BBC 100!

[Serial_Apologist]

Wasn’t it Music, Movement and Mime ?

https://www.broadcastforschools.co.u...ement_and_Mime

No, we're talking end of the 1940s.

[smittims]

Jarvis Cocker presented an interesting radio 4 programme about 'Singing Together' , which I remember well, hosted by William Appleby, an energetic man whom I took to be a Yorkshire teacher. It was aimed at primary schools which may not have had a music teacher or even a piano. The repertiore was well-chosen, ranging from folk song arrangements to Schubert.

Cocker seemed to suggest that it was a populist alternative to 'Time and Tune', a more academic, Imogen Holst type of programme, which I also enjoyed, but I never felt the two programmes were opposed, just complementary.

I should also mention 'Nature Study' in which a boy called Tony used to meet and converse about Nature with an older man called 'Mr. Collins', the purpose, of course, being to introduce primary school listeners to aspects of the natural world. Such a programme would probably not be contemplated in these politically-correct days.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I gave up my licence a year ago, something I didn’t ever think I would do.

I miss Match of the Day ,( and make do with clips from Sky on youtube and peer to peer streams for live games ) still listen to R3 occasionally, and that’s it really.

I don’t expect to buy a licence for quite a while.

If you listen to Radio Three shouldn’t you consider buying a TV Licence as Radio Three is almost entirely funded from TV licence fee income? . Unlike a lot of television there are very few sources of external income e.g. foreign sales , co production money etc.The same is true of virtually all of BBC radio.

[smittims]

I've little interest in TV but I live with someone who likes to watch quite a bit, so I regard my TV licence as helping to pay for Radio 3 and the small amount of radio 4 I listen to. When one considers the probable number of people who effectively watch live TV on the internet without buying a licence the loss to the BBC is probably greater than the fare evasion on Virgin Trains in the days when they didn't bother to check tickets.

[cloughie]

Wasn’t it Music, Movement and Mime ?

https://www.broadcastforschools.co.u...ement_and_Mime

May have been in the 60s but it was ‘Music and Movement’ when I was at primary shool in the mid 50s!

[teamsaint]

If you listen to Radio Three shouldn’t you consider buying a TV Licence as Radio Three is almost entirely funded from TV licence fee income? . Unlike a lot of television there are very few sources of external income e.g. foreign sales , co production money etc.The same is true of virtually all of BBC radio.

Not really , no.
It costs peanuts to run R3, and I have spent a lot of money on the licence for many years for very modest return, as I hardly watched any TV.
If they make its a subscription service ( which when they go fully digital they could do) I may or may not pay.
And the news that they carry isn’t something I am prepared to fund at present.

[smittims]

Doesn't the cost of Radio3 include all the BBC orchestras, and the Proms? I imagine that's quite an expense which a philistine government would be looking to scrap if they could show that it isn't supported.

I agree that the TV licence fee is poor value for money as regards TV, considering the huge amounts of money the BBC waste on rubbish and over-paid presenters, but for a Radio 3 listener to disregard the cost of Radio 3 seems dangerous to me.

[smittims]

I've bumped this thread to alert members to next Sunday 30 Oct at 11 am (Greenwich mean time) : Radio 3 Soundscape of a century'.

It's a seven-hour programme of recordings of speech and music tracing the history of the BBC. Since it's on Radio 3 we've been promised 'classical music' (snippets again?) but so far I can't find out what's on when. If last night's TV programme is anything to go by, it could be frustrating (or maybe it's just that they don't broadcast what I want!): a few minutes on the first forty years of the BBC and then half an hour revelling in how they dealt with Kennedy's assassination.

[kernelbogey]

I have fond memories of a (part of a?) Schools programme from the mid-1950s when an Intrepid Reporter returned to the Triassic and reported on what he could see. He invariably ended up being chased by a pterodactyl or other creature, and was tactfully faded out...! It was such vivid radio that it has stayed with me: we had it on the school's radio piped into our classroom.

[LHC]

Not really , no.
It costs peanuts to run R3, and I have spent a lot of money on the licence for many years for very modest return, as I hardly watched any TV.
If they make its a subscription service ( which when they go fully digital they could do) I may or may not pay.
And the news that they carry isn’t something I am prepared to fund at present.

Radio 3 costs £34m a year, which is a bit more than ‘peanuts’. It is also consistently the most expensive BBC radio channel per listener and as others have pointed out, it also supports the BBC orchestras. Much as I find parts of its output frustrating, I am more than happy to support its continued existence through the licence fee.

[pastoralguy]

Radio 3 costs £34m a year, which is a bit more than ‘peanuts’. It is also consistently the most expensive BBC radio channel per listener and as others have pointed out, it also supports the BBC orchestras. Much as I find parts of its output frustrating, I am more than happy to support its continued existence through the licence fee.

[teamsaint]

Radio 3 costs £34m a year, which is a bit more than ‘peanuts’. It is also consistently the most expensive BBC radio channel per listener and as others have pointed out, it also supports the BBC orchestras. Much as I find parts of its output frustrating, I am more than happy to support its continued existence through the licence fee.

The BBC has revenues of £5 Bn a year.
£34m is a drop in the ocean.

I’m happy to support the R3 and the orchestras, and have done for many years, not least by attending concerts, which of course I still do.
I’m not happy to support other aspects of the BBC right now. Shame, but there it is.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Radio 3 costs £34m a year, which is a bit more than ‘peanuts’. It is also consistently the most expensive BBC radio channel per listener and as others have pointed out, it also supports the BBC orchestras. Much as I find parts of its output frustrating, I am more than happy to support its continued existence through the licence fee.

To put it in context that’s just 34 hours of middling cost TV drama and about 15 hours of the most expensive wildlife documentary . Though these will attract huge amounts of co production money . Unfortunately classical music radio doesn’t attract much in the way of outside investment other than the hidden subsidy in free programmes exchanged through the EBU - and there are lot of those in the schedules e.g. Through The Night and Afternnon Concert. I estimate most BBC outlets have 30 per cent less to spend than they had 20 years ago in real terms - though the money goes further because of technological innovation. The gap is made up with money from outside though that throws up another can of worms that I won’t bore you with,

[ardcarp]

Don't miss this zany, vulgar (and self critical) celebration of the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dk9y

Haven't laughed so much in years.

[Serial_Apologist]

Don't miss this zany, vulgar (and self critical) celebration of the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dk9y

Haven't laughed so much in years.

Wonderful wasn't it just? Enfield back on form right now once more - he stole the show last week as well. Thanks for the link ardy - I missed the first half owing to an exceptionally long phone conversation with the widow of my late and favourite cousin.