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[EnemyoftheStoat]

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/12/radio-3-to-reduce-relay-fee/

I wonder how this squares with the amounts they pay celebrity "talent".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

KD pushed Jonathan Swain out because she was Katie Derham and a real coup for Radio 3

WHAT?




That's dreadful.

[french frank]

WHAT?




That's dreadful.

I don't mean, of course, that she herself physically elbowed him aside but the team with their photos was Penny, Louise and Jonathan - until KD was engaged. Then Jonners gradually appeared less as he moved to TTN.

[oddoneout]

How many, dare I say 'proper', presenters could R3 have for the price of one KD? Perhaps they could consider a 'Young Presenters' scheme alongside the Young Artists one...

Ed: [Sorry: edit has disappeared: suggestion from ooo was that a nameless one might take on the new 'Pied Piper' …ff

[ahinton]

How many, dare I say 'proper', presenters could R3 have for the price of one KD?

I have no idea because I don't know how much such presenters are paid and I don't know how much KD is paid.

[french frank]

How many, dare I say 'proper', presenters could R3 have for the price of one KD? Perhaps they could consider a 'Young Presenters' scheme alongside the Young Artists one...

Well there was young Tommy Pearson who used to do the Music Machine with young Verity Sharp. It was miles better than Making Tracks which had overgrown schoolkids from Blue Peter and CBBC whose main musical claim was not to know anything about classical music.

Getting back to KD: the point was that regardless of her talents - appropriate or not - she really wasn't needed. Radio 3 still has a lot of very knowledgeable presenters and good broadcasters who hardly get a look-in. That's what's so galling.

[ahinton]

Getting back to KD: the point was that regardless of her talents - appropriate or not - she really wasn't needed. Radio 3 still has a lot of very knowledgeable presenters and good broadcasters who hardly get a look-in. That's what's so galling.

Indeed - but rather than merely galling, it surely raises the question of why it is that she was engaged as a presenter, doesn't it? MIght it really be the case that she was taken on because those who engaged her genuinely believed that she was a "personality" and, as such, would be of benefit to R3? If so, that seems to me to be both underhand and absurd!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Today, on Breakfast, as we were bamboozled with the statutory trailer for Essential Classics, we were subjected to PT trying to be chummy in his conversation with Sarah Walker. They were talking about themselves of course - they are SO important, and PT ended the conversation by saying: "We'll keep stum about the Sean Rafferty story at the Christmas party".

Golly, aren't we fun. We're celebrities and all you listeners are thrilled about everything we do. You could twext us to beg us to tell us about dear Sean. We are so desperate to hear more.

[Stanfordian]

Today, on Breakfast, as we were bamboozled with the statutory trailer for Essential Classics, we were subjected to PT trying to be chummy in his conversation with Sarah Walker. They were talking about themselves of course - they are SO important, and PT ended the conversation by saying: "We'll keep stum about the Sean Rafferty story at the Christmas party".

Golly, aren't we fun. We're celebrities and all you listeners are thrilled about everything we do. You could twext us to beg us to tell us about dear Sean. We are so desperate to hear more.

Hiya Eine Alpensinfonie,

Typical nonsense from this rudderless station! I notice that a number of classical music based plays on R4 recently would have suited R3.

[teamsaint]

Today, on Breakfast, as we were bamboozled with the statutory trailer for Essential Classics, we were subjected to PT trying to be chummy in his conversation with Sarah Walker. They were talking about themselves of course - they are SO important, and PT ended the conversation by saying: "We'll keep stum about the Sean Rafferty story at the Christmas party".

Golly, aren't we fun. We're celebrities and all you listeners are thrilled about everything we do. You could twext us to beg us to tell us about dear Sean. We are so desperate to hear more.

Have you run out of CDs , Alpie?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Have you run out of CDs , Alpie?

As a matter of fact, yes. I was listening to a CD in the car. When it finished, I switched on Radio 3.

I nearly called an ambulance, being so alarmed to hear the presenter gasping for breath.

But a better solution might be singing lessons for all male R3 presenters. Then they might become accustomed to breathing whenever there were commas, semicolons, or full stops.

OR



But a better solution might be singing lessons for all male R3 presenters Then they (HUGE GASP) might become accustomed to breathing whenever there (ANOTHER GASP) were commas semicolons or full stops The (GASP). . .

[oddoneout]

But a better solution might be singing lessons for all male R3 presenters Then they (HUGE GASP) might become accustomed to breathing whenever there (ANOTHER GASP) were commas semicolons or full stops The (GASP). . .

Not just the male presenters. Those of the female persuasion are good at noisy inhalation, and gabbling on until they reach the lack-of-oxygen buffers - rather than the refuelling stops provided by the punctuation. Assuming that punctuation is still used on their scripts of course.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Not just the male presenters. Those of the female persuasion are good at noisy inhalation, and gabbling on until they reach the lack-of-oxygen buffers - rather than the refuelling stops provided by the punctuation. Assuming that punctuation is still used on their scripts of course.

I must admit; I hadn't noticed.

[Flosshilde]

Is this the right place to mention the presenter of tonight's concert from Edinburgh, who, during the interval, introduced a piano arrangement of 'the spinning song from Wagner's Tannhauser'? Which was, of course, from the Flying Dutchman. She repeated the mis-atribution after the piece was played.

[subcontrabass]

Is this the right place to mention the presenter of tonight's concert from Edinburgh, who, during the interval, introduced a piano arrangement of 'the spinning song from Wagner's Tannhauser'? Which was, of course, from the Flying Dutchman. She repeated the mis-atribution after the piece was played.

Possibly using the "information" on the programme webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06rwvdl