I listened to Saturday Review for the first time in ages the other week and it was a programme that appeared to have disappeared up its own backside some pretentious trenchant opinions with nil analysis - no loss .
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Won't that go anyway, post Brexit?Originally posted by french frank View Post
We won't be using BBC funding to have European concerts transmitted any more, surely?
(Apologies if too political a statement; moderate/delete if considered inappropriate.)Comment
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You're probably right, though I'm not sure I'd want to keep The Listening Service, which reminds me of a one-sided party political broadcast (with added muzak).Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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I haven't yet got round to listening to Saturday Review so I'm not sure what manner of beast is being grieved over in some quarters. What I do feel - in principle - is that no programme should be dropped from one station and picked up intact by another. In the first place, it is a programme tailored for one audience which is then being imposed on another (notwithstanding an inevitable overlap).
An 'equivalent' would need to be darned good to please both ferney and DracoM, and I confess to having had a sudden nightmare of a jolly 'Start the Week' type 'round table' where the participants enjoy themselves more than the listeners.
Speech, criticism, analysis, range of arts topics, yes. But I'm not sure how rigorous 'everyone has their twopenno'th' would be for my particular taste. But it couldn't be clearer that tastes and opinions differ.
As far as what gets ditched, we've junked:
the repeat lunchtime concert
The Listening Service
Private Passions
the evening concert
Words and Music
That could give quite a long edition of Critics' Forum - about 6 hours.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Huzza!Comment
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And lose Andrew McGregor?!Originally posted by zola View Post
Not f****ng likely!!
(And that's the closest I come to intimating swearing online, but, in this case, justified!Comment
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I wasn't advocating it !! Just positing it as a natural extension of the logic applied to axing Saturday Review. The cost reasons for which ( fee of £375 per guest critic ) seem even more disengenuous in the light of the recent BBC salary revelations. The reprieve is no less welcome.Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostAnd lose Andrew McGregor?!
Not f****ng likely!!
(And that's the closest I come to intimating swearing online, but, in this case, justified!Comment
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Don't joke about such matters! Someone at the Beeb might take you seriously. After all, axing 'Record Review' might pay for another 10 minutes of Chris Evans...!Originally posted by zola View PostComment
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About time the Beeb took the ARTS seriously.
Delighted Sat Rev has been reprieved. Tom Sutcliffe is a self-deprecating treasure as Chairman - Melvyn Bragg are you listening.....?Comment
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