finance slot

Music Another day, another Radio 4 PM related post, this time to highlight a rather lovely Christmas present from their Upshares, Downshares finance slot. Each day the report is heralded by a listener generated cover of the Upstairs, Downstairs theme (wiki). But this week, the original composer Sandy Faris was invited to play a new fully orchestrated version with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the filmed results can be seen here, along with a making of and interview with Faris about the composition in which he also gives his opinions of the listener contributions. This is clearly the version which should be used on the revival of the series.