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
Woman's Hour Woman's Hour Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey, "Woman's Hour" was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme (now called Radio 2). Janet Quigley, who was also involved with the birth of the UK radio programme Today, has been credited with "virtually creating" the programme. The programme was transferred to its current home in 1973. Over the years it has been presented by Joan Griffiths, Violet Carson, Olive Shapley, Jean Metcalfe (1947, 1958), Marjorie Anderson (until