Alan Davey, new controller, R3

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- exactly my response, too. (The idea of a different MrsT doing an Art & Design degree made me wonder if I'd dozed off!)

[Richard Tarleton]

Sorry, the penny's only just dropped I thought ff was aghast at the idea of my not having looked at a painting since student days.....

[Honoured Guest]

Thanks for that Floss, yes, my contemporary abstract art knowledge very patchy I'm afraid. I'll look out for him. My education received a boost when Mrs T was doing her art & design degree - we went to the Pollock exhibition (Tate Britain), the Rothkos at Tate Modern, etc. etc......- I read The Shock of the New......

Mrs T must despair of you! Jackson Pollock (d.1956) and Mark Rothko (d.1970) are not contemporary artists!

[french frank]

On the other hand a clear out of Sean Rafferty , Petroc Trelawney, Sarah Walker and Katie Derham would be welcome here .

I think I would take the view that they're professional broadcasters and would modify their style significantly if expected to do so, in whatever way they were asked. We'll see what the new broom thinks - it would be unfair to 'clear out' those who were doing the old broom's bidding.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think he may have been referring to the cliqueiness of presenters, in the way that they refer to one another on a first name only basis, and anyone who doesn't know whom they are referring to mustn't be a member of the cosy club.

For information: this is perhaps interesting as to the tone of the new era...





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There's his hashtag should anyone wish to be ... ahem... interactive.

[Serial_Apologist]

All this time I've had him confused with Alan Davie, the Scottish abstract expressionist painter who at one time collaborated with avant-garde and experimental musicians, and who (from my pov) could have been ideally suited to the job......... had he not passed away last year!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's his hashtag should anyone wish to be ... ahem... interactive.

Would that be "F hashtag minor"?

[Barbirollians]

I think I would take the view that they're professional broadcasters and would modify their style significantly if expected to do so, in whatever way they were asked. We'll see what the new broom thinks - it would be unfair to 'clear out' those who were doing the old broom's bidding.

Sean Rafferty was terrible long before RW the same applies to PT and KD is even worse on the TV ! Sarah Walker might deserve a stay of execution !!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Would that be "F hashtag minor"?

[Flosshilde]

Sean Rafferty was terrible long before RW

Rubbish - Sean Rafferty isn't terrible now & never has been.

[edashtav]

Rubbish - Sean Rafferty isn't terrible now & never has been.

I quote from what the BBC website says of the Man for All Seasons:

"His broad cultural sympathies mean that Sean Rafferty has established himself as one of Radio 3’s most treasured assets."

[french frank]

Sean Rafferty was terrible long before RW

"... In Tune with the irrepressibly effervescent Sean Rafferty, ad-libbing with brio, ever-inventive in dodging gaffes, tirelessly eupeptic." That was Robin Holloway writing in the Spectator in 2004. Is he wrong or are you? Or are you both merely expressing what you 'reckon'?

[teamsaint]

I quote from what the BBC website says of the Man for All Seasons:

"His broad cultural sympathies mean that Sean Rafferty has established himself as one of Radio 3’s most treasured assets."

If, and it is one of the world's great "Ifs", Ron could rid himself of his quite spectacular level of obsequiousness, and actually do some research, or read the research done for him, then a half decent broadcaster might emerge.

You can forgive broadcasters a lot of things that are not in their power to change, but those are things he could deal with.

Perhaps the brief for " In Tune" demands high level obsequiousness. ( I bet I spelled that wrong).

Sarah Walker should be given a proper show to do, and she would be terrific.

[french frank]

Sarah Walker should be given a proper show to do, and she would be terrific.

She's in the programme's straitjacket just as Rob is. That said, the R3 website also says: "Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Sarah Walker" which I find objectionable. Delete the word 'trusted' - I instantly find myself thinking, 'We'll be the judge of that.' It's just Radio 3 publicity blurb hyping everything up to the hilt.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Rubbish - Sean Rafferty isn't terrible now & never has been.

Sorry Floss but if that's your view my conscience has compelled me to sprint down to the PO and grab back that Mahler CD that was on its way to you

[I can cope with the other three, it's only SR wot does me 'ed in...]