On This Day, 1967: Face the Music
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Face The Music, 1976 (Standing) Joseph Cooper (left), the master of ceremonies, with producer Walter Todds. (Seated, left to right) the team; Robin Ray, Joyce Grenfell and David Attenborough.
Classical music quiz Face the Music premiered on BBC Two on August 3, 1967.
Producer Walter Todds introduced the quiz on a Radio Times magazine article as "the first television series about (non-pop) music and a "not too serious test of your musical wits."
Chairman and pianist Joseph Cooper would put questions to three music lovers - and although they promised that "no question to the panel is so difficult that the average concert or LP addict shouldn't at least have a shot at answering", the first programme included competitions such as "spotting an opera scene that is done to the wrong music" and "untangling one of Cooper's hidden melodies."
The programme ran until 1979 with some revivals in the 1980s, and regular panellists included Robin Ray, Joyce Grenfell and David Attenborough (pictured in 1976).
