R3 Presenters

[Nick Armstrong]

The announcer at the start of today's Choral Evensong was barely literate. Can't the BBC find someone who can manage a sentence or two without stumbling?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745k7k

It's not as bad as some of the gibbering mentioned in these posts from back in January...

... the 'Salford Weekends' seem to be run by a couple of escapees from hospital radio - Victoria Meakin and Tom McInney.

No, we really expect better of this channel

Not sure, alas, that we do after something I happened to catch on Thursday afternoon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vrs2h

- I think the worst dog's breakfast of an announcement I've ever heard.

Talk about hospital radio. Or had she been out at the pub during the opera and just rushed in to 'sight read' the announcement? My jaw dropped.

And then we segue'd into InTune with Sean Fafferty referring to Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music and saying

"the text for the Serenade comes from Twelfth Night"....

(One of the guests later was Greg Doran who at least corrected him).

Good start for the BBC Shakespeare Season

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In my view, continuity announcers are a species that need to be eliminated before they cause a recession in evolution. They are crass, embarrassing and utterly useless and unnecessary. The world would be a better place without them.

[Tony Halstead]

In my view, continuity announcers are a species that need to be eliminated before they cause a recession in evolution. They are crass, embarrassing and utterly useless and unnecessary. The world would be a better place without them.

Absolutely agreed!

[Padraig]

Absolutely agreed!

You mean, you agree with every word Tony?

[doversoul1]

In my view, continuity announcers are a species that need to be eliminated before they cause a recession in evolution. They are crass, embarrassing and utterly useless and unnecessary. The world would be a better place without them.

David Cornet, Catriona Young, Vaughan Savidge, Jill Anderson, Ian Skelly, John Shea?

[french frank]

David Cornet, Catriona Young, Vaughan Savidge, Jill Anderson, Ian Skelly, John Shea?

I don't think Alpie meant the individuals charged with carrying out the job so much as the job itself?

I can't say I have any strong feelings about it. It seems to me a quite unexceptionable role. I'm bemused - perhaps I haven't been listening lately - oh … no I haven't

[PJPJ]

It's not as bad as some of the gibbering mentioned in these posts from back in January...

Do you mean something like this?

Tuesday Afternoon on 3

Scroll forward 48 minutes, then listen for two minutes. A correction comes after the concerto.

[doversoul1]

BBC CO: Easter at King's

This is almost worth listening just for Donald Macleod’s presentation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745cz8

[oddoneout]

This is almost worth listening just for Donald Macleod’s presentation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745cz8

It reminded me of the happy days when the presenters acted as the 'eyes' of the radio audience, as D McC explained how the performers were placed in the building for the performance and why. It used to be a feature of Proms broadcasts where the various activities and noises off would be heard and then explained, and gaps(notably piano movement episodes) would be filled by relevant talk(descriptions of the scene, poetry readings etc). Nowadays it seems to be de rigeur to talk(or sometimes almost shout) over what's happening in the hall about anything and everything regardless of relevance or necessity, and/or play bits of 'earlier I spoke to....'

[Paulie55]

Announcers and Presenters

Petroc Trelawny is still dropping his voice at the end of every sentence, making him inaudible at the best of times. Radio 3 is the only BBC station where presenters' voices are inconsistent.
Rob Cowan nearly always seems to have cold or svere sinusitis and even he sometimes talks in an undertone. As for Elizabeth Alker, i'm sure she is a very nice person but her voice is colourless
and totally unsuited to radio. Why don't people take a leaf out of Radio 4's book? Every announcement is clear, crisp and most of all......audible!

[Lat-Literal]

I listened to this programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mdkf6

I prefer Katie Derham on television.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I prefer Katie Derham on television.

I wonder if she would like to head in the direction of being a TV "personality presenter" - in the way Alan Titchmarsh branched out from gardening to write, and to present other programmes. I'm hoping that she succeeds, and finds the schedule of R3 presenting too onerous. Soon.

[researcher]

At the outset I confess to being new to this forum - only just discovered it. As a consequence, I apologize if this has been covered!

I do wonder what the point of presenters as opposed to announcers might be. I'm all for talk on R3, from time to time, in fact, I remember hugely informative and thought-provoking lectures from such as Prof. George Porter on thermodynamics, and, I think, Prof. Lawrence Bragg - and, naturally, a host of others. R3 was an education.

One turns to the music programmes for music, not chit-chat - the BBC has plenty of other channels for that sort of thing. Simply the piece, the composer, and the performers is that which is required.

[Bryn]

At the outset I confess to being new to this forum - only just discovered it. As a consequence, I apologize if this has been covered!

I do wonder what the point of presenters as opposed to announcers might be. I'm all for talk on R3, from time to time, in fact, I remember hugely informative and thought-provoking lectures from such as Prof. George Porter on thermodynamics, and, I think, Prof. Lawrence Bragg - and, naturally, a host of others. R3 was an education.

One turns to the music programmes for music, not chit-chat - the BBC has plenty of other channels for that sort of thing. Simply the piece, the composer, and the performers is that which is required.

One role of the presenter, rather than annoncer, is that of fulfilling the Reithian concept to education. A good presenter will do their own research on the history and technical issues, etc. associated with the music they are to introduce. Some do better at this than others, but the best prepare the uninitiated for what they are about to receive.

[pastoralguy]

At the outset I confess to being new to this forum - only just discovered it. As a consequence, I apologize if this has been covered!

I do wonder what the point of presenters as opposed to announcers might be. I'm all for talk on R3, from time to time, in fact, I remember hugely informative and thought-provoking lectures from such as Prof. George Porter on thermodynamics, and, I think, Prof. Lawrence Bragg - and, naturally, a host of others. R3 was an education.

One turns to the music programmes for music, not chit-chat - the BBC has plenty of other channels for that sort of thing. Simply the piece, the composer, and the performers is that which is required.

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