Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you

slide by on track to your

there,

to care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel,

and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. The Oh, That is the sound of the BBC's theme tune for World Cup 94 in the USA and is of course America from Westside Story.

Do you know who wrote that music Sam? Yeah I do because we've just been talking

about it was Leonard Bernstein. We haven't just been talking about it. We've been

googling at other one. We didn't have a bloody clue. We talked on the last

podcast about how inspired and game-changing the use of Nesson Dorma was by the

BBC for the 1990 World Cup in Italy and I think that they felt the

pressure whoever was in charge of choosing the theme tune for 94 thought follow that

yeah follow that and they went down a similar route and I

think they chose extremely well nothing will ever match Nes and dormer but but I thought

it was really good and I remember the promos for the World Cup so I was going which we'll get on to and I was tremendously excited about this trip to America and they kept running promos in the build up to it and it was such an exciting piece of music to cut together

action sequences too because it's so fast-paced and a baa-ba-ba-ba-ba you've heard

Hell yeah! Woo!

USA! USA!

U.S. And by contrast, we'll at the very end of this podcast we'll play out with the ITV

theme tune.

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