"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
The version of Sailing By that Radio 4 use is not available
commercially. ..."

from the description of the same BBC link...???

This may no longer be the case (or it was probably re-recorded)

To the best of my knowledge it's still the library version. It's near
impossible to produce a 'new' version that sounds exactly the same.

Agreed, and yet the time frame seems odd, if the library version
(Chappell, I believe) was recorded in the 80's and there is a
commercial version conducted by the conductor who died circa
1973.

Usually, music libraries licence material for commercial release
*after* it has become famous as a theme tune from a TV series.
("The Power Game" Granada TV comes to mind)

Iain