Like many other BBC radio shows in the era of very limited broadcasting competition, it achieved massive audiences, and is very closely identified with the time in the public mind.
[5] The show had a different presenter − often referred to at the time as a compere − every week who was either a BBC staff announcer, contracted broadcaster, actor, comedian, singer, or musician.
Amongst the more than 250, mostly male, presenters were a number who made repeated appearances including Bryan Michie, Roy Rich, Godfrey Winn, Robert McDermott, Richard Murdoch, John Slater, Gary Miller, Kenneth Horne, Sam Costa, Desmond Carrington and David Jacobs.
[6] One of the most popular was George Elrick, who sang his own lyrics over the theme music, beginning with "Dooodle-dum-de-doodle-dum" and ending with "I'll be with you all again tomorrow morning".
This 1980s radio show also produced a full set of lyrics to the original housewives choice theme tune sung by Julie Covington.