I've found myself tuning in regularly to Radio 3 between 10.00 p.m. and 12.30 a.m. during the week. Night Tracks offers a fascinating, loosely-themed mixture of the familiar and the unknown, and the informative introductions in Night Tracks add greatly to my enjoyment of the eclectic range of items played. These programmes more than compensate for my abandonment of Breakfast, the main purpose of which now seems to be the promotion of just about every other programme on Radio 3.
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I enjoy this programme also. I also find that mornings on Radio 3 are not quite my thing, so simply tune in to Through the Night via BBC Sounds at that time. Despite my not liking some things on Radio 3, I don't quite know why others moan - surely now that we have BBC Sounds we can play what we want whenever we want. I'm sure we could even find the voices of Patricia Hughes and Cormac Rigby floating somewhere in a sound cloud if we truly felt their loss. -
A popular and irksomely oft-repeated moan is that R3 is turning into Classic FM, which it thankfully and manifestly isn't. I listened to CFM once for about 10 minutes and have never repeated the experience, whereas I still happily listen to R3 for many hours weekly, mostly from mid-day onwards.Originally posted by Bella Kemp View Post
The phrase "dumbing down" is also employed with tiresome frequency to disparage Radio 3 in its current state, compared to the halcyon days 50 years ago. Like you, a lot of recent changes don't suit me, but this does not necessarily mean things are becoming stupid. (I still use "dumb" to mean "incapable of speaking").Comment
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The only real difference is that, whereas in the past one could rely on Radio 3 to provide a satisfying listening experience almost whenever one tuned in, one now has to be more selective. Fortunately there are plenty of alternatives out there, and Sounds is very useful !Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostComment
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