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 Gemmell Question Time programmes. He died in Brodick on the Isle of Arran on 5 July 1986. In 1942 he married Janet Ada Boyd Duncanson. Alan Gemmell Alan Robertson Gemmell FRSE OBE JP (10 May 1913 – 5 July 1986) was Professor of Biology at Keele University and a regular member of the panel on the BBC Radio Home Service (later BBC Radio 4) programme "Gardeners' Question Time" from 1950 for some 30 years. Disagreements on the programme between Gemmell and fellow panel member Bill Sowerbutts became legendary. He was born in Glasgow the son of Alexander Nicol Gemmell, a cashier,