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Hello, loads of things this year seem to be celebrating their 25th birthday.

Not me sadly, it was 44 this year and one of them is the BBC news theme tune that iconic

tune which simultaneously gives me goosebumps of nervousness and excitement and the composer at David Lowe has posted a video

and social media about his creative process that led to that iconic tune.

Hi exactly 25 years ago I created the BBC news theme I did it with this sound

This is the pip or the beep. We call it. It's got that sense of accuracy and reliability because it's a clock ticking one beat every second.

Then I added this, the baseline, gives a sense of strength and solidity and depth.

Then I added some more drums to enhance that, bass drum, kick, and some high hat.

Then we wanted a big sound for the headlines, I came up with this big drum, and we can use that on every headline.

And then I went some chords and the chords are tricky, they've got to be neutral.

So I started minor going to major is that sense of anxiety going to calmness

and then in the case of adding some top layers to that and coming out to a fade.

And that's the BBC Newsfeed.

Oh, thanks to David for posting that and for giving us permission to run a clip of it. And also for coming up with such a great tune.

What I should tell you is that when you are a reporter for the BBC

and you're out on location and you're standing in front of the camera

ready to go live on like the 1 o'clock news or the news channel and you've got an earpiece in so you can hear the presenter and the production team in a studio.

While you're waiting to go on they play that music in your ear on a bit of a loop, and I don't know if that's just to

test that the line is working, or whether it's to just give you a shot of adrenaline,

so when you go on the news, you're really aware that you're on the news.

Also David Lowe did the Sunday with Laura Koonsburg theme tune as well.

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