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With Melodies for You. Featuring film scores from Around the World in 80 Days and The Yangtze Incident. Plus vintage recordings of Laurel and Hardy add a dash of comedy.

Alan presents film scores from Around The World In 80 Days and The Yangtze Incident, which starred Richard Todd and told the story of HMS Amethyst in the Second World War.

Vintage recordings of Laurel and Hardy and music hall devotee Roy Hudd provide a dash of comedy, alongside TV themes from A Family at War and The West Wing.

Classical excerpts include the Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut by Puccini and Fingals Cave by Mendelssohn.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 24 May 2009 19:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Franconia State Orchestra

    Overture: Around the World in 80 Days

  • Roy Hudd

    The Hole in the Elephant's Bottom

  • ČeskΓ‘ filharmonie - Entry of the Gladiators

  • Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Overture: Hebrides (MEDELSSOHN)

  • Louis Prima

    Buona Sera

  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Theme - Family At War (VAUGHAN WILLIAMS)

  • Brighouse and Rastrick Band

    The Acrobat

  • Diana Krall

    Where Or When

  • Orchestra conductor Leighton Lucas

    Amethyst March

  • 4 Girls 4 Harps

    La Rejouissance

  • Rebecca Luker & Chorus

    Falling in Love with Love

  • German Symphony Orchestra Berlin

    intermezzo - Manon Lescaut (PUCCINI)

  • Orchestra conductor Pete Anthony

    Theme - The West Wing

  • Laurel & Hardy & The Avalon Boys

    The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine

  • Jerry Hadley

    Tanzen Mocht Ich (KALMAN)

  • Sir Thomas Allen

    The Lost Chord (SULLIVAN)

  • Robert Shaw Festival Singers

    Pie Jesu (FAURE)

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 May 2009 19:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2