Your Hundred Best Tunes Your Hundred Best Tunes Your Hundred Best Tunes was a BBC radio music programme, always broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presented popular works which were mostly classical excerpts, choral works, opera and ballads. The hundred tunes which made up the playlist were initially selected by the creator and presenter, Alan Keith. Subsequently, tunes were suggested by requests and polls of listeners. It was first broadcast on 15 November 1959 on the BBC Light Programme under the title "The Hundred Best Tunes in the World" which it used until 7 February 1960, when Alan Keith's personal list of one hundred had
Alan Dell Alan Dell Alan Dell, born Alan Creighton Mandell (20 March 1924 – 18 August 1995), was a BBC radio broadcaster, associated with dance band music of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. Dell was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and graduated from Kearsney College in Natal. He joined the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1943, introducing for several years a programme called "Rhythm Club". Moving to England in the 1950s, Dell worked on Radio Luxembourg (which then had recording studios in London), the BBC Light Programme and its successor Radio 2 until shortly before his death. Dell's most celebrated