Late-evening pleasures on Radio 3

[Bella Kemp]

I don't understand these last two comments. The ship is far from sinking. Thanks to Radio 3 on BBC Sounds we can so easily satisfy our need for longer attention spans. Those who are more moved by music in shorter bites (take a look at 18th and 19th century programmes where you'd get a bit of this, a bit of that) are now catered for as well as those of us who prefer a deeper experience. Radio 3 is now better than ever, thanks to BBC Sounds. As I said previously it is now incredibly easy to access an entire opera or symphony or quartet or Shakespeare play and people do this all the time without having to rely on a radio producer's whim. Oh, and the sound quality is far far better - remember how we used to listen to it on tinny transistors! - gosh! the joy back then was so great I now wonder if I might have preferred it! To repeat my metaphor: our loved ones change inexorably but our love for them only deepens.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't understand these last two comments. The ship is far from sinking. Thanks to Radio 3 on BBC Sounds we can so easily satisfy our need for longer attention spans. Those who are more moved by music in shorter bites (take a look at 18th and 19th century programmes where you'd get a bit of this, a bit of that) are now catered for as well as those of us who prefer a deeper experience. Radio 3 is now better than ever, thanks to BBC Sounds. As I said previously it is now incredibly easy to access an entire opera or symphony or quartet or Shakespeare play and people do this all the time without having to rely on a radio producer's whim. Oh, and the sound quality is far far better - remember how we used to listen to it on tinny transistors! - gosh! the joy back then was so great I now wonder if I might have preferred it! To repeat my metaphor: our loved ones change inexorably but our love for them only deepens.

Not so easy for people who don't have the facilities for listening to Sounds etc we're so lucky to possess!

[Bella Kemp]

Ah that's a shame Serial. It's not so difficult or expensive to get, so maybe you might want to try. You would find so much joy. It's funny, but this thread made me remember the time when I was a teenager and raced home to listen to the premiere of The Ice Break on Radio 3! Such a thrill on a summer's evening! But I accept that no other seventeen year old ever in the history of this planet will ever again do such a thing - new technology has taken over and that's not so bad.

[oddoneout]

I don't understand these last two comments. The ship is far from sinking. Thanks to Radio 3 on BBC Sounds we can so easily satisfy our need for longer attention spans. Those who are more moved by music in shorter bites (take a look at 18th and 19th century programmes where you'd get a bit of this, a bit of that) are now catered for as well as those of us who prefer a deeper experience. Radio 3 is now better than ever, thanks to BBC Sounds. As I said previously it is now incredibly easy to access an entire opera or symphony or quartet or Shakespeare play and people do this all the time without having to rely on a radio producer's whim. Oh, and the sound quality is far far better - remember how we used to listen to it on tinny transistors! - gosh! the joy back then was so great I now wonder if I might have preferred it! To repeat my metaphor: our loved ones change inexorably but our love for them only deepens.

I don't know if I've understood this correctly - at face value it doesn't make sense to me, but perhaps you are meaning because it is possible to cherry pick content by listening to it at a time other than that of the broadcast. An easier version of the old tape recording method. Fair enough. However I don't see how that ability makes R3 better than ever, if the desire, or necessity, to cherry pick is the result of the current output being less than satisfactory, which seems to be the situation for a good many folk. The push for me to make the investment(financial and effort) in the means to access Sounds (which isn't just the kit, it also involves changes to my living space) is likely to be the ability to listen to TTN without becoming nocturnal, because there is nothing in the daytime schedule to listen to on the radio. I could also pick up the occasional bits of Afternoon whatever it's called today if I can be bothered to do a fair bit of editing .That isn't in my book the marker of a R3 better than ever.