Radio 3 Unwind starts on the 4th of November

[gradus]

Shame, you missed Chailly's tremendous recording of the Eroica although only the first movt.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I turned on R3 for a change this morning, and hit it towards the end of Mendelssohn's MND overture. Next thing up, a bloody trailer for guest what. Hideous, and off R3 goes. Either I was just unlucky, or they trail the thing after every, or almost every item.

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps they're concentrating on Great Western Music.

[LMcD]

Looking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind - as well as Radio 3 . Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.

That is correct, even if it isn't right.

[LMcD]

You can only hear Radio 3u on a train?

Perhaps they're concentrating on Great Western Music.

[LMcD]

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

You got that in justin time, I would say.

[french frank]

I blame Max Richter...

[oddoneout]

Looking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind - as well as Radio 3 . Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.

I blame Max Richter...

[DracoM]

Alas, I fear both above are right. ...................so CFM wins?
Am increasingly using European radio stns post 8 p.m.
Poor are those who cannot access an escape online from the eviscerated and sliding into ignominy R3!

[Serial_Apologist]

I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.

Not if classical music is actually supposed to be listened to - we already have ample evidence demonstrating that the Management don't think so any more.

[french frank]

Looking at the schedule it appears that Night Tracks is on Radio Unwind - as well as Radio 3 . Next step replace it on R3 with something sensible and let the Night Trackers switch over to Unwind which has now found its natural home. I can't believe that the BBC - and Radio 3 - are marketing classical music as 'music to go to sleep to'. Is there a more effective way to devalue it? It ranks with playing it in shopping centres to disperse the gangs of late night hooligans.

[french frank]

I'm just relieved it hasn't replaced ThroughThe Night, which might easily have happened, so maybe For3 did have some influence there. I sometimes think Sam eyes TTN as a property developer eyes a few green fields and a patch of woodland between two housing estates in Oxfordshire.

It was his predecessor that introduced the easy listening late night programmes which encroached on TTN. I think they've more or less gone. I have no objection to the late night jazz (I mean no theoretical objection - I don't listen) because that has at various times been a regular jazz slot (eg Jazz Notes with Digby Fairweather). What Mr Jackson, or CR3 as we say in BBC parlance, has in mind I've no idea. But perhaps giving him some ideas would be no bad thing?

[smittims]

I'm just relieved it hasn't replaced ThroughThe Night, which might easily have happened, so maybe For3 did have some influence there. I sometimes think Sam eyes TTN as a property developer eyes a few green fields and a patch of woodland between two housing estates in Oxfordshire.

[Serial_Apologist]

It occurred to me that the only success FoR3 had in persuading the BBC they should think again was when they reduced the audio quality of R3 in order to assign the necessary bandwidth to a looped trail as a placemarker for Radio 5 Sports Extra when it was off air. The BBC boffins assured the managers that the reduction in bandwidth would not be detectable by the human ear. I printed off pages of forum posts complaining about it in order to persuade the Director of Radio that on the contrary the decrease in audio quality was very noticeable and unacceptable. They did reverse their decision and I received a letter from the Director of Radio notifying me.

So, I don't think we would have much joy in persuading them that RadioUnwind should be abolished, but we might persuade them that it should be completely separate from Radio 3, that what it offers is for a different audience. I would therefore suggest a name change from Radio 3 Unwind to BBC Radio Unwind, or even Classical Unwind, and explain to them that classical music is not quintessentially 'calming' and that most classical music lasts for longer than 4 or 5 minutes. I'm collating the bests forum posts for a similar, very polite, missive, copied to the DG, of course.

Surely this is a wind up??!!!

[french frank]

It occurred to me that the only success FoR3 had in persuading the BBC they should think again was when they reduced the audio quality of R3 in order to assign the necessary bandwidth to a looped trail as a placemarker for Radio 5 Sports Extra when it was off air. The BBC boffins assured the managers that the reduction in bandwidth would not be detectable by the human ear. I printed off pages of forum posts complaining about it in order to persuade the Director of Radio that on the contrary the decrease in audio quality was very noticeable and unacceptable. They did reverse their decision and I received a letter from the Director of Radio notifying me.

So, I don't think we would have much joy in persuading them that RadioUnwind should be abolished, but we might persuade them that it should be completely separate from Radio 3, that what it offers is for a different audience. I would therefore suggest a name change from Radio 3 Unwind to BBC Radio Unwind, or even Classical Unwind, and explain to them that classical music is not quintessentially 'calming' and that most classical music lasts for longer than 4 or 5 minutes. I'm collating the bests forum posts for a similar, very polite, missive, copied to the DG, of course.