The theme music for the show was the Popular Song from the Façade suite by Sir William Walton (who was a guest on the programme in his 70th birthday year).
[1] The programme, chaired by Joseph Cooper,[2] took the form of a quiz, with a panel of three music-loving celebrities, but without scoring or any winner.
The questions to the panel were asked in a series of rounds, each with a theme, such as "The Face, The Music", where the panel would have to identify a composer from their picture, as well as the composer of the music played along with it.
[3] For the benefit of the audience at home, the music in question – which Cooper was hearing through earphones for the purpose of synchronisation – would be slowly faded in as the piece progressed.
[3] Robin Ray, if a member of that week's panel, would typically identify the opus number of the quoted works.