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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26538

    Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
    there was far worse to follow on CD Review,
    I've moved our bracing little discussion of this to the right place:

    The Early Music Show, Early Music Late; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and HIPP on Radio 3 and elsewhere


    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • kernelbogey
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 5749

      Good Friday

      Well, what a pleasure to hear Martin Handley on a Friday - hoorah!

      On the other hand... Breakfast could manage only the first movement of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater...on Good Friday!

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      • Radio64
        Full Member
        • Jan 2014
        • 962

        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
        Well, what a pleasure to hear Martin Handley on a Friday - hoorah!
        Clemmy making up for working 'overtime' on Int Womens Day or summat ...
        "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Originally posted by Radio64 View Post
          Clemmy making up for working 'overtime' on Int Womens Day or summat ...
          Blimey - if she ever appears in Poldark, you'll need sedatives!
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Radio64
            Full Member
            • Jan 2014
            • 962

            Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
            Blimey - if she ever appears in Poldark, you'll need sedatives!
            Well there'll be no time for cushion fluffing I can tell you ..


            The Specialist Classical Chart podcast is back btw .. for those who care.
            "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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            • Black Swan

              I also was pleasantly surprised this morning to hear Martin's voice on Breakfast.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30302

                I expect the Roscoe family is jetting off for the Easter hols ...
                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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                • amcluesent
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 100

                  Please let it be true! Radio 3 cuts call-ins as new controller pledges focus on music

                  Radio 3 presenters are to return to focusing on music, the station’s new controller has pledged, as he announces he is cutting controversial breakfast show phone-ins and extra news.

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30302

                    Originally posted by amcluesent View Post
                    Please let it be true! Radio 3 cuts call-ins as new controller pledges focus on music

                    Radio 3 presenters are to return to focusing on music, the station’s new controller has pledged, as he announces he is cutting controversial breakfast show phone-ins and extra news.
                    No reason to doubt this

                    Why would any controller want to continue with someone else's bad idea?
                    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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                    • James Wonnacott
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 248

                      "It is to give the presenters more chances to present the music,”
                      What a good idea!
                      I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.

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                      • muzzer
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2013
                        • 1193

                        And no news on the quarter hour neither. May joy be unconfined.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30302

                          It's an interesting development. I don't think Roger had a 'vision' for Radio 3. He had a strategy (or two) for getting more listeners for the station. That seems to be what - as a strategy - Alan Davey is rejecting.

                          It doesn't mean he doesn't want more people listening, that it wouldn't be a good thing to attract new audiences: just that such aims shouldn't be the station's daily fuel. It's about the music, about 'people being properly informative, in the right way'. And getting the station's 'tone' right: not just 'smiling down the airwaves'.
                          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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                          • Frances_iom
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 2413

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            ... It's about the music, about 'people being properly informative, in the right way'.
                            Does this mean some presenters will be redeployed to other stations where their appearance/demeanour might be more relevant ?
                            I note also that more ROH broadcasts on Saturday evenings - maybe he could start to make better use of EBU links (eg at least 1 concert per week live from mainland Europe ?)

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3617

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              It's an interesting development. I don't think Roger had a 'vision' for Radio 3. He had a strategy (or two) for getting more listeners for the station. That seems to be what - as a strategy - Alan Davey is rejecting.

                              It doesn't mean he doesn't want more people listening, that it wouldn't be a good thing to attract new audiences: just that such aims shouldn't be the station's daily fuel. It's about the music, about 'people being properly informative, in the right way'. And getting the station's 'tone' right: not just 'smiling down the airwaves'.
                              Cautiously optimistic!

                              Only two news bulletins per hour
                              No phone - ins.

                              Things are looking up.


                              OG

                              DOI - regular Breakfast listener.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37699

                                Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
                                Does this mean some presenters will be redeployed to other stations where their appearance/demeanour might be more relevant ?
                                I guess it could mean that they will be permitted to revert to presenting the knowledgeable sides of themselves for which they were originally taken on, presumably

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