BBC Radio 4 Theme Music 

Before the start of Breakfast on BBC1

Where do I sign..

I heard on R4 a few weeks ago that it was actually under discussion.

are you drugged? The BBC hate this sort of thing. We love it of course. Thats why you will never hear it on what has become of the BB bloody C

I'd sign it, I was really sad when they stopped playing the UK Theme.

Michael König is that you uncle Albert?

Sorry, Charles, no, I´m just Michael König from Germany

Sorry, no, I´m just Michael König from Dortmund, Germany

What a wonderful memory

😀👍

Long wave still reaches out across Europe - long may it continue !

Being British means respecting democracy above all - we may be leaving the EU political project but we are not leaving Europe I hope France will follow us A trading bloc does not need an army I foresee a new entente cordiale after Macron is kicked out

+ None of this music was Spiegl's original composition - he simply arranged a series of extant, traditional UK melodies. I don't say he had no artistic input, but heck, these are all old British tunes.

Such a shame that the UK became a fascist, failed state and will soon break up.

Same! Although I was an undergraduate in the early 2000s!

And I did it in the 90s before school!

Well done your pride in it is rightly placed.

Thank you. I feel sorry for the rural folk who began their day (at an unholy hour) to this beautiful ayre. Politic Correctness dumped it in the bin. Very sad. Still I occasionally fire it up on my mp3, sure I wince at the Rule Britiania but there is so much more in it. Greetings from Dublin.

Nothing to to do with political correctness, just penny pinching neoliberals.

Andy B Me too! It reminds me of my days as a full-time student, when I'd wake up early during summer holidays just to hear this theme! I remember it always came around the time of the morning shipping forecast.

+Andy B And me! It takes me back to waking up early on many occasions to do my paper round!

to me this was what i listened to just before the shipping forecast pen at the ready for the area i was in

Me to

and me too

Me too.

Good.

I'm on one now! Whilst I am I would also reinstate Lillibolero to the World Service and the mono version of Barwick Green (along with the end of the piece for seriou last events)

Absolutely!

@@derekhorne8076 Vanessa Whitburn it was who took away the "doom music" from The Archers when something serious happened in it.

@G6JPG yes it was and since she is long gone (she used to be referred to as 'the beetle' on the old message boards), then they could reinstate it - though Tbf they did play it after the verdict in Helen's trial

@@derekhorne8076 "The old message boards" - or at least UMRA - lives and thrives!

Spot on. Everything that's wrong with Britain encapsulated in three sentences.

It’s a song on the radio guys, Jesus Christ this kind of shit is tiresome.

@@MarkPentler It's not just a song on the radio unless you have a shallow materialistic view of the world.

@@MarkPentler it's a British thing... you wouldn't understand...

Harry Brown Whereas you are merely a very large twunt....

Drew Lawrence at least im not a terrorism supporter

the whole point of this peice of music is that English music is only a small par of its charms. It celebrates all parts of the UK.

get well soon

@@heatedpants8437 thank you I've made a complete recovery and looking forward to Christmas 🎄🎅

@@barnyification Great!

And look where we are now!

It's the Derry Air. B

Quite true. A piece of music written by an Austrian-Jewish refugee that we welcomed with open arms, along with thousands of others.

zchen27 "Why would any sane human being remove this?"Because our 'leaders' - both in government and media - are career politicians and the ultimate rationalists in a globalised world who have taken to heart the concept (derived from a branch of English political philosophy particularly popular in America - and with Friedmanites and Thatcherites everywhere) of taking care of their own happiness. The globalised world is terrified of patriotism, lest it deprive businessmen and investment bankers (and, to grasp the significance of the latter, remember that your Mum's pension is dependent on investments). Businessmen and bankers need as many new markets as possible - free from the arbitrary control of the local voters who pay politicians' salaries - in order to maintain the illusion of continuous growth.Solution? Make sure the 'leaders' (political and CEOs) are paid fifty times more in "business" kickbacks over the course of their lives than they could ever earn serving their own public. Now - yes - all of those folk songs are stirring stuff for patriotic English, Welsh, Scotts (and, I suppose, Northern Irish - though I didn't identify that tune) people of a certain age. And, being easily stirred, we could easily have been persuaded that our way of doing things was better than, say, that of the Coca Cola Corporation (who, famously, would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony). Nothing, of course, is more threatening to the business plan of Coca Cola, MacDonalds, and all the other Corporate immortals, than a bunch of mortals who think their local way of doing things is better than the businessmen who want to use our consumption and willingness to work for ever less money to swell shareholdings in Shanghai. So, as long as corporations need to eliminate patriotism in order to guarantee growth, they will pay shedloads to our self-serving 'leaders' to ensure that nationalism stays bottom of the media agenda and that stirring music is not played to the nation every morning at 5am. In that light, the cancellation of a theme of odious, non-inclusive folk-music, is perfectly sane - and the guarantee of a comfortable retirement. Simples.

Because in the UK the main political parties despise anything or anyone who is vaguely patriotic or traditional and doesn't fit in to their liberal globalised multi-culti world view.

+Eric Colvin I think this is a very good analysis. I'm interested in how you think resurgent nationalism such as that in Scotland, Wales, Catalonia etc fits in with this. Presumably this is tolerated by supranational organisations such as the EU, because a host of small nations would be actually more dependent on a European superstate, rather than free of it?

I think the keyword is sane! It is up to the voters to make this issue important enough matter at the voting booth, period.

+Eric Colvin The Northern Irish tune is the Londonderry Air (Danny Boy is sung to the same tune).

Cool x

It was John Prescott who said that the Royal Tournament should be replaced by an event with less British involvement and involvement of EU armed forces. The Royal Tournament, and its successor the British Military Tournament, are now both gone. Now doubt it was an embarrassment for our Government to celebrate our own heritage.

Well I think with the Tournament that was a different thing entirely. From what I remember, the thing was generating some serious losses towards the end-which is hardly the best thing for a charitable event to do. The Tournament couldn't have lasted. It had nothing to do with "celebrating heritage" or not.

because they can't find any one else to blame perhaps?

Because, sadly, Auntie doesn't have the pride in us that we have in her

Apparently news is more important,

News IS more important.

The Beeb would rather cover up child abuse within house and is run by a bunch of tossers, used to rate the BBC now detest it. Radio 4 used to be great now it bores me with it's mindless dross and the news coverage is a joke.

I have no pride in auntie, none at all.

That's not the same