Yorkshire Television wrote to Gary's office on 19 December, to say that they were extremely pleased with the programme, which is to transmitted on Saturday 6 January 2001 at 8pm on Channel 4.

'I think you will be quite pleased with your final position in the Top 100,' wrote researcher Stuart Ramsay, 'By the way, listen out for another Procol Harum song in somewhere in the show – you'll have to keep watching until the very end!'

As it turns out, AWSoP was ranked # 19 in the programme, and the playout music for the whole show was the coda to Pilgrim's Progress … transcript of the interviews here … list of the 100 chosen records, here