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 Keith West End and Broadway stage. By 1935, Alan Keith was already an established voice on BBC radio, appearing in dozens of radio plays as a member of the drama stock company and spending three years as an interviewer for "In Town Tonight". He also acted in films, appearing in "Dangerous Moonlight" (1941), "The World Owes Me a Living" (1945), "The Long Knife" (1958) and "Yesterday's Enemy" (1959). In pre-war television broadcasts, he discovered he had a facility with American accents, and he continued to play American characters on television and radio through the 1940s and 1950s. Beginning in the early