THEME FROM ITV SCHOOLS SERIES “PICTURE BOX“ - “MANECHE“ BY JACQUES LASRY

Probably the best-remembered theme to Granada’s ’Picture Box’ programme for schools, used from I think the mid-70s until the programme’s relaunch as part of Channel Four Schools in 1993. The tune is called ’Maneche’ and is by the French composer Jacques Lasry. It is played on a ’cristal baschet’ (or crystal organ), a musical instrument that produces sound from oscillating glass cylinders. Alan Rothwell was the presenter during the ’Maneche’ era.