04-07-2024, 05:25 PM
(04-07-2024, 05:20 PM)Transmission Wrote: The live 6-hours one was yesterday, weirdly I can't find it to listen back to on Sounds but it is on iPlayer.
Dimbleby does make a couple of mistakes when talking about the election theme music though, saying that it's been used every time and goes back to the 1950s (Rick Wakeman must be older than I thought!)
Yes, Dimbleby got that wrong, "Arthur" theme was first used in their 1979 election and then the BBC used it until 1997. In 2001, it was replaced with a generic BBC version, before brought back in 2005. 2010 to 2017 BBC couldn't use it, due to rights issue over money payment to Rick Wakeman, that was resolved by 2019 when it returned in a new updated form, which we will hear again tonight, with a slightly new arrangement.