Pictures better on Radio

[ardcarp]

This programme on R4 today...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w9jg5

...featured The Harvesters by Bruegel the Elder. One could simultaneously scan around the picture online and zoom in on the bits being discussed. A great idea, and of course detail which usually goes unnoticed becomes significant.

[french frank]

A better idea than the webcasts of radio that aim to be inferior television, I think

(do you mean 'better on radio?).

This programme on R4 today...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w9jg5

...featured The Harvesters by Bruegel the Elder. One could simultaneously scan around the picture online and zoom in on the bits being discussed. A great idea, and of course detail which usually goes unnoticed becomes significant.

[doversoul1]

This programme on R4 today...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07w9jg5

...featured The Harvesters by Bruegel the Elder. One could simultaneously scan around the picture online and zoom in on the bits being discussed. A great idea, and of course detail which usually goes unnoticed becomes significant.

But what about the listeners who are, well, listeners who have none of those i-thingies at hand or not at all to view? Is the radio giving up on the power of words?

[french frank]

But what about the listeners who are, well, listeners who have none of those i-thingies at hand or not at all to view? Is the radio giving up on the power of words?

It's a very good point. Do producers eventually assume that everyone will be accessing the internet (or be able to) while they listen, and produce the programme based on that assumption?

[oddoneout]

It's a very good point. Do producers eventually assume that everyone will be accessing the internet (or be able to) while they listen, and produce the programme based on that assumption?

Well it's obvious that's what everyone already does otherwise how would you get those instant twitbook/email responses while the programme is still on air, so they don't need to 'assume'.

I can see merit in what has been described(sounds like an OU type thing) but I wonder if there is a danger of the old Grotneys Keg scenario, where choice will be removed by default, and those of us who choose to listen rather than inter-whatsit, or don't have the fandangles, will be cast into outer darkness(and/or silence).

[ardcarp]

But what about the listeners who are, well, listeners who have none of those i-thingies at hand or not at all to view? Is the radio giving up on the power of words?

I do hope not!

I would hate it if this became the norm. It was just an interesting experiment, the difference from Telly being that you (the listener) had the power to dwell on the bits of the picture you found interesting, both during and after the programme.

And believe me, I am the most incompetent user of anything 'cyber', and a confirmed twitterphobe.