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Melodies for You

Melodies for You
Genre Music
Running time 90 minutes
Country of origin United Kingdom United Kingdom
Home station BBC Light Programme
BBC Radio 2
Hosted by Eric Robinson (1967-1970)
Kenneth Alwyn (1971)
Sam Costa (1972-1974)
David Jacobs (1974-1984)
Robin Boyle (1985-1986)
Richard Baker (1986-1995, 1999-2003)
Hugh Scully (1996-1999)
Brian Kay (2003-2004)
Sheridan Morley (2004-2006)
Alan Titchmarsh (2007-2011)

Melodies for You was a long-running BBC radio music programme, broadcast on Sunday mornings until 1992 and Sunday evenings subsequently, which presented works of light popular and classical music.

The show was merged with Your Hundred Best Tunes in 2007 by BBC controller, Lesley Douglas, who appointed Alan Titchmarsh as presenter. The show was then dropped by controller Bob Shennan with the final broadcast on Sunday, 28 August 2011.

In the final broadcast, Alan Titchmarsh played personal favourites:


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