 A recording of Torch's "Off Beat Moods Part 1" was chosen by Stanley Kubrick as the theme for the fictitious BBC news programme "The World Tonight", seen aboard the spaceship Discovery in the film "".Torch retired from full-time conducting with the BBC in 1972 and was appointed an MBE in 1985.He died at his Eastbourne, Sussex home on 16 July 1990 at the age of 82, having survived his wife, Elizabeth Tyson (a former BBC producer), who died six months earlier.