Sunday Morning

[french frank]

Yes, but I could hardly believe she played just the first movement of Holst's Brook Green Suite this morning. The whole work is only about 6 minutes long, for god's sake!

Sorry, but you either get whole works or single movements**... (so much for the BBC catering for all audiences <sigh>)

** as long as they're not longer than can easily be listened to by a gnat with the attention span of a gnat.

[LMcD]

Sorry, but you either get whole works or single movements**... (so much for the BBC catering for all audiences <sigh>)

** as long as they're not longer than can easily be listened to by a gnat with the attention span of a gnat.

She played the whole of the first movement?

[Pulcinella]

I had the misfortune to have R3 on in the car as I headed to do a supermarket shop earlier this morning (browsing from 0930: tills open at 1000); Gershwin's Walking the ****** dog.



Because there are so many short pieces now, I'm pretty sure that the talk to music ratio is higher than previously too, especially with the rather tenuous connections they try to use as trails for what's coming up later. As someone has posted elsewhere: with CDs at home, who needs R3? Trouble is, there's not much else while driving.

[cloughie]

I had the misfortune to have R3 on in the car as I headed to do a supermarket shop earlier this morning (browsing from 0930: tills open at 1000); Gershwin's Walking the ****** dog.



Because there are so many short pieces now, I'm pretty sure that the talk to music ratio is higher than previously too, especially with the rather tenuous connections they try to use as trails for what's coming up later. As someone has posted elsewhere: with CDs at home, who needs R3? Trouble is, there's not much else while driving.

The answer is to switch off, that way you also dodge the poo!

[Ein Heldenleben]

I had the misfortune to have R3 on in the car as I headed to do a supermarket shop earlier this morning (browsing from 0930: tills open at 1000); Gershwin's Walking the ****** dog.



Because there are so many short pieces now, I'm pretty sure that the talk to music ratio is higher than previously too, especially with the rather tenuous connections they try to use as trails for what's coming up later. As someone has posted elsewhere: with CDs at home, who needs R3? Trouble is, there's not much else while driving.

Yes me too and I posted about it on the Breakfast strand . It’s almost as if R3 producers have written into their annual objectives the need to play WTD a minimum once a week. Please can they stop . It’s not even a very good Broadway tune.

[french frank]

The BBC seems to measure its 'underserved' (I always read that as undeserved, and in fact I just wrote that) audiences by demographics, so that if 'we' the old Third/R3 audience, keen,curious, informed, selective, attentive, claimed we were 'underserved' they would be baffled. Au contraire, the older, educated, middle class listener gets most of BBC Radio's attention: R4, R4 Extra, R5 Live, local news, R3, R2. The fact that the other music stations focus on musical taste - R1, R1 spin-offs, 6 Music, the Asian network - is ignored.

Indeed, they have pointed out that R1's listener profile includes older listeners too, R1Xtra's is not exclusively Black, 6 Music has younger as well as older listeners tuning in &c all going to show that the content is targeted on taste rather social grade, age &c. Except in the case of R3, which, in many cases gets what 'we' (know who I mean, 'Arry?') would see as everyone else's rubbish. R3's airing of WTD has been one of my bugbears for decades.

Just checked: Since May last year it's been played 27 times.