If I were to take over from Roger Wright, I would ignore criticism.
If you took over from Roger Wright what would you do ?
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I would concentrate on Stuff Not Readily Available Elsewhere.
New commissions. Performances from venues and festivals from the UK, Europe and beyond.
Serious intellectually-demanding talks.
At least an hour of new comedy each week.
Announcers and presenters being there to announce and present, in as subfusc a way as feasible, and not to be Interesting Personalities.
No inane involvement with the Public - no tweets, phone-ins, competitions, listeners' choices.
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Originally posted by vinteuil View PostI would concentrate on Stuff Not Readily Available Elsewhere.
New commissions. Performances from venues and festivals from the UK, Europe and beyond.
Serious intellectually-demanding talks.
At least an hour of new comedy each week.
Announcers and presenters being there to announce and present, in as subfusc a way as feasible, and not to be Interesting Personalities.
No inane involvement with the Public - no tweets, phone-ins, competitions, listeners' choices.
Otherwise, vinty:
(And many thanks to everyone who's given me a "vote of confidence" on this Thread: I'm genuinely touched.)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by Honoured Guest View PostIf I were to take over from Roger Wright, I would ignore criticism.
Then I would look at the schedule and presentation. I would try to remove altogether the idea of 'presenter-led' programmes lasting 3 hours or so, and replace them with subject-led programmes (possibly early mornings excepted) that could be anything from, say 45 mins to 90 mins. The exceptions would be the 'live performances', whether concerts or drama where each would take the time they needed. If there was no way to prevent R3's Facebook and Twitter accounts being used by spammers and commercial promoters, I'd scrap them; and in any case listener contributions would form no part of broadcast programmes.
I'm not sure where jazz programmes would be placed, but the idea would be to put them somewhere convenient where they would be unlikely to be affected by unpredictable schedule changes. There is a difficulty when some audiences just tune in for, say, Late Junction, world music or jazz, and have no interest in anything else that R3 does. (You hear people saying e.g. Late Junction is the best thing/only thing worth listening to on Radio 3: the rest is rubbish. If that proved a widely held view, I would decide that it was on the wrong station and they should be listening to it somewhere else. I would try to return some classical music to the later evening from where it has been banished for years).
Presentation would be low key with people engaged because they have a solid knowledge of (classical or whatever) music and a good radio voice and manner. If they were presenting classical music they would have special training (not butting in too soon &c and attention to detail). With a different brief some of the bêtes noires might improve ....
There would be an increase in musical discussion and an overhaul of the speech programming. The brief for world music would be much wider to include more global traditional forms (classical and folk).
It might take 20 years to rebuild the audience for such programming. However, Tony Hall would be bringing related programmes to primetime television to increase the demand!It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Excellent proposals, french frank, which I would gladly second were they to be proposed as a manfesto first draft.
As regards music coverage (other areas not being my forte) I would only add something to do with breadth of terrain to be covered by the network, recommending the bringing in or commissioning of persons of known expertise/knowledge/appropriate presentation skills (as outlined by you) in such specialist areas (Baroque, Modern etc) as we only seem to have in World Music and Jazz at present.
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Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View PostRe-introduce a formal dress code for all staff at all times and weed out any announcer who has traces of a regional accent.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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