  
I have always thought that there was a lack of programmes dedicated to playing purely instrumental music and I saw this as an opportunity to introduce 'The Music Box' - a series of thirty minute programmes. The first programme was broadcast on Thursday 8 July 1999 on Hospital Radio Tayside (later to become BRIDGEfm Hospital Radio) when the station re-opened after moving from Dundee Royal Infirmary to Ninewells Hospital. Now over sixty programmes have been recorded and broadcast on Hospital Radio throughout the UK.
Basically any track that has little or no singing can be featured on the programme - although I occasionally find an excuse for including a few other tracks as well! In addition, two tracks linked together in some way make up the 'Twin Tracks' feature in every programme. In fact, the 'Twin Tracks' feature has proven to be so popular that there are occasional 'Twin Track Megamix' programmes featuring a series of twin tracks played almost back-to-back.
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'The Music Box: Mirror Music' is an occasional hour long programme that takes the instrumental music featured in 'The Music Box' and adds the vocal versions of the same tunes. For example, if James Last and his Orchestra was featured in the first part of the programme playing 'Imagine' then John Lennon's vocal version could be played in the second part.
A mirror always gives a reflected image, and the same also applies to this programme. Therefore the first tune played will be the last song to be featured. The 'twin tracks' feature is retained in the instrumental section but this is not extended to the vocal part as this would be too limiting.
Currently 'Mirror Music' is taking a break from the airwaves. However, listings of the previous programmes can be found here.
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