Alan Keith 1950s, he devoted time to devising and presenting music programmes for the BBC. In 1959, he devised "Your Hundred Best Tunes", a programme of famous classical music, operetta and ballads. Keith chose the original 100 pieces himself. Many works were suggested by listeners and played in the programme. Thus a good many more than 100 works were played and the list evolved. Therefore, in subsequent years, a 100 Best were periodically voted for by listeners. In early March 2003, at the age of 94, he recorded an announcement that he intended to retire from the programme after 44 years. However,
Alan Dell Dell mostly presented programmes of music from the dance band and swing eras, he was also an early presenter of "Pick of the Pops" in 1956 and, in his later years, of "Sounds Easy", a Sunday afternoon programme on Radio 2 which was notable for its attention to the recordings of Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee (both of whom he pre-deceased)and Henry Mancini with the "Mancini moment". He won a 1983 Grammy Award in the Best Historical Album category for "The Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra Sessions - Vols. 1, 2 & 3. In the 1980s, with the onset of digital technology,