W1A

[Nick Armstrong]

Back tonight! (10pm Mondays, BBC2)

Including (fourth from left) the bloke who does the Record Review webpage listings over the summer....

[Richard Tarleton]

Back tonight! (10pm Mondays, BBC2)

Including (fourth from left) the bloke who does the Record Review webpage listings over the summer....

and second left, the female who ran the focus group (at a Hampstead coffee morning) which resulted in the current changes to Essential Classics.

[DracoM]

Unmissable.

[Nick Armstrong]

and second left, the female who ran the focus group (at a Hampstead coffee morning) which resulted in the current changes to Essential Classics.

I thought that was the grinning loon second from the right...

[Richard Tarleton]

I thought that was the grinning loon second from the right...

Yes, except, not wishing to be too controversial......thinking of the mood board [flip charts, coloured felt tips, post-it notes] the putting your feet up, cup of coffee, sloooow moment, east European au pair probably keeping any pre-school children amused elsewhere, Ocado delivery not till later, the choice of presenter..... Seriously, neither I nor any of the recent contributors to this thread - who are very far from being a homogeneous audience segment, though all of us deserve to be taken seriously as R3 listeners, can possibly have been considered to be part of the target audience for the new look programme (cf CD Masters, which was very much aimed at me). I actually feel very , and would welcome RC and SW back albeit with muted enthusiasm. It's a bit like that circle of Purgatory where you're standing up to your neck in ordure, but at least you think it can't get any worse, until the speedboat (driven in this instance by SK) zooms past.

[Alain Maréchal]

(cf CD Masters, which was very much aimed at me).

Who, but RC during CD Masters, would recommend and play Otmar Suitner's recordings of Dvorak's symphonies, and thus open at least this listener's ears to that conductor's talents. In answer to my question possibly two other presenters.

Off-topic, sorry, I do not know the subject of the thread.

[LMcD]

Would someone PLEASE reassure me that 'W!A' is NOT based on actual goings-on at the BBC? It's always seemed horribly realistic to me....

[DracoM]

Erm...............unfortunately or fortunately....no!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Would someone PLEASE reassure me that 'W!A' is NOT based on actual goings-on at the BBC?

Alas not. After the last series I happened to meet someone who had until lately been employed at Broadcasting House, and she said that W1A seemed to her more like a documentary than a comedy series...

[LMcD]

Knowing that makes me glad I transferred our TV licence to the good lady wife so that it then became free!

[Bryn]

Knowing that makes me glad I transferred our TV licence to the good lady wife so that it then became free!

About to watch episode 2 on BBC Me.

[DracoM]

I thought the editing was far too jumpy, which meant that a lot of fun lines were a bit lost as you tried to remember who was who. The huge virtue of the Olympics series was that we watched faces delivering / hearing the undeliverable strategies for long enough to see they were serious, and not having a laugh, which of course made the comedy even better. The almost jump cut style this time did not give quite enough time to digest and react.

Love David Tennant's voice-overs.

[Barbirollians]

About to watch episode 2 on BBC Me.

You did well to make an episode to upload to BBC Me in so short a time.

[Bryn]

You did well to make an episode to upload to BBC Me in so short a time.

More a case of download to BBC 'Me', actually.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05dpbz2/w1a-series-3-episode-2

[Serial_Apologist]

Ace series: such a good fit in our never more incomprehensible, nonsensical world.