Skelly replaces Cowan

[zola]

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-daze-classic-fm-grabs-record-wiz-from-radio-3/

[antongould]

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 ..... !!!

[BBMmk2]

Who's next?

[subcontrabass]

Scary stuff indeed .... "

Read on two later news items for more scary stuff.

[Barbirollians]

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

[Nick Armstrong]

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...

[DracoM]

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

[Pulcinella]

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

[underthecountertenor]

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.

[underthecountertenor]

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.

[Pulcinella]

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

Perhaps they'll take Suzy Klein as well.

If only....

[Stanfordian]

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.

[underthecountertenor]

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.

[french frank]

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.

[underthecountertenor]

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.