British Radio and Television Theme Tunes : Introduction

Following on from my difficulties with the PRS and MCPS in the UK, I’m starting a new site built around British Radio and Television Theme Tunes. The site will be of interest to British people all over the world, but will be of less interest of an American audience. Since I cannot put up the actual music files on this site, my intention here is to reference the source of procurement. History has been well represented by radio and television themes, and this is an attempt to catalogue some of the major works. I hope that you enjoy this new section of “Sterling times”.

NEWS UPDATE! As many of you already know, I have been approached by both the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performance Rights Society (PRS) in the United Kingdom urging me to license music clips on my site. It is complicated obtaining the necessary permissions and expensive given that quotations indicate a price of £881 (including VAT) a year. I have reluctantly decided to remove all music files from the relevant sterlingtimes.co.uk servers. I am continuing to point to music files on third party sites.

INDEX

Radio and Television Music Themes 01 – Favourite TV Themes

Radio and Television Music Themes 1 – Great British Experience

Radio and Television Music Themes 2 – This is Henry Hall

Radio and Television Music Themes 3 – This is the return to cult fiction

Radio and Television Music Themes 4 – We love the pirate satations

Radio and Television Music Themes 5 – 75 Years of the BBC

Radio and Television Music Themes 6 – The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Radio and Television Music Themes 7 – The Avengers and other top sixties television themes

Radio and Television Music Themes 8 – Battlestar Galactica: A-Z of fantasy themes

Radio and Television Music Themes 9 – Radio Luxembourg themes

Radio and Television Music Themes 10 – Songs of The Ovaltineys

Radio and Television Music Themes 11 – Radio Days British 30s Radio

Radio and Television Music Themes 12 – Music of the 20th Century 1900 – 1939

Radio and Television Music Themes 13 – The Best of Monte Rey

Radio and Television Music Themes 14 – 500 British TV theme tunes available from The Music Factory

Radio and Television Music Themes 15 – Index of TV theme clips that are available on the Internet

Radio and Television Music Themes 16 – Videos still available for children’s television theme tunes – includes Watch with Mother.

Radio and Television Music Themes 17 – More videos still available for children’s television theme tunes.

Radio and Television Music Themes 18 – More videos still available: Sir Prancelot, Belle et Sebastien, and Tales from Europe

Radio and Television Music Themes 19 – BBC World of Sound with an excellent and unusual selection of radio and TV themes. Includes “Radio Newsreel”.

Radio and Television Music Themes 20 – BBC theme tunes – for instance, the BBC Radio 4 opening theme.

Radio and Television Music Themes 21 – Cult show top themes

Radio and Television Music Themes 22 – Theme tune collection at SterlingTimes