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Junction music

By Matthew Rutledge on 10/10/2009

Some of my favor­ite songs have been used for junc­tion music on BBC, or even some­times as the theme song.

In the late 1970’s, they occa­sion­ally used David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” to announce upcom­ing programs. The vener­able docu­ment­ary show “Arena” is some­thing else, though, it is simply a work of art, both visu­ally and music­ally. It uses the clas­sic song “Another Green World” by Brian Eno. I can’t think of a more stun­ningly simple intro to any TV show.

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