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  • zola
    Full Member
    • May 2011
    • 656

    Skelly replaces Cowan

    According to Lebrecht's blog, Rob Cowan has quit and is joining Classic FM. Will be replaced on essential Classics by Ian Skelly.

  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8780

    #2
    Originally posted by zola View Post
    According to Lebrecht's blog, Rob Cowan has quit and is joining Classic FM. Will be replaced on essential Classics by Ian Skelly.

    http://slippedisc.com/2017/12/radio-...-from-radio-3/
    Scary stuff indeed .... " ...part of a general talent and producer exodus from Radio 3"

    Skellers is Prince Charles's speechwriter it would seem ..... !!!

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    • BBMmk2
      Late Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 20908

      #3
      Who's next?
      Don’t cry for me
      I go where music was born

      J S Bach 1685-1750

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      • subcontrabass
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 2780

        #4
        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Scary stuff indeed .... "
        Read on two later news items for more scary stuff.

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        • Barbirollians
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 11669

          #5
          Isn't that where he came from in the first place ? Perhaps he can take Petroc back with him .

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26523

            #6
            A good move for Rob given his lamentable miscasting in recent years - but a real loss of his best talents (which R3 seems to have been determined to ignore)

            Any enhanced role for IS has to be the equivalent of a few drops of precious water in the current weekday morning desert...
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • DracoM
              Host
              • Mar 2007
              • 12960

              #7
              Rather PT went even than R.Cowan.
              Skelly is R3's real care-home curator.

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              • Pulcinella
                Host
                • Feb 2014
                • 10892

                #8
                How long before Schwanda the bagpiper tops the CFM chart, I wonder?

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                • underthecountertenor
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2011
                  • 1584

                  #9
                  Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                  Rather PT went even than R.Cowan.
                  I'm of the opposite view. In my view PT has settled very well as a R3 presenter after a perhaps unsurprisingly iffy start post-Classic FM, whereas RC seems ever more awkward and inauthentic every time I hear him. I find Breakfast to be eminently listenable-to on his watch, and the musical fare much more interesting. I'd be happy to see Clemmie go, however: yesterday morning her very first utterances were replete with blunders and mispronunciations, and I had to switch off.

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                  • underthecountertenor
                    Full Member
                    • Apr 2011
                    • 1584

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                    How long before Schwanda the bagpiper tops the CFM chart, I wonder?

                    With 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah' a close second.

                    Perhaps they'll take Suzy Klein as well.

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                    • Pulcinella
                      Host
                      • Feb 2014
                      • 10892

                      #11
                      Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                      With 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah' a close second.

                      Perhaps they'll take Suzy Klein as well.
                      If only....

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                      • Stanfordian
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 9309

                        #12
                        Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                        With 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah' a close second.

                        Perhaps they'll take Suzy Klein as well.
                        Hiya underthecountertenor,

                        In music world where Anton du Beke and Nick Knowles have both just released albums anything is possible. I kid you not!

                        But take Suzie Klein and not KD, surely not.

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                        • underthecountertenor
                          Full Member
                          • Apr 2011
                          • 1584

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                          Hiya underthecountertenor,

                          In music world where Anton du Beke and Nick Knowles have both released albums anything is possible. I kid you not!

                          Suzie Klein rather than KD surely not.


                          I wonder whether Rob will find himself contractually obliged to wax lyrical about albums by Classic FM luminaries Alexander Armstrong and Katherine Jenkins.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30250

                            #14
                            Classic FM's version. This has clearly been brewing for a while. Who knows? Perhaps a beneficial shake-up for the turgid Ess. Cla.? A big move for Skellers.
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • underthecountertenor
                              Full Member
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 1584

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post

                              But take Suzie Klein and not KD, surely not.
                              Oh, please let them both be taken!

                              A welcome side-effect of any exodus may be that Radio 3 is forced to rehabilitate the likes of James Jolly and Jonathan Swain, and perhaps promote the excellent John Shea from his nocturnal ghetto.

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