3's Faust on 4 extra

[mercia]

a Radio 3 production from 1982, part of the cross-network German season I guess

Goethe's Faust in 3 parts, today and tomorrow

Callow, Pickup, Rees
quite a long haul - 150 minutes + 90 minutes + 120 minutes - not sure I'll last the distance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lh8wr/episodes/guide

[french frank]

a Radio 3 production from 1982, part of the cross-network German season I guess

Goethe's Faust in 3 parts, today and tomorrow

Callow, Pickup, Rees
quite a long haul - 150 minutes + 90 minutes + 120 minutes - not sure I'll last the distance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lh8wr/episodes/guide

Wasn't there a more recent Faust on Radio 3?

[mercia]

quite possibly - 4 extra likes to dig up the old(er) ones

[aeolium]

Wasn't there a more recent Faust on Radio 3?

Yes - 2010, with Sam West as F and Toby Jones as Mephistopheles. Pretty good, I thought (still can't make head or tail of Pt 2 though)

[french frank]

quite possibly - 4 extra likes to dig up the old(er) ones

If it was 2010, I suppose it'll be coming up for a repeat on Radio 3 first, then!

[aeolium]

If it was 2010, I suppose it'll be coming up for a repeat on Radio 3 first, then!

Too old already, I fear...

[Honoured Guest]

It's a great pity that Radio Times doesn't list these broadcasts correctly.

[french frank]

It's a great pity that Radio Times doesn't list these broadcasts correctly.

How does it list them?

[Honoured Guest]

How does it list them?

Sat 1900 - 2130 Description (1/3)

Sun 1330 - 1500 [No description] as 7pm

Sun 1900 - 2100 Description (2/3)

[french frank]

Sat 1900 - 2130 Description (1/3)

Sun 1330 - 1500 [No description] as 7pm

Sun 1900 - 2100 Description (2/3)

Worthy of R3. I presume they have a similar software problem (and lack of revision sub).

[Honoured Guest]

Worthy of R3. I presume they have a similar software problem (and lack of revision sub).

This is the Radio Times magazine, not the BBC website.

[french frank]

This is the Radio Times magazine, not the BBC website.

I realise that. I wasn't suggesting that it WAS Radio 3, merely that, like most of the media, including magazines, they use new technologies. Someone forgot to fill in the gaps with copy.

[french frank]

And another [Radio 3] example where the software has inserted the composers' dates between first name and surname as:

Eric [1886-1957] Coates
Benjamin [1913-1976] Britten

Needless to say this completely destroys the possibility of creating the links to further information.

I particularly liked Ludwig van [1770 -1827] Beethoven, though Bach, Johann Sebastian/Busoni, Ferruccio seems to have even thrown the new system out of kilter.

[Honoured Guest]

I realise that. I wasn't suggesting that it WAS Radio 3, merely that, like most of the media, including magazines, they use new technologies. Someone forgot to fill in the gaps with copy.

Oh, I see - you misunderstood the error. Where I typed "Description", the Radio Times printed an actual description (!) so that was not the problem!

The problem was that Radio Times says that Sunday's afternoon and evening broadcasts are two opportunities to hear the second of three instalments (with the third and final presumably to follow next weekend), whereas in fact (as mercia in post #1 stated) Sunday afternoon was the second part and Sunday evening was the third and final.

[french frank]

Oh, I see - you misunderstood the error. Where I typed "Description", the Radio Times printed an actual description (!) so that was not the problem!

Yes, I quite misunderstood. Scrub all the following as non sequiturs. :-) Thank you for the clarification.

Though if any evidence were needed that Radio 3's drama output would not find a place on Radio 4, this is it. I think there's still a place for very long plays broadcast in a single evening, rather than divided into 'episodes' (was it Henry V/Hamlet? that R4 divided into five episodes, spread over the week? [I don't object to that totally - just not instead of full-length plays].