Readers recommend: TV themes – results

You sent us your top tunes on the box – we broadcast the results"Your name, please."Um, Jon Dennis."Your special subject?"What makes a good TV theme.And I'm glad you asked me that, Magnus. The name of the music accompanying the opening titles (that chair!) of the long-running quiz show Mastermind was appropriately titled Approaching Menace, by Neil Richardson. Like many memorable TV themes, it began life as a piece of library music – not, in other words, commissioned especially for the show....

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