Worse news still?

[MickyD]

Yet another nail in the coffin of R3. The last straw for me will be when CD Review is axed - the way things are going these days, nothing would surprise me.

[Veronika]

Yet another nail in the coffin of R3. The last straw for me will be when CD Review is axed - the way things are going these days, nothing would surprise me.

Kindly don't put ideas into their heads. ;)

[VodkaDilc]

Yet another nail in the coffin of R3. The last straw for me will be when CD Review is axed - the way things are going these days, nothing would surprise me.

Me too. That's the one R3 programme I still listen to on a regular basis - otherwise it's just random listening in the car. Even there I normally prefer R5Live. I should be a completely typical R3 listener: 60-something, semi-retired (almost completely retired really) Music graduate - but they've lost me in recent years.

Never mind - Richard Bacon is very entertaining.

[antongould]

Very best wishes to Catherine and thanks for everything, very sorry to see you go.

I should probably own up that I am the, distinctly not proud, possessor of the book mentioned as the basis of the new series in the blurb - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know................given as a Christmas present by criminal daughter.

It is even to me, the novice of the board, cringe making ......each page has a potted biography of a composer in a little box - two examples without boxes....

Benjamin Britten
Born 1913
Died 1976
Nationality English
Must Listen: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra ; Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes; Ceremony Of Carols


Peter Maxwell Davies
Born 1934
Nationality English
Must Listen: Farewell To Stromness

I cannot help feeling that if R3 had announced a 150 week series to a similar strapline within say Essential Classics there might have been the odd grumble from the pavilion.....

[french frank]

I cannot help feeling that if R3 had announced a 150 week series to a similar strap line within say Essential Classics there might have been the odd grumble from the pavilion.....

Horses for courses. I think an intelligent series on Radio 3 for the type of listener they want to attract would be eminently appropriate. But they know that to attract that audience to the station in the first place, they have to lower the standards for a lot longer than an hour a week - which is just what they're trying to do. Classic FM has that audience already.

Just waiting to see whether they will put the prog on a Saturday afternoon at 4pm to rival Radio 3's new film music programme ...

Anyway I can't see CB having any truck with a stupid programme :-)

[EdgeleyRob]

Best wishes Catherine.
Radio 3 ?,you're better off outa there.

[antongould]

I've been meaning to catch up with Charlotte Green, now with CFM but somehow I never have.

I'm not even sure how to get it clearly on my various little radios.

Evening if you listen to Radio 5 at about 17.07 tomorrow you will hear her say, beautifully

Exeter Nil Hartlepool United 7.

[doversoul1]

It goes without saying that the programme continues (albeit halved in output) in good hands and good heart, that I shall miss them all very much, and that I shall go on listening to it, as I hope you will.

Catherine
This is most reassuring. Thank you. Although the programme will never be the same without you, I will definitely go on listening.

ff

Just waiting to see whether they will put the prog on a Saturday afternoon at 4pm to rival Radio 3's new film music programme ...

Anyway I can't see CB having any truck with a stupid programme :-)

From Catherine’s post:
My first programme goes out on Sunday October 27th at 9pm

Nor can I (re: stupid programme). Catherine has made a very fine silk purse out of a sow’s ear during the last (at least) couple of **** fests. Besides, if CFM had wanted Essential Classics type, they wouldn’t have approached Catherine in the first place.

[Old Grumpy]

There certainly remain reasons NOT to switch to CFM - adverts, jingles and the soupy swooning style of some of the presenters being primary among them. But it's becoming a closer run thing

Perhaps all is not lost Caliban.

Catherine's show is at 9pm on a Sunday - this is virtually an advert and jingle free zone. I'm sure no-one on these boards would suggest that Catherine is likely to have a soupy, swooning style

As with others on this thread I wish CB all the best - she will be sorely missed.

OG

[Nick Armstrong]

Perhaps all is not lost Caliban.

Catherine's show is at 9pm on a Sunday - this is virtually an advert and jingle free zone. I'm sure no-one on these boards would suggest that Catherine is likely to have a soupy, swooning style

Quite so!

[french frank]

So many replies - and I missed the most important one! Really appreciate Catherine contributing to the forum over the years since we began, and especially to this thread.

If she will be continuing to listen to the EMS, perhaps she'll perhaps continue to post here now and again. Even in her very humble capacity of 'mere listener' she'll still be very welcome :-)

May she sail into her pastures new with leaps and bounds!

[gurnemanz]

Perhaps all is not lost Caliban.

Catherine's show is at 9pm on a Sunday - this is virtually an advert and jingle free zone. I'm sure no-one on these boards would suggest that Catherine is likely to have a soupy, swooning style

As with others on this thread I wish CB all the best - she will be sorely missed.

OG

If it is ad-free it must be listener-free, otherwise there would be ads.

[Old Grumpy]

If it is ad-free it must be listener-free, otherwise there would be ads.

That's why I said virtually advert and jingle free

[pastoralguy]

I had a feeling that the closing down of the Radio3 message board and the discontinuation of texts FROM BaL advising us of the 'winners' of the feature was the thin edge of the wedge. The end is in sight...

[Sir Velo]

If it is ad-free it must be listener-free, otherwise there would be ads.

Not exactly! It just means that there are insufficient listeners for most firms to consider advertising to be worth it. Nonetheless, with Ms Bott on board, the ship will soon take off I would suggest (another mixed metaphor for CB).