The "Twenty Minutes" slot

[mercia]

this is probably old hat, but I've just noticed that several of the "20 minutes" programmes seem to be available beyond the 7-day listen-again deadline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006ts4r/episodes/player

which I thought was worth browsing

......and all those Anglo-Saxon Portraits seem to be conveniently gathered together

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0144xrk

[french frank]

Are you suggesting Radio 3 could resurrect them as interval talks? Or that those who object to the musical intervals could listen to them instead? Or as just a point of interest? I presume there are no rights issues (or not the same ones) if they are available semi permanently(?)

[mercia]

I presume there are no rights issues (or not the same ones) if they are available semi permanently(?)

I wouldn't know. Do you think there might be [rights issues] ?
Listening to them instead of the interval music - brilliant idea.

[french frank]

Do you think there might be [rights issues] ?

No, I know nothing. I just thought the 7-day rule was to do with rights agreements of some sort.

[Nick Armstrong]

Fascinating and entertaining programme this evening in the First Night interval, about Chorus Masters

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036v857 (Ignore the stupid photo )

... including a couple more good "offstage performers" anecdotes to add to some of those on another thread...




EDIT - just realised they've cut that badly - you get the end of the Rachmaninov and the Luto Variations before the interval prog starts around the 27 minute point in that link...