Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Radio Newsreel (Imperial Echoes)

This is "Imperial Echoes" by Arnold Safroni. Which was used as the theme to the BBC radio news programmes.

Radio Newsreel was a news programme produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation between 1940 and 1988. The programme, which eventually had four 15-minute international editions as well as a nightly 30-minute domestic version ("The News and Radio Newsreel"), broadcast in the BBC Light Programme, was composed of taped dispatches from correspondents in the field, live and recorded actuality and such other features, borrowed from the format of the film newsreel, as interviews with people currently in the news.

Outside the United Kingdom, the programme was also carried weekly on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States during World War II and as part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio programming in the 1970s. Until 1987, American Public Radio also carried the programme in the United States.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Vintage
• radio
• theme
• BBC
• News
• bulletin
• OST

[barneyboscoe]

Makes you feel like joining up again,----doesn't it !!.

[Shegelu]

@barneyboscoe Sad old racist!

[Gauntlets28]

@foden123 We still play this all the time in our school band, and to hell with the haters! :)

[Londonfogey]

I can't help hearing the crunch of Blakey's on gravel, the slap of hands on the stocks of Lee-Enfield rifles, the flutter of a union flag and some RSM screaming at the top of his voice when I hear this music.

[spd3324]

LOL!

[barneyboscoe]

if a martian heard this piece,he would know it could only be British.

[MrMickmonk]

POSITIVELY BRILLIANT wonderfull .. I remember this well hearing it on a old valve radio superb...... better times a time of better social discipline and grace

[windsor36]

Never heard this before. What a stirring tune!

[maxi1crawf]

Makes you stand up straight!

[barneyboscoe]

Arnold Safroni will be seated at God's right hand,for having written this patriotic piece of music.