Drowse by a sleepy lagoon with Eric Coates. Luxuriate to bells across the meadows with Albert Ketèlbey. Cherish the roses of Picardy with Haydn Wood.

We’ll attempt to lighten your load this morning on WPRB with a program of unpretentious, unapologetically melodic music, drawn from the genre known as British Light Music. Living relics of a bygone era, British Light Music enjoyed its heyday in the age of palm court orchestras and during the formative years of radio. Its antecedents reach back to sentimental music of the 19th century and works like those of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and its influence continues to make itself felt in the lighter music of John Rutter and Philip Lane.

To allow me to catch my breath and actually enter the playlist online (at wprb.com), we’ll also hear a symphony by Robert Farnon, a piano concerto by Haydn Wood, and a cello concerto by Sir Arthur Sullivan, lost in a fire in 1964, but resurrected through a remarkable feat of memory by conductor Sir Charles Mackerras.

This kind of music may not be for everyone, but it’s definitely for me. It will make for a very sugary breakfast, that’s for certain, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Trip the light fantastic, on Classic Ross Amico.