Words and Music

[ardcarp]

Does Words and Music count as a playlist programme? The fantastic thing about it is that the music falls on 'the innicent ear' and it is a delight to work out the often oblique connections between the...er...words and music. It necessarily demands ones full attention.....indeed one needs a quasi- meditative mind-set to get the most out of it. How is one supposed to do this at TEA-TIME?

I am aware that much has been said about the new R3 schedule, but surely W & M was conceived as a bed-time-ish sort of programme; utterly crass therefore to stick it on at half-past six.

['grr' doesn't seem to be working on my PC this morning, but if it did there'd be six of them at least.]

[Nick Armstrong]

Does Words and Music count as a playlist programme? The fantastic thing about it is that the music falls on 'the innicent ear' and it is a delight to work out the often oblique connections between the...er...words and music. It necessarily demands ones full attention.....indeed one needs a quasi- meditative mind-set to get the most out of it. How is one supposed to do this at TEA-TIME?

I am aware that much has been said about the new R3 schedule, but surely W & M was conceived as a bed-time-ish sort of programme; utterly crass therefore to stick it on at half-past six.

['grr' doesn't seem to be working on my PC this morning, but if it did there'd be six of them at least.]

Allow me....



(I agree, incidentally)

[ardcarp]

Thanks!

[DracoM]

At tea time.............but about breakfast...........

Erm...........?

[ardcarp]

I was trying to explain the British class system (which I hate) to a German couple the other day. I began by saying that the upper classes have lunch at dinnertime and supper at teatime whereas the lower classes have dinner at lunchtime, tea at suppertime and supper at bedtime....but they looked a bit confused, so I gave up.

[Norfolk Born]

Why does 'Words and Music' not appear in the A-Z of Programmes?

[french frank]

Why does 'Words and Music' not appear in the A-Z of Programmes?

It does. It's got a fry-up alongside it, I think because the theme is ... Breakfast (complete with authentic phone-in?).

[mercia]

the upper classes have lunch at dinnertime and supper at teatime whereas the lower classes have dinner at lunchtime, tea at suppertime and supper at bedtime

so the lower classes have an extra meal per day. perhaps this explains the phenomenon of obesity.
if attention and alertness are required for Words and Music, I think I am more alert at tea-time than bedtime.

[ardcarp]

I think I am more alert at tea-time than bedtime.

Maybe....but have you got stampedes of children, grandchildren, wives, etc in full cry? I have, and find bedtime to be much preferred for anything faintly cerebral.

[mercia]

Maybe....but have you got stampedes of children, grandchildren, wives, etc in full cry?

point taken. no I haven't. blimey, how many wives have you got?

[gurnemanz]

I have already commented on this elsewhere. I really miss Words and Music in its late slot. It is one of R3's best productions and we got used to it being on while driving home after a weekend away. I don't dislike world music but it doesn't fill the bill for me at that time. I rarely listen to R3 at meal time.

[ardcarp]

blimey, how many wives have you got?

They're not necessarily all mine.

[ardcarp]

Words and Music

I caught this programme today (theme....alcohol) for the first time since the ridiculous schedule change. How often does one have peace and quiet...and you need it to appreciate this wonderful weekly offering....at Sunday tea-time? Today's selection included the laugh-out-loud Malcolm Arnold Sea Shanty Wind Quintet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01806nq

[Nick Armstrong]

One of the main benefits of new technology is not having to be enslaved by 'official schedules', surely? I very rarely listen to something I really want to hear at the time it is broadcast: podcasts, recording from DAB and iPlayer make things much more flexible...

One evening last week, I caught up with the interesting Four Temperaments edition of W&M from last weekend, and I've listened twice to the splendid edition called 'Nocturne' from a few weeks past.

It is a great programme, well worth seeking out despite the rescheduling...

[Anna]

Words and Music 21st December

I'm just catching this. It's so good. A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of power, with readings by Sheila Hancock and Tom Hollander.

With poems from Percy Shelley, Ted Hughes, Rudyard Kipling and Margaret Atwood, as well as music by Prokofiev, Ligeti and Handel. More like this please!

And this was wonderful: "Kit Wright’s Ode to Didcot Power Station. Wright says that if he was going to have an ode, “why not go the whole hog and pull out all the stops with ‘thee’s and ‘thou’s and fairly antiquated language.”

Please note this programme contains strong language! http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n6tl5