Radio 3 schedule changes (‘edging away from speech')

[oddoneout]

And the phrases which ring true with me:

Who is this new Radio 3 for? Not eager listeners who want to broaden their horizons, I reckon, but box tickers behind the scenes, keen to poach the Classic FM or Scala crowds who are already well served.

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It’s maddening. Controllers should treat music as a skyrocket to new places, not a sedative.

The question of who this is all for, and the answer, is what we've been saying in these parts for a long time?

[Roger Webb]

Of course it was ! oh dear…
. Was Zeppo the good looking normal one who wore a suit and could sing?
Chico wore the funny hat . Had the comedy Italian accent as in Hack ina bush?
“But there ain’t no sanity Claus.”,
To be fair Lang Lang is a very good pianist . He’s just tremendously annoying.

Yes, all correct! Zeppo wasn't in all the films, which is why he's not so well known - plus his 'normality' worked against him.

I only know of Chico as my own 'one finger technique' was gleaned from his! Did you know Chico had such a poor left-hand that it was faked when filming him....much like mine also!

[french frank]

The question of who this is all for, and the answer, is what we've been saying in these parts for a long time?

It's the constant bewildering strategy of aiming so much of the content at a mass(ish) audience which isn't listening, in the hope that they will. FNIMN might be the more cunning (if questionable) wheeze of keeping the same name, time slot and day as it had on R2. More easily recognised by the bereaved of R2 and thus easily accessed. Especially if it's talked about a lot in the press.

[Nick Armstrong]

The question of who this is all for, and the answer, is what we've been saying in these parts for a long time?

Quite…

[kernelbogey]

I liked this, in Jude Rogers's piece in the Guardian.
Radio 3’s spring rebrand, by new controller Sam Jackson, is oddly backwards-looking, its tone mollifying, wallpapery, posh; a kind of mood music for perusing private school prospectuses in one’s second home.

Edit: Oops - Frenchie already quoted that, above, but I'll leave it in place because it's so witty.

[french frank]

I liked this, in Jude Rogers's piece in the Guardian.
Radio 3’s spring rebrand, by new controller Sam Jackson, is oddly backwards-looking, its tone mollifying, wallpapery, posh; a kind of mood music for perusing private school prospectuses in one’s second home.

Edit: Oops - Frenchie already quoted that, above, but I'll leave it in place because it's so witty.

And you picked out the identical sentence! LMcD's flagged up the piece somewhere as well.

[Serial_Apologist]

I liked this, in Jude Rogers's piece in the Guardian.
Radio 3’s spring rebrand, by new controller Sam Jackson, is oddly backwards-looking, its tone mollifying, wallpapery, posh; a kind of mood music for perusing private school prospectuses in one’s second home.

Edit: Oops - Frenchie already quoted that, above, but I'll leave it in place because it's so witty.

In other words encouraging the very opposite of the attention gripping experience I had on first hearing one of the Bach solo cello suites while at a friend's house.

[DracoM]

Precisely: timing of the 'new' [ahem] schedule is likely to drive me away. Esp if NIIGHT TRACKs gets duffed by non-stop Jazz. Crikey!

[AuntDaisy]

The latest episode of "Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch", "Sir Richard Eyre, theatre and film director and former BBC Governor on radio drama cuts and the BBC's cultural remit", includes frank discussion of drama extinction on R3...

https://shows.acast.com/rogerboltonsbeebwatch/episodes/sir-richard-eyre-theatre-and-film-director-and-former-bbc-go