Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (much better remembered by its later name Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme

BBC Light Programme

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2...

, BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service

British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service provides radio and television programmes for HM Forces, and their dependents, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Germany, Gibraltar, Kosovo, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Tristan da Cunha as well as a live satellite...

 until 1980. It was a request programme designed to link families at home in the UK

United Kingdom

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 with British Forces serving in West Germany

West Germany

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 or elsewhere overseas. It was a big success.

It had the memorable signature tune "With A Song in My Heart" (original played by Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra) and was presented by a variety of well-known radio personalities including Cliff Michelmore

Cliff Michelmore

Arthur Clifford "Cliff" Michelmore CBE is a British television presenter and producer. He is best known for the BBC television programme Tonight, which he presented from 1957 to 1965....

, Jean Metcalfe

Jean Metcalfe

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, Michael Aspel

Michael Aspel

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, Judith Chalmers

Judith Chalmers

Judith Chalmers OBE is an English television presenter who is best known for presenting the travel programme Wish You Were Here...? in the 1970s and 1980s, where she often appeared in a bikini.-Early life and career:...

 and Sarah Kennedy

Sarah Kennedy

Sarah Mary Kennedy MBE is a British TV and radio broadcaster. She presented her own daily early morning radio show, The Dawn Patrol, on BBC Radio 2 from 1993, before announcing her decision to leave the show on 3 September, 2010.Kennedy was honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005, when...

. Its final presenter was Jean Challis.

Bill Paull was memorable as the link man in Toronto. June Armstrong-Wright presented from Hong Kong.