Melodies for You

Melodies for You was a long-running BBC radio music programme, broadcast on Sunday mornings until 1992 and Sunday evenings subsequently, which presented works of light popular and classical music.

The show was merged with Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2007 by BBC controller Lesley Douglas, who appointed Alan Titchmarsh as presenter. The show was then dropped by controller Bob Shennan with the final broadcast on Sunday, 28 August 2011.

In the final broadcast, Alan Titchmarsh played personal favourites:

Gilbert Vinter and his Orchestra — The Arcadians Overture

Edita Gruberová — Der Holle Rache

Black Dyke Mills Band — The Titchmarsh Warbler

The New London Orchestra — Knightsbridge March

Iona Brown — The Lark Ascending

Jussi Bjoerling and Robert Merrill — Pearl Fishers Duet

Peter Skellern and Richard Stilgoe — Joyce the Librarian

The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines — Sunset

New Symphony Orchestra of London — The Nightmare Song from Isidore

Pat Metheny — Always and Forever

Thomas Round — Love Unspoken from The Merry Widow

BBC Concert Orchestra — Leap Year Waltz

Philharmonia Orchestra — Rose Adagio

Joyce Grenfell — Old Tyme Dancing

Manchester Children's Choir — Nymphs and Shepherds from The Libertine

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Pride and Prejudice

Shirley Jones and Gordon Macrae — If I Loved You

Huddersfield Choral Society and Orchestra — Hallelujah Chorus

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BBC Radio 2 programmes

British classical music radio programmes

1967 radio programme debuts

2011 radio programme endings