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| - Your Hundred Best Tunes was a long-running BBC radio music programme, always broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presented popular works which were mostly classical excerpts, choral works, opera and ballads. The hundred tunes which made up the playlist were initially selected by the creator and presenter, Alan Keith. Subsequently, the tunes were suggested by requests and polls of listeners. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have contentIt was first broadcast on November 15, 1959 on the BBC Light Programme under the title The Hundred Best Tunes in the World which it used until February 7, 1960, when Alan Keith's personal list of one hundred had all been played. The more familiar title was adopted from February 14, 1960 onwards. At this point it ran for half an hour from 10-10.30 pm, but from December 25, 1960 it was extended and moved earlier in the evening, running from 7.35-8.30 pm. From March 12, 1961 it adopted the 9-10 pm time slot which it would occupy for the rest of its life, on four different networks; it moved from the Light Programme to the Home Service from January 5, 1964, and remained there after it became Radio 4 from October 1, 1967, but returned to what had been the Light Programme, now renamed Radio 2 from April 5, 1970. The last show was transmitted on January 21, 2007 — a remarkable run of over 47 years. For most of this time, it was presented by the original creator, Alan Keith who continued up to the age of 94. After his death in 2003 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content, Richard Baker presented the show until its conclusion. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Holiday guest presenters included Earl Spencer and Rosalind Runcie. (en)
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