Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 282,012 playable programmes from the BBC

Jonathan King continues his ten-part survey of the music industry.
"We've got singers coming out of our ears, it's good songs we're short of," says one industry insider.
Tonight Jonathan dissects the melodies that carry the hits. What makes a good melody? Who makes them? And, in this age of sample and cover versions, is there a finite number of songs?
A Unique Broadcasting production

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan King

BBC Radio 1 England

About BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More