Sean: a Celebration

[Quarky]

This?

https://keeplongwave.co.uk/

A very interesting account of the history of the Droitwich Transmitter - at least I found it as such.:

https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/portrait-of-a-long-wave-station-in-its-twilight-years/

About 10 minutes in to the video, there is an explanation of the issue with the giant valve amplifiers.

[hmvman]

I've never been a regular listener to 'In Tune' but on the odd occasions when I did hear it Sean R struck me as personable, if rather verbose, and I appreciate, from others' comments here that he was knowledgeable about music and appears to have been shabbily treated by BBC management. I caught up with the comments on the Slipped Disc piece and apart from the unpleasantness (regretfully to be expected on online comments sections these days) there was a noticeable split between those who thought SR a 'national treasure' and those who couldn't stand him. This seems to me to underline the problem of making R3 programmes presenter-led; the discussions revolve around the various merits or otherwise of the presenters rather than the musical content. This, of course, is something that french frank has been saying for some time!

[french frank]

This seems to me to underline the problem of making R3 programmes presenter-led; the discussions revolve around the various merits or otherwise of the presenters rather than the musical content. This, of course, is something that french frank has been saying for some time!

Well said! And of course the 'musical content' of these presenter-led magazines, being of lighter, secondary importance, is not as interesting as when the programmes were 'music-led' - even when they had regular presenters. I hadn't listened to In Tune for years, but Sean differed from many other R3 presenters in being a truly professional broadcaster.