Light Programme Start-up - Page 2 - UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Discussion Forum

sp10mk11 · 3rd Oct 2015, 3:39 pm

in the 1970s I had a job as a milk boy, I used to get up at 5 in the morning to go and get the milkman up at his house so we could be at the depot by 05.30

I remember on the clock radio at 5 in the moring the chimes of Big Ben then a piece of music played on a church organ and a classic BBC male voice saying that it was 5.00, at which poimt I was up and out of bed.

I often wondered what the piece of music was, I can still remember the opening bars.

Amraduk · 3rd Oct 2015, 5:02 pm

Hello Mike,

Thanks for your reply. The sequence that you say was in the operational instruction manual is what I'd like to get for the Light Programme, the Home Service and the Third Programme. I'm pretty sure the frequency of the 'bongs' for the Light was 440Hz = A above middle C = Concert Pitch.

Regards,

Dave.

Hartley118 · 3rd Oct 2015, 5:10 pm

I think the music you heard regularly would have been Theme One, written by George Martin for the opening of Radio 1. It begins with a few bars on a pipe organ and then the orchestra comes in complete with period phasing effects.

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVpvrDeVg8

In those days, Radio 2 and Radio 1 took turns on the same FM channel.

Hope I've guessed right

Martin

sp10mk11 · 3rd Oct 2015, 5:33 pm

Martin!!!!!
he he that's it! I haven't heard this since about 1971 (I was 11)

go to the treats jar and have what you want

amazing

Thank you so much

Gary

Hartley118 · 3rd Oct 2015, 10:05 pm

I found it quite nostalgic myself!

Martin

3rd Oct 2015, 3:39 pm	#21
sp10mk11 Octode Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cornwall, UK. Posts: 1,275	Re: Light Programme Start-up in the 1970s I had a job as a milk boy, I used to get up at 5 in the morning to go and get the milkman up at his house so we could be at the depot by 05.30 I remember on the clock radio at 5 in the moring the chimes of Big Ben then a piece of music played on a church organ and a classic BBC male voice saying that it was 5.00, at which poimt I was up and out of bed. I often wondered what the piece of music was, I can still remember the opening bars.

3rd Oct 2015, 5:02 pm	#22
Amraduk Hexode Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK. Posts: 453	Re: Light Programme Start-up Hello Mike, Thanks for your reply. The sequence that you say was in the operational instruction manual is what I'd like to get for the Light Programme, the Home Service and the Third Programme. I'm pretty sure the frequency of the 'bongs' for the Light was 440Hz = A above middle C = Concert Pitch. Regards, Dave.

3rd Oct 2015, 5:10 pm	#23
Hartley118 Nonode Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Cambridge, Cambs. UK. Posts: 2,198	Re: Light Programme Start-up I think the music you heard regularly would have been Theme One, written by George Martin for the opening of Radio 1. It begins with a few bars on a pipe organ and then the orchestra comes in complete with period phasing effects. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVpvrDeVg8 In those days, Radio 2 and Radio 1 took turns on the same FM channel. Hope I've guessed right Martin

3rd Oct 2015, 5:33 pm	#24
sp10mk11 Octode Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cornwall, UK. Posts: 1,275	Re: Light Programme Start-up Martin!!!!! he he that's it! I haven't heard this since about 1971 (I was 11) go to the treats jar and have what you want amazing Thank you so much Gary

3rd Oct 2015, 10:05 pm	#25
Hartley118 Nonode Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Cambridge, Cambs. UK. Posts: 2,198	Re: Light Programme Start-up I found it quite nostalgic myself! Martin