Radio 3 Unwind starts on the 4th of November

[french frank]

So, yes, French Frank, you can only hear Radio 3u on a train going to / from Hungary / Serbia.

Thank Heavens for that!

I've travelled from Hungary to Croatia and Hungary to Turkey but I was boycotting Serbia because of the Bosnian massacres. But I have been on first-rate trains tout confort, German, Austrian, Spanish, like the Danish one.

[AuntDaisy]

Sean Rafferty just called it BBC Rewind so clearly he hasn’t heard those terrible incessant trails.

Sure he didn't say BBC ruined?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Sean Rafferty just called it BBC Rewind so clearly he hasn’t heard those terrible incessant trails.

[AuntDaisy]

You can only hear Radio 3u on a train?

It looked too uncrammed / continental for the UK... Reminiscent of the Danish trains (which had beautifully designed bi-fold tables).

... and just look at the quality of the stitching / upholstery on that seat - we don't get that on the Maesteg train!
Not to mention the reading lamp or the time on his watch.



Update:
Found the original - it's described as "African American male commuter sleeping at the train stock photo", Location: Serbia.
Here's The Man in Seat 61 photo of the same first class seats in the double-deck SOKO train, between Budapest & Belgrade.

So, yes, French Frank, you can only hear Radio 3u on a train going to / from Hungary / Serbia.

[Serial_Apologist]

Radio 3 is the BBC's new therapy discovery. Haven't looked at the Guardian piece yet but, yes, why is classical music being categorised as music to calm and relax you? Is it the government's way of keeping down the NHS costs of prescription drugs?

I remember, in the 1990s, seeing a sign hanging above one of the aisles in a branch of Sainsbury's in Essex, which read "WELLBEING". "Look", I said to another shopper, "it's at last become something you can BUY!"

[french frank]

It made the front page of the BBC website...

"Unwind on BBC Sounds aims to help us escape the pressures of daily life with music that isn't heard anywhere else."

Really?
I wonder if he's on a UK train?

You can only hear Radio 3u on a train?

[Barbirollians]

I looked at the programme for Piano Focus this lunchtime - majority of pieces seemed to be crossover stuff with the odd bit of classical music thrown in.

I assume Tom Service no longer writes for the Guardian ...

[oddoneout]

You forgot to add "write on both sides of the paper"...

Digital/online only must raise age discimination issues.

Since R3 is still elitist As Dante so eloquently said "lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate"* - translated by Dorothy L Sayers as "Lay down all hope, you that go in by me".

(* Courtesy of Wikipedia)

Well that's something that can be solved by just ignoring it, year by year it becomes less of an issue... However there are others who are excluded by reason of rubbish or non-existent connections, or financial constraints, a situation which won't necessarily be resolved in the same way.

[oddoneout]

I duly tuned in on my laptop. It seems harmless enough and presumably achieves what it sets out to achieve - wallpaper? Even if I was wanting to become a regular listener - unlikely - I would probably not tune in since I can only play Sounds through a decent speaker by the slightly circuitous route of going through the TV which is in turn connected by an optical cable to my amp. It does not seem to figure among the multiplicity of internet stations that I can receive directly and uncomplicatedly via my tuner/streamer.

If they bring out a companion station featuring music to induce distress, existential angst and general malaise, I might be interested. Radio Put the Wind Up?

Doesn't seem the best way to unwind if it involves that much faff to hear it?
Isn't it something that you just ask your smart speaker for, like this

To listen on most smart speakers just say: "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live"

, or is it something different - I don't/can't use such things so don't know.

[Pulcinella]

Radio 3 is the BBC's new therapy discovery. Haven't looked at the Guardian piece yet but, yes, why is classical music being categorised as music to calm and relax you? Is it the government's way of keeping down the NHS costs of prescription drugs?

Whereas Trump has come out against fluoridation of water, here we seem to be heading for aural bromination, perhaps to quell our lusty spirits.

[french frank]

Who, or what, is this Wellbeing so often referred to everywhere? I was told it was the Archbishop of Canterbury!

Radio 3 is the BBC's new therapy discovery. Haven't looked at the Guardian piece yet but, yes, why is classical music being categorised as music to calm and relax you? Is it the government's way of keeping down the NHS costs of prescription drugs?

[Serial_Apologist]

Who, or what, is this Wellbeing so often referred to everywhere? I was told it was the Archbishop of Canterbury!

[Old Grumpy]

Not for the first time we ask: Who writes this nonsense (no doubt charging a very expensive fee)?

Sammy boy has his contacts...

[Pulcinella]

It made the front page of the BBC website...

"Unwind on BBC Sounds aims to help us escape the pressures of daily life with music that isn't heard anywhere else."
....

Or does it mean that, if they choose to let us unwind to the currently ubiquitous lark, then R3 itself, Classic FM, any other radio station, or indeed living room hi-fi, will somehow not be able to play it?

Not for the first time we ask: Who writes this nonsense (no doubt charging a very expensive fee)?

[kernelbogey]

Guardian writers offer instead a list of music which energises them.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/04/adrenaline-tired-ears-classical-writers-energise-radio-3-unwind