| SOURLIMBO | 1968 track by American band Booker T. and the M.G.'s famous as the opening theme of BBC Radio's Test Match Special (4,5) |
| ALSO | "___ Sprach Zarathustra" (opening theme of "2001: A Space Odyssey") |
| HITCHER | He wants a lift from successful track by American singer (7) |
| BEAMON | 1968 track and field gold medalist |
| TRIFLING | On radio, test with cast is insignificant (8) |
| HEXAMETER | Line of verse of six feet, such as the opening line of Homer's Iliad (9) |
| ONCEUPONATIME | Words used as the opening of many children's stories (4,4,1,4) |
| SOAPOPERA | Type of serial whose first British example was BBC Radio's Front Line Family (1941-8) (4,5) |
| ETH | Character played by June Whitfield in BBC Radio's Take It From Here (3) |
| GOONS | BBC Radio's Python-influencing Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, and Harry Secombe, collectively (5) |
| STAX | Booker T. & the M.G.'s and Otis Redding's record label |
| ONIONS | Green ____, 1962 instrumental composition by Booker T. and the M.G.'s (6) |
| GREENONIONS | Booker T. & the M.G.'s hit |
| ISLAND | Desert - Discs; with the opening theme By the Sleepy Lagoon, radio programme where guests are invited to imagine themselves as castaways (6) |
| ALLSTAR | Song by American band Smash Mouth, featured in the opening credits of the 2001 film Shrek (3,4) |
| VICENZA | This Italian city is famous as the home of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio and his successor Vincenzo Scamozzi. Some of the most notable Palladian structures there are the Basilica (1549-16 |
| ARENA | Edited by Anthony Wall since 1985, documentary series with the opening theme Another Green World by Brian Eno (5) |
| SOUSA | Composer of the opening theme for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" |
| ENO | Composer of the opening theme for Arena, Brian (3) |
| ENEMA | "___ of the State": album by American band Blink-182 |
