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She contacted iPM with this email:

"Hello.

So I don't know if any of your listeners (or collegues) can help me...

Saturday mornings, circa 1980, I would "help" Mum in the kitchen (I was 5) and she would be listening to Radio 4.

There was a particular theme tune, that featured a pipping flute. I know nothing about music, but I shall not let that stop me from trying to describe it!

The pipping flute would play down (1-2-3), up (1-2-3), down (1-2-3), up (1-2-3) and then a trill (with a falling note). It would repeat, then play the same refrain with higher notes and a dramatic fouth phrase.

The flute phrases would then be repeated with soaring strings in the background, to which I would dance, as if at a ball! The strings shared the qualities of the Cinderella theme, maybe that's why I loved it so.

I have searched the internet in vain for more info, and got very excited when the classic Radio 4 theme tune was put up on Youtube. So far though, I have not found the name of the show (i'm sure it was broadcast at 9am on Saturdays) however I only have to think of the tune and my childhood comes flooding back.

If you could ask around, it would mean a great deal to me to be able to share it with my own 5 year old!

Thank you,

Viv B."

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