Family Favourites
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Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (also known as Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service until 1980. It was a request programme designed to link families at home in the UK with British troops serving in West Germany or elsewhere overseas.
It had the memorable signature tune "With A Song in My Heart" (original played by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra) and was presented by a variety of well-known radio personalities including Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Michael Aspel, Judith Chalmers and Sarah Kennedy. Its final presenter was Jean Challis.
Bill Paull was memorable as the link man in Toronto. June Armstrong-Wright presented from Hong Kong.
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