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
Easy Beat (BBC Radio) Easy Beat (BBC Radio) Easy Beat was a BBC Radio programme broadcast nationally in the United Kingdom on the Light Programme on Sunday mornings, between January 1960 and September 1967. It was one of the earliest BBC programmes to broadcast pop music. Like the contemporary "Saturday Club", it was initially presented by Brian Matthew, later by Keith Fordyce and, finally, David Symonds. It was scheduled between 10:30 - 11:30 on Sunday mornings, and regularly featured Kenny Ball's Jazzmen, and recorded sessions by featured guests in front of a studio audience. The Beatles appeared on four "Easy Beat" shows in 1963: