By the sleepy lagoon – Eric Coates (1886-1957)
Herr Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht – Gustav Adolf Merkel (1827-1885)
Tu es petra et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversus tibi – Henri Mulet (1878-1967)
'By the sleepy lagoon', written in 1930, was inspired not by a tropical paradise, but by the view on a warm, still summer evening looking across the 'lagoon' from the east beach at Selsey towards Bognor Regis, on the south coast of England. In 1942, Coates's original orchestral version was chosen (with added seagulls) to introduce the BBC Home Service radio series 'Desert Island Discs', which it still does to this day on the Home Service's successor, BBC Radio 4. A blue plaque has been placed by the beach at Selsey to commemorate the composition of the piece.