were great. Not a lot of money to go around but such happy memories from those times.
im 76 diana
You think this is old, try listening to Purcell
@@simontaylor2319 Hi Simon, I'm actually a great fan of Purcell. Our band likes to play a bit of baroque now and then.
Quite true my friend we didn't have a lot but I had a happy childhood I'm 73 wish I could be young again 😉
My God, this was both a wonderful listen and deeply sad - amazing the power music has over you. I hadn't heard some of these for 50 years or more and yet I was instantly back in our old house in Thames Ditton, with my mum and sister. Thank you for uploading these.
My young days alive again. Thanks.
I'm now 76 and remember the wonderful BBC radio programmes these theme tunes represent. The radio then, before the advent of TV in everyone's house, was an entry to such a wonderful array of programmes, including Children's Hour before I was old enough to engage in wider broadcasts.
Doesn't it feel great to be 'really, really old' and to have lived in the best times and still be blessed with a brilliant memory . Mum & Dad where are you. Love and miss you both so much. Thankyou for a wonderful life xx.
The background music of my childhood. Great memories. 📻❤😎
Lovely, happy days.....doesn't matter the age of the music, good music is entertaining whatever it's genre or age
Wow! Amazing what the internet does. This takes me back nearly 60 years, to when i was a little boy of 4, listening to Listen With Mother, or Music While You Work which was broadcast over the beach through loud speakers (amazing now to think of it!) then later on when I was in hospital and the radio was my companion, listening to Desert Island Discs, Sailing By, and so on. Thank you!
People who still enjoy this nostalgia,can never grow old,it keeps us in the 50s (thankfully)
I am, you are right, but I just love these tunes, can they be compared to the stuff we have now, day in day out, I dont think so.
thank you for this great bit of radio musical history from my childhood.
regards Colin uk.
born in 1955 i can remember these radio tunes been a long time ago always think about my dear old nan and grandad whenever i hear them thanks for the trip down memory lane
Love it - evokes happy memories of a happier and kinder way of life. More please!
It's been a long time since I listened to these programs. Love these old tunes.
More civilised music from a more civilised time.
Thank You for creating a little magic in this bleak world
"In Town Tonight" - I recall it on the wireless in New Zealand when I was a kid in the 1950s. In fact most of these bring it all back.
We may grow older but somehow these musical mementoes of another age do not!
Thank you for the pleasure of their company again.
Born 1931. Wonderful stuff. Let's play 'em all over again
born in 1941 the family would spend hours all sitting round the radio.whether it was dick barton or one of my favourites,journey into space.great memories.
Peter Stannard . 1941. 'Snap',
, planes roaring overhead in the Vale of York. "what's that Aunty?" (as we stood in the middle of the road). "It's VE Day David." at 4 years old i had never heard of acronyms.
+David Cockerill Same experience David.I was 'made' in 1941. I lived 8 miles from Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory, and can just-remember them roaring over our house while I sat in my pushchair in the garden. VE day---roads closed to traffic, huge bonfires in 'em, pianos out in the street, repeated in August for VJ day. No one could forget that time.
Ah, "Journey Into Space"! What a classic! Must have been hell for anyone called Whittaker. "Orders must be obeyed without question at all times."
journey into space used to frighten me ha ha
The name Whittaker still gives me chills over 60 yeas later!
Brings me back to my childhood. UK was a happier place then.
I went looking for the theme tune for Dick Barton special Agent, found it's name and heard it again for the first time in decades. I also found this very pleasant memory filled video, and read all your lovely comments. Thank you all! especially Gwenda Darcy who has a similar opinion to mine regarding those times. I am an ex soldier my self, though long after the war, but I think of all those grand lads who went, and never came back, my uncle Bill being one, my cousin [young Billy] never met his Dad, also My Grandad was killed in the First World War. As Gwenda says, we were all pulling together in those days, sad times, but also so many happy memories too, and the tunes here help bring them back. Thanks again.
Thank you for sharing your story
I spent ages looking for this in the 1980s and eventually found it on an LP of BBC theme tunes. I used to listen to it at my nan's on the wireless.
Yes - Sunday lunchtime and Forces Favourites which then became Family Favourites, Billy Cotton Show, Round the Horne, The Huggetts?? - I remember them well!!
A Life of Bliss,Round the Horn,Breakfast With Braden,The Navy Lark, Ray's a Laugh, The Huggets, Beyond Our Ken, Men from the Ministry. Any more?
I forgot Life with the Lions!!
@@brendagilson934 Take it from Here, Clitheroe Kid, Whack-O, The Glums.................
@@ElizabethA48 Just remembered. Breakfast With Braden. Sing Pearl❤️
Listening to all these on the British Relay system - Light Programme/Home Service/Third Programme AND Radio Luxemburg!
Great compilations, thanks for bothering to do it. 8-)
Even with rationing, etc, I loved the sheer simplicity of life then, Even if things were grim, we didn't realise it, as everyone else was in the same boat!
My pleasure. At the time I uploaded this, these pieces were hard to find (they weren't on UA-cam). So I went all over the Interweb in search of them. And having found and compiled them for myself - I then decided to SHARE...
I'm sure I won't be the only wrinkly who will enjoy them. Mind you, a pal tells me that nostalgia ain't what it used to be. 8-)
J Burden Funny thing is, I recall those days being in black and white. Not just the TV and most movies - but in ACTUAL LIFE!
morpheusatloppers Right. Nowadays we don't even know we're confused. Not even me.
morpheusatloppers After watching several Laurel & Hardy films In the 1980's, my 8yr old nephew asked--was everything Black &White in those days?
I forgot to say on part 1, Sunday lunch was always ready for the start of 2 way family favourites - love that show.
Better than what took its place.
Some of these tunes take me right back to my childhood!
Good to hear these again. Great standard of entertainment
......no Brownie Point Scoring for them - for how many times they can say F*** in a programme, like these days.
Music that takes me right back to my childhood in the UK, listening to the radio. My sister and I used to sneak downstairs to sit with my grandmother while she listened to the Archers. Mum & Dad had gone out to the pub and we were supposed to be in bed. Wonderful memories.
I can remember that picture appearing on 78records back in the 1950s
Brilliant! bought back loads of memories.
Nostalgia doesn't begin to describe hearing the 'listen with mother' theme again. It brought tears to my eyes. The old radio I listened to it on needed a minute or so to warm up. Mum knew this & anticipated it, so I was ready to hear auntie Daphne Oxenford. Mega thanks for uploading this trip down memory lane.
Excellent loved the radio as a child my mother made us listen to the scary journey into space so she wouldn't have to buy laxatives.
lolololol!
'Desert Island disks' was composed by Eric Coates, who also composed 'The Dambusters March'.
Yes Mum at home while most dads worked. But to the person who said it was easier to make ends meet then, I don't believe that is true. Most people had second-hand furniture, few families could afford a car. Children wore hand-me downs and our clothes were repaired rather than thrown away and replaced. Our parents really did scrimp and save (just look at how the amount we spend on our children at Christmas has changed over the years) We had holidays - if we were lucky - at seaside resorts a train ride away from home. True, many people nowadays are struggling to make ends meet, but it also has to be said that in many other cases, both parents work so that they can have a car each, expensive holidays, brand new furniture and trendy clothes.
The big difference between now and then was that people (by and large) did not get into debt. They scrimped and saved, but didn't owe anything, and usually saved. That's how my parents were anyway, even though only one of them was working (at least until I was about 12 or 13). They rented their house, so no mortgage debt. No credit cards of course. The occasional bit of H.P. perhaps, but paid off asap.
Mike W Ellwood I agree that our parents didn't get into the same level of debt in general. But my point is that if their demands for the 'good life' had been the same as those of young people today, debt would have been their only option. So many things have changed since then it is difficult to make a true comparison (growth of the consumer society, dearth of social housing, vast increases in house prices, the expectation that we drive our own car, being just four factors). I don't think my children have it easy raising a family, but neither did I, nor did my parents. Anyway it was wonderful going back to childhood for a few minutes, listening to these themes! Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.
+Linda Whyte I wasn't criticising the younger generation (or my own generation). You are right; there is no comparison between today and that postwar period (late 40s, early 50s). For one thing, because of rationing and shortages, there wasn't all that much to spend money on, so less temptation to get into debt, not that that generation would have wanted to, anyway.
Today it's just a bit too easy to get into debt. Housing costs are the big problem. Something has gone very wrong when there is such a disparity between average incomes and housing costs. I don't think it can go on much longer as it has been doing. Something has to give.
But on a lighter note, yes, I really enjoyed being reminded of childhood days. I'm lucky that my mother is still alive, and we often talk over the "old days" together.
Another big difference today is that STUFF (TVs, cars, clothes, furniture, etc.) is a lot CHEAPER in relative terms (using wage-comparison, rather than the RPI). In them days, huge taxes on cheap imports kept jobs going - but the cost of goods HIGH. So today, STUFF is cheaper - but you need to have one of the few JOBS still available, to be able to afford to BUY it! I'm 64, BTW.
Another big difference today is that STUFF (TVs, cars, clothes, furniture, etc.) is a lot CHEAPER in relative terms (using wage-comparison, rather than the RPI). In them days, huge taxes on cheap imports kept jobs going - but the cost of goods HIGH. So today, STUFF is cheaper - but you need to have one of the few JOBS still available, to be able to afford to BUY it! I'm 64, BTW.
Yes, I remember them all, good to hear them again.
I remember the 50s, the early 60s and the earlier mid 60s in England and they were wonderful days as you say with Dad at work and Mum at home.
dad at work ? --you were lucky--my dad had a bone complaint called --idle.
I’m seventy, and all I can say is those days were shit compared to today.
I missed those kind of days too. Now mom and dad both have to work, nobody watches after the kids, which is absolutely a nightmare as kids are easily groomed
Listening to the `radio` themes back then were always worth a listen. Today,I rarely turn on a radio considering the content? No, take me back to when the world was worth listening too??
Do you never listen to Radio 4 or Radio 4 Extra (both available on iPlayer), plenty of content there ... some from the 50s actually! (R4Extra that is).
@@mikewellwood1412 prefer the wireless what's now called the radio
plenty of good music on now its just not to your taste
@@mikewellwood1412 Radio 4.....Id rather watch the cat using the litter tray
@@mikewellwood1412 ........ I.have one of my radios tuned to Radio 4Extra ALL THE TIME........full of cherished memories of actually listening with my now deceased mother - but she never understood what I found SO funny about the Goon Shows! R.I.P mum xx
Thanks for uploading. Gentlier and happier times.
Amazing, thanks so much! How many of these I could not have recalled 'on demand' but as soon as they started, each was perfectly familiar and I could remember every note! Closest thing to time travel, that little girl of fifty+ years ago is obviously still right there inside! Yes, a vanished sunlit time, of course we had no idea of cold war tensions or others' want, just our own charmed circle of happy security, as children should. A modest life by today's standards, but more than enough...
Listening to the "Dolly Suite" brings tears to my eyes!
Elizabeth Ward I know what you mean. It was another World - a simpler time - and it ain't coming back...
Thanks. I was scrolling through the messages to find the title that I had forgotten. Dolly Suite, of course.
In fact, you can make your world as simple as you would like, you know.
@@morpheusatloppers No, but Faure's music can still be played, many fine performances of the same music. So, Elizabeth, don't be sad!
Fantastic! Another time... and another era. Thanks for uploading.
Such memories! Suddenly I'm a child again.... Thank you!!
Thanks for this compilations.... all our yesterdays! And yes, we are also very old! Memory Lane is great, isn't it?
Memories of my mum falling asleep on winter afternoons near Xmas (that must have been 'Listen with....)
Now I'm seeing trolley-buses gliding up Ilford High Road :-)
Wonderful. Th e tunes and the ideas were listenable !
Pity the BBC does not have any standards anymore.
Thanks for posting brought a tear to my eye.
Are you sitting comfortably ? Then I'll begin :)
I remember listening to this as a child , when I think of what it was like back then it almost seems like it different world now. They where by far better times then 😀
Proper homes with a civilised way of life. Never to return. we gave the same to our children with mum at home till they were in their teens.
So in a thousands of years in civilisation we have had 20 years of normality from the end of WW2 to 1967 ?
'...we were poor, but we were happy...' lol. this time, that time, never to return, NEVER. Thank your lucky stars :)
Johnny I personally think it was the fact that the country was pulling itself back together..people pulled together, neighbours cared about one and other, children and grown up had heroes to look up to, to aspire to, hope, desire, dreams, they longed for things, we had very little of anything so Santa and birthdays were so much to look forward to to treasure, mums only concern in life was the home, the children and her husband and parents, she valued all of it.....loved her role in life, while father lived his role as the breadwinner, the authority in the home, ...
Now if you even see a neighbour to chat to your very lucky indeed, but mist wouldn't be there for you if you really needed them, yes there maybe a few ....we have no real heroes, boys have footballers to look up to, who spit, fight amongst themselves and pass out racist remarks, earn disgusting amounts of money....nothing to want really or long for as we are now growing a generation of excess and have done for many years now, ....what more is there....toys are fast becoming a thing of the past, we don't even communicate properly any more...mum has to go out to work financialky or because she wants to....feminists have ridiculed the role of mother in the home, as if it is a degrading job, now we have latch key kids,maids on drugs kids killing each other, kids going missing....dad doesn't know what role he should be playing, as supposed to be equality in the home, Sod the kids...they will be ok....I for one consider myself lucky to have lived in the fifties, and I preferred it, .....I liked longing for a particular toy, ....for Santa to come,.....a birthday tea....loved playing in the snow, conkers, jinx, climbing trees with the boys, Sunday school, waiting for dad outside the pub on a Sunday lunchtime with a packet of smiths crisps and a vimto, Sunday roast, mum at home after school, mum there when you were ill, mum there cooking, looking after gran and grandad....wonderful days I woukd go back tomorrow
@@gwendadarcy7514 I want to come for tea and cookies at your house.. Those days were awesome.. 🙌🙌😀😀😀🎅🎅🎅🎅🎅🎃🎃🎃You forgot to mention penny for the guy and throwing bangers in the street.. 😀😀😀😀😀🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
Hey, CHILL! My description of MYSELF as "very, very old" was intended only for self-deprecating amusement. At, currently, SIXTY - I still feel like a TWENTY-year-old (whenever I can find one).
Bloody smartarse youngsters of 60. Wait until you have turned 70 and then you may rightly comment. But keep up the good work with the 20yo contingent.
coming up to 73 my eyes still spot a good looking girl but my legs will never catch up PS happy memories of the music
I remember this well but can't remember where I put my glasses, does that qualify me as OLD?
Absolutely wonderful, born in 1950 so all these tunes evoke great memories of my childhood
I was born in 1946... same as you, memories, parents, desert island disks... !
Terry Fleming Any advances on 1938? I must have been about 10 when an Uncle brought the first TV to our town in North Devon. Awful quality, but worse than none at all.
Bob Loosemore Haha.... No advances on 1938, but I remember when i was three (1949), in east London (when there were only five parked cars to a street), my grandad had bought a tele, you know, big wooden box with a silly little black screen. Anyway, it was the only tele on the street, and all the neighbours trooped in to look at the damned thing. What else ? Ah yes, ration books, for soap and cheese, butter and meat. One thing's for sure, life was slower then, and people had time to say hello to each other.
Five parked cars? Luxury! We only 'ad four wheels and a board in ower street, and that were Mam's ironin' board....
@@terfle1106 .......living in North London my family had to traverse all the way over to a South London aunt's house who was the only family member to have a TV in 1953, to watch the Coronation.
great music your never old if u have a song in your heart and laughter john...what a lovely day for standing on the roof and saying hows that misses for a flag pole
I felt exactly the same as phaasch on hearing the Listen With Mother music. Thank you so much for sharing this, morpheusatloppers!
What about "Paul Temple" and the heme tune "Coronation Scot?'
4.08: Heard this tune on a tv programme and hubby and I were desperately trying to identify it. I threw out all sorts of suggestions - all of them wrong! I googled several word combinations to try to identify it ( I had an inkling when it was from ) and that led me here! I found it, I said! Hubby has an app called “Shazam”. It “listened” and it identified the tune for us - “In A Party Mood”! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😁
Now this is what I'm looking for.. 😂😂😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🙌🙌🙌🐭
Thanks for uploading these. Whilst I don't remember the programmes, (wasn't born till 1963!) these tunes are somhow familiar and very comforting.
I love the effect good music has on the soul.
So once again, Thanks for uploading! :-)
When life was simpler and people were nicer
The Archers, Desert Island Disks, Down your way, (or Up your End as Kenny Everett used to parody it) Housewive’s choice, listen with mother, Music while you work..and I’m only 48. Lol. I tell you, we’ve lost such a defining sense of identity over the years, English light music defined our way of life and our sensibilities. I think you’ll be hard pushed to find another genre of music that so suits the people, the era and the country it represents.
Thanks Morph
For bringing back many happy times of long ago in the early to mid 50,S most people around where i lived in Ashton under lyne did not have a television and the only form of popular entertainment was the radio especially Radio Luxemberg ,many thanks for reviving manyhappy memories..
Nothing much has changed I buy all my clothes and furniture from charity shops.
Ditto and I was a stay at home mother,worked part time when my son was at school,or did out work through the late 1980's.I live on a street with neighbours who help each other,speak but don't interfere,doors unlocked and no problems..very happy
I haven't quite lived long enough to rightfully claim nostalgia but never the less, I am nostalgic. Perhaps for something I've never known.
I remember these themes as a child in the 50s in England when I enjoyed listening to the wireless.
We had no TV them days dad use to tune his radio wish he was here see today he would be amazed
IM"E EIGHTY what nostalgia bread and dripping, rations, and hand me downs.
......and when SUGAR came "off Rations!" LUVERLY! And the new NHS Dentists made a fortune filling all us kids rotting teeth because of SUGAR.
Fabulous compilation. Thank you!!!
Probably in the top 10 best themes,No3 is ' Whitehall ' -Down Your Way, No 4 is ' In A Party Mood '- Housewives Choice ( a bit non-PC today ! ), No 5 is ' Calling All Workers ', the masterpiece from Eric Coates that motivated the Country during the war, was used from then till 1967 and the closing of The Light Programme as the theme for Music While You Work, all classic stuff !.Well done for posting.
takes me back
if you still yern for the simpler times of 19050's BBC radio don't panic, just go to radio 4 extra on i player radio. it's all repeated there, from Hancocks Half Hour and the Goon show to Paul Temple and Dick Barton and out into space with things like Earth Search. Just sayin'
UNKLE POPOFF don’t start me off fella,,a true nostalgia trip this one,😀😀😀👍👍
No, if you want nostalgia then don't bother with 4 Extra as it's mostly contemporary stuff. Find Pumpkin radio or Abacus radio. Their many stations cater for British and American Old Time Radio. Make no mistake American production values in the 40's and 50's are easily as good as those of the BBC. Go to Radio Echoes, again via the internet, where you can either stream or download and enjoy to your hearts content, thousands of programmes.
Nostalgia is fantastic,oh those days were lovely ,the fact we children not kids could not get sweets owing to rationing plus food was also rationed but but we boys ran wild in the parks and countryside with not a worry.
........and in London - we played cowboys on the many Bomb-Sites.
Absolutely marvelous ! I have this music on to ride my 1960s Dutch bike with wicker baskets on - ( I am 55 yrs old ) K
I remember these programmes well and used to listen as a young boy to the family radio, an Ekco U143 valve set which disappeared many many years. But a few years back I yearned that nostalgia and decided to look for the identical valve radio set and eventually found one on ebay and snapped it up for £40. The radio has been well looked after and in mint condition. Even came with it's original bill of sale from 1952 for £23 10 shillings. Or £23.50 for you young'uns!
A few years ago a colleague asked me to put an LP on CD for her. It was the actual disc used by the BBC at the start of each programme. Each track on the cover was marked with cues & timings & there was a property of BBC label on the front. I wonder how many copies there are in existance!
I have a vinyl LP album of BBC theme tunes that I bought in the late 80s or early 90s, I think. I wanted it to find a tune that I'd had in my head since the 1950s, listening to the wireless with my nan. It turned out yo be for Coronation Scot, theme tune for Paul Temple, and then it came into my head that the announcer always added, "by Frances Durbridge".
@@lindamarsden4249 Quite a rarity.
I remember it had the music from Woman's Hour on it, among many others.
@@bigtone1348 I still have it. It's a double LP and the music brings back so many lively memories.
@@lindamarsden4249 I remember 'Listen with mother' in the late 50s.
Mum was at work and I spent
Mornings at my aunt's house, listening to the wireless. Then in 1959 I started school.
6:06 the chimes then "Are you sitting comfortably ?; then i'll begin" then Faure's Berceuse. Is that Listen With Mother?.
And Dan Dare.........
Also around early 1959 listening to a play "Lord of the Flies".
Any one remember it..?? Frightened me to death..........
LOTF was/is one of the worst books around. I had to read it , actually study it in 4th year high school (1964). I was supposed to buy a copy and study it, but one read through at the library put me off it forever. It was lauded as one of the best science fiction stories ever written By people who did not read and/or understand sf. It is shit sf. It may be a study of dehumanisation in an isolated ignorant society, but in my opinion it was given its support by being written by an antiwar christan apologist. It is unrelenting 'we are all sinners and are doomed'. There is not an optimistic thought in it. War of the Worlds is better sf, as is 20000 Leagues. The list go on
You're not old - before the sloppy 'Archers', we listened to Dick Barton - Special Agent, and his sidekick Snowy. The intro was the "Devil's Gallop". Much more exciting - we hated the Archers.
Chris Williams I too was shocked when Dick Barton retired from radio, and although we were farmers in rural Devon, the Archers took some accepting - they talked too much for sure. But don't forget Jock.
Bob Loosemore and Snowy!
The Archers were set in Warwickshire, a bit different from Debon - way beyond Taunton!
Ah, "Journey into Space" and the "Flying Doctor" out of Woolamboola Base!
Yeah but Chris Williams , who gives a-----Walter Gabriel couldn't be placed with that voice, but when he, and the original main character's died---the Prog was stuffed with middle class towny twits from Mrs Dales Diary--by the sound of it.
wow, memory lane!!
Thank God for Lord Reith and the BBC. I got all my education from the BBC. Inform entertain, educate. Now that's what I call a Broadcasting Service. Much better than my convent! I knew all of Shakespeare by the time I was ten! Bravo BBC.
Show me someone who doesn't think life was better when they were a kid.....
Stefano Verdi Sadly Stefano, the prisons are full of people of such people.
+Bob Loosemore: How do you work that one out?
Better in some ways, worse in others.
If they prefer prison to childhood (and otherwise not being in prison), that's probably quite sad. At least they've found a place they've chosen and enjoy now, I suppose. Always a silver lining.
Smog - polio - coal fires in draughty, uninsulated living rooms- no refrigerator - castor oil - yes, those were the days!
I'm not that old, but I sure enjoy these classy tracks!
@charade97 - a few corrections. 'Horseguards Whitehall' was written by Haydn Wood, not Farnon. Daphne Oxenford was the 'Listen with Mother' person, not Dorothy. 'Calling All Workers' was the theme tune for 'Music While You Work', not Workers' Playtime.
@morpheusatloppers - There have been a number of compilation albums of radio and TV themes issued over the years.
What a lovely comment from alisonjamesnovelist. My sentiments exactly. A rose tinted time.
Great music.....great broadcasting organization. The BEEB is legendary.
1# Barwick Green, by Arthur Wood theme to - The Archers
2# Sleepy Lagoon, by Eric Coates, theme to - Desert Island Discs, with a copy of Shakespeare provided free😍
3# Horse Guards - Whitehall , by Haydn Wood Theme to - Down your Way.
4# In Party mood, by Jack Strachey, theme to - Housewives Choice.
5# The Dolly Suite (Berceuse) by Gabriel Faure, theme to - Listen with Mother When the BBC didn't talk down to its audience, and went for the highest common factor, not Socialist digma.
6# Calling all Workers, by Eric Coates (2nd entry) theme to Workers Playtime.
1# is named after the Green, complete with Maypole at Barwick in Elmet, just outside Leeds, about 6/7 miles from where I am currently sat in Meanwood Leeds🤩
4# In Party Mood had lyrics put to it, there is a version somewhere with the delightful Maureen Lipman singing it?
THe Bercuese by Faure is in my humble opinion timeless, I played it to the current Girlfriend only last night, on UA-cam.
Eris Coates who has 2 mentions also wrote the Dam Busters theme.
It starts at 3:19 - and is called "In Party Mood". Composed by Jack Strachey in 1944, the record was used for "Housewives Choice" - a hugely popular morning radio show that ran from 1946 'til 1967. It was a big part of British life for over twenty years.
I thought 'Elizabethan Serenade' was the music for 'Housewives' Choice'.
Five Go Mad in Dorset
I always think of another tune called Puffin’ Billy when I think of that gem of comedy.
No idea if it’s in it but it has the same ‘afternoon tea’ vibe.
It seemed that the Archers would be on at 4pm and I associate it with going to the barber for a haircut back in the 60s, Mr Renouf was the barber this was in New Zealand
Yes I have the exact same memory. We lived in Richmond Nelson at the time and the short back and sides cost 2 shillings and 6 pence.
And sitting in the chair, looking at the boxes of 'something for the weekend" and wondering what on earth it was!
@@LesD9 ......good job you never asked!