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Friday Night is Music Night comes live from the Mermaid Theatre in London with a salute to the soaps. Featuring songsters from the worlds of Emmerdale, Walford and Weatherfield.

Friday Night is Music Night comes live from the Mermaid Theatre in London with a salute to the world of soaps.

As Coronation Street celebrates 50 years on the air - Friday Night is Music Night (which itself boasts a mere 58 years of broadcasting) salutes the worlds of the soap opera. Love them or hate them - they are big business and here to stay. Soap operas took their name from the big soap firms who on commercial networks sponsored the programmes. Today they make us laugh, cry, tackle social issues and keep us on the edge of our seats with the weekly cliffhanger or "duff duff" moment. Tonight, Ken Bruce presents conductor Mike Dixon and the BBC Concert Orchestra who perform the themes to The Archers(Barwick Green); Emergency Ward 10(Silks and Satins); The Grove Family; Dick Barton(Devil's Galop); Peyton Place and Dallas and Dynasty.

Guests include Tony Hatch - who conducts the orchestra in a selection of his soap signature tunes - including - Emmerdale; Crossroads and Neighbours. For the finale Friday Night is Music Night welcomes the cast of Rogues, Angels, Heroes & Fools - Coronation Street The Musical .

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Fri 3 Dec 201020:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barwick Green

    (Wood)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Dr Kildare

    (Goldsmith)

  • Wendi Peters

    The Trolley Song

    (Martin/Blane) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Dallas

    (Immel)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Looking Around – theme to the Appleyards

    (Smith)

  • Richard Shelton

    The Lady Is A Tramp

    (Rodgers/Hart ) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Dynasty

    (Conti)

  • Wendi Peters

    Ladies Who Lunch

    (Sondheim) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Mrs Dale's Diary

    (Eric Coates)

  • Richard Shelton

    Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire/Walking In A Winter Wonderland

    (Torme/Wells) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • Tony Hatch

    TV Medley

    (Hatch) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Theme To Soap

    (Tipton)

  • Simon May

    Eastenders Theme (2009 Version)

    (May)

  • The Cast of Rogues, Angels, Heroes & Fools – The Coronation Street Musical

    The Opening Episode (Who Are You?, Them Barlows, You're Staying In, Rules Of The House

    (Spear/Ward) (Ft. BBC Concert Orchestra)

  • BBC Concert Orchestra

    Sounds Familiar

    (Various)

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Dec 201020:00
    BBC Radio 2