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
Material World (radio programme) on Radio 4. The programme was presented by Quentin Cooper from 2000 to its end in 2013. Material World was one of the BBC's main conduits for up-to-date scientific news, along with "Frontiers", "Science in Action", and "Bang Goes the Theory". From 5 April 2010 the programme was repeated on a Monday evening at 21.00, in the former slot of "Costing the Earth". For a short time, when programmes on 5 Live began webstreaming with video, "Material World" was also webcast. On 14 June 2013 it was announced that the show was to be cancelled, to be replaced by a