Finally, the album #AndTheNextProgrammeFollowsShortly with the Fast Tunes Orchestra has now been listed on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube - but still available on CD and luxury double vinyl from the Bandcamp site (see @fasttunesltd.bsky.social for details) open.spotify.com/album/0AxH9K...

This always has “Nationwide” vibes for me with its opening. #MichaelBarrattRolledOutOfBed

To celebrate #ITV70, I have released two singles - reconstructions of the famous pieces used to start the day - firstly on @itvtynetees.bsky.social, played by the wonderful #RoyalBalletSinfonia and available at all streaming platforms #ThreeRiversFantasy open.spotify.com/track/3RFmDW...

Happy 70th Birthday to #ITV - to celebrate why not have a listen to this album that celebrates the very best of broadcasting from that era… open.spotify.com/album/0AxH9KGl… @itvnews.bsky.social @classicfm.com @boomradio.co.uk

This should be the encore… youtu.be/ybR5cNr1gBQ?... #Proms

Finally, the album #AndTheNextProgrammeFollowsShortly with the Fast Tunes Orchestra has now been listed on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube - but still available on CD and luxury double vinyl from the Bandcamp site (see @fasttunesltd.bsky.social for details) open.spotify.com/album/0AxH9K...

And also my reconstruction of #Scotlandia #STV @itvnews.bsky.social #RayTerry #Geraldo open.spotify.com/track/0C5SON...

To celebrate #ITV70, I have released two singles - reconstructions of the famous pieces used to start the day - firstly on @itvtynetees.bsky.social, played by the wonderful #RoyalBalletSinfonia and available at all streaming platforms #ThreeRiversFantasy open.spotify.com/track/3RFmDW...

It’s out today! #GairlochVariations, a light piece for three clarinets and orchestra, is available on all the usual platforms, played by #DerekHannigan and #PaulAllen with the brilliant #RoyalBalletSinfonia - more releases coming soon… #lightmusic #clarinettrio open.spotify.com/album/4a6Kd9...

One? I’ll post LOTS of ‘em! @fasttunesltd.bsky.social ebay.us/m/D0o7iv

I really enjoyed this interview - for those looking for different formats of the disc can I point you to fasttunes.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne... And enjoy the podcast!

Next week's special guest

“Yipyipyipyipyipyipyip….”

On #InTune #BBCR3 @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social between 6 and 7 this evening talking about my new disc-a departure for me, or just a chance to explore a subject I’ve loved since the cradle? Tune in and find out @fasttunesltd.bsky.social #TheNextProgrammeFollowsShortly www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

DIGITAL PEOPLE! WRAP YOUR LUGHOLES AROUND THIS LOAD OF DIGITS! fasttunes.bandcamp.com/album/the-ne...

“The Next Programme Follows Shortly.” @fasttunesltd.bsky.social

“Never The Twain was shite.”

“And the twelve goes to…”

“Bandology. A great concert march.”

2 x British Broadcasting Century podcast interviews yesterday, for future eps. But you can buy their cultural wonders now... @gavinsutherland.bsky.social's The Next Programme Follows Shortly is a CD/LP of wonderful recreated TV themes & idents - a great listen www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fasttune...

INTERNATIONAL READERS: The Major has worked out how to turn International Postage back on, swearing bitterly that it used to be on by default. BRITISH READERS: The Idents EP is now inclusive of postage. Thank you so much to all of our supporters. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/fasttune...

And thus it begins… @fasttunesltd.bsky.social www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40582709...

RIP Clodagh Rodgers. Saw you in panto in Newcastle in the late 70s. And I knew this version of the song before Hump’s version (and it was a Song for Europe contender, extraordinarily…) youtu.be/Nh3FJ84RSYE?...

It’s here… And available for ordering soon, on both vinyl and CD… @classicfm.com @bbcradio3.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @bbcstever.bsky.social More news from @fasttunesltd.bsky.social

Narrator: “This didn’t happen.”

SMITHY’S KAFF! SMITHY’S KAFF! SMITHY’S KAFF KAFF KAFF!

Fred Emney Picks a Pope.

The retirement of Ronnie Hazlehurst.

“We will return to collect this bag on THURSDAY”

Looking forward to this tonight - was a delight to talk about a favourite musical subject, too often overlooked! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tune in at 8pm! #televisionmusic #itc

@fasttunesltd.bsky.social album out soon - one of the things I’ve done of which I’m most proud, and heavily influenced by Steve’s piano!! #idents #regionaltvandradio

RIP Laurie Holloway - here’s “Michael’s Theme” by Harry Stoneham…

RIP Laurie Holloway…

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Eve. The Likely Lads. Gavin has cleverly arranged this so it incorporates the different versions used across the TV and radio series, and so it lasts for longer than the original 30 seconds.

Day 23. Manège, reproduced on water-filled wine glasses. It took a fortnight.

Day 22. Television. Sung by musical star Adele Dixon on 2 November 1936 for the formal opening of BBC Television. She was appearing in Over She Goes at the Saville Theatre at the time. On that day, her role on stage was taken by Gilly Flower, later to find renewed fame as Miss Tibbs in Fawlty Towers

Day 21. Following a brief spot of public paranoia that television sets could be used to look into viewers’ homes, the BBC kicked off their experimental broadcasts to Olympia in the summer of 1936 with a song cunningly titled “Here’s Looking At You.”

The last one went missing. The Major will not be pleased.

Presenting the final running order for THE NEXT PROGRAMME FOLLOWS SHORTLY by the amazing GAVIN SUTHERLAND and the majestic FAST TUNES ORCHESTRA. It’s out on 19 March 2025, 3 months from today. Possibly sooner if they don’t hang around with the paperwork. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DESERVE IT!

Day 20. How did you spend the first lockdown? I attempted to recreate the theme to Doctor Who using techniques as close as possible to those employed by the great Delia Derbyshire. A bold experiment. The secret ingredient is a 4-speed analogue tape recorder which has a usefully springy brake.

And so the day begins in the beautiful surrounding of @SnapeMaltings where I’m with the festive BBC Concert Orchestra for #FridayNightIsMusicNight with Tony Momrelle, Petroc Trelawny and Charles Mutter - we’re live at 7:30 here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Their manuscript of this in the BBC library is one page, a total mess to read. I think Ronnie H scored it for a more conventional sound, the electric piano and saxes are very “him”

Day 19. Getting this in early before my battery conks out. Grandstand. Pete says “knowing how sports rights holders can be notoriously strong on copyright infringement, I've captured the twelve sports from the 1980 opening titles via the medium of old video games.”

A true delight to see Katie Derham again on InTune on BBCR3 to talk about my upcoming “silly season”: #BalletShoes @NationalTheatre, #FridayNightIsMusicNight live this Friday @BBCRadio3 @BBCCO, Nutcracker @ENBallet and #SwanLake from @RoyalAlbertHall on C/mas Day BBCTwo !

Day 17. A gentle reminder that our BPI* Beige Award Winning Idents EP is still available. *Benest’s Phonographic Industry www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40528402...

Day 16. University Challenge. Boing!

Day 15. A little early. Major’s orders. Early night tonight, stocktake tomorrow under intense supervision. Sara’s Tune. A tune familiar to me despite it being before my time. Mostly from hearing it in French lessons, played back from a tape older than the people watching it.

Day 14, and it’s time once again to go Nationwide. On a Saturday? This is the final theme before Nationwide became Sixty Minutes. Hardly anybody seems to remember it nowadays.

Day 13. Live From Her Majesty’s, a programme remembered today for Jimmy Tarbuck’s frequent attacks on striking miners… and nothing else.