Drama to be eradicated from Radio 3

[LMcD]

Well it could be argued that he is a proponent for free speech - for himself?

Changing one's opinion of prominent Americans seems to have become rather fashionable for some reason.

[oddoneout]

Client journalism is the scourge of modern life. Only a couple of years ago The Guardian, no less, described Elon Musk as a "fierce proponent of free speech." I think we all know where that one is heading.

Well it could be argued that he is a proponent for free speech - for himself?

[oddoneout]

'Kate Maltby writes about theatre, politics, and culture'. But not very well. To describe R3 as 'dedicated ' to classical music is ridiculous since the change to snippets, trailers and chat. .

Given her credentials I would have expected better. But Sam must be pleased that so many take his description of R3 at face value and repeat it?

http://www.katemaltby.com/about-me/

[Sir Velo]

Client journalism is the scourge of modern life. Only a couple of years ago The Guardian, no less, described Elon Musk as a "fierce proponent of free speech." I think we all know where that one is heading.

[smittims]

'Kate Maltby writes about theatre, politics, and culture'. But not very well. To describe R3 as 'dedicated ' to classical music is ridiculous since the change to snippets, trailers and chat. .

[french frank]

Someone else who doesn't know much about R3?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...in-playwrights

It's a personal Comment Is Free but my kneejerk reaction is to cancel my Guardian subscription.

(I don't do kneejerks, but really The Guardian is generally pretty philistine. Music? Ho ho ho ho ho ho. Not.)

[Belgrove]

Someone else who doesn't know much about R3?

Nor Radio 4. Saturday Review was a Radio 4 programme which was mothballed and then reappeared as one edition of Front Row. As for Screenshots, it’s vastly inferior to Francine Stock’s Film Programme which was axed. Screenshots comprises gossipy exchanges between two compères, one of whose knowledge of cinema is a bit slight. Doesn’t do much for Maltby’s credibility as a social commentator, a piece that could have been written by Phil Space.

[oddoneout]

Someone else who doesn't know much about R3?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/sorry-dame-judi-bbc-radios-job-is-to-find-listeners-not-train-playwrights

[Serial_Apologist]

I think he meant the one per cent to be his book '1975, 1984 minus nine' (Dobson publications), which I still turn to occasionally with pleasure . It includes, surprisingly for me, a lengthy chapter on Association Football, and some lovely inky drawings by his wife,the artist Milein Cosman.

Well there's no accounting for some people's tastes!

[smittims]

I think he meant the one per cent to be his book '1975, 1984 minus nine' (Dobson publications), which I still turn to occasionaly with pleasure . It includes, surprisingly for me, a lengthy chapter on Association Football, and some lovely inky drawings byhis wife,the artist Milein Cosman.

[french frank]

I’m coming round to the Hans Keller view that 99 per cent of words about music are a waste of time ..,

Well, he wrote a fair number of them himself.

[Bella Kemp]

It is encouraging that the numbers are steadily increasing on this poll. Gatsby in Harlem was incredibly good, but if you google Drama on 3 you will find so many similar treasures. In a world where the liberal foundations are under such huge pressure, it is so important that these anchors - however frail - are kept in place. Everything helps.

[Master Jacques]

I’m coming round to the Hans Keller view that 99 per cent of words about music are a waste of time ..,

Possibly. But we still have to put the reading work in, to find that elusive 1% - if on average we read for 2 hours per day, that's a far from negligible 7 hours plus per year which might change our perspective on music, and possibly life. Not so bad, after all.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Some people's 'evaluations' might be more searching and discerning than those of others, depending on their background I have neither the personal knowledge nor the interest to evaluate how 'Soft Machine' (who they?) or Pet Shops Boys or Florence and the Machine rate musically so as to have attracted the attention of better musical minds than mine!

Well that’s saved you decades reading pretentious “reviews” in the NME and Melody Maker . I’m coming round to the Hans Keller view that 99 per cent of words about music are a waste of time ..,

[LMcD]

I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly met one. I do know that “classical “musicologists and ethnos tend to sneer at each other .

I'm all in favour of that if it stops them from sneering at the likes of yours truly.