Excuse me but do you mean….?

[Mal]

Check jayne lee wilson’s...

Jayne Lee Wilson please

[Bryn]

Jayne Lee Wilson please

No one of that moniker here.

[doversoul1]

I think it a bit rich that the writer of the opening message can’t get the name of the presenter he’s criticising correct. It’s
“Kate Molleson” not “Morrison”.
Check jayne lee wilson’s post - opening quotation - for further comment and advice.

Thank you for pointing this out. Duly corrected.

[LMcD]

A BBC reporter yesterday informed us that one of the Top 5 Greatest Radio Programmes in the recent Radio Times poll was 'Around The Horne', a programme which might perhaps also appeal to fans of 'Around Britain Quiz'.

[french frank]

Oh, come on. I'm an atheist and even I know Moses lived way before Mary gave birth to Jesus, let alone before he gave rise to a revised version of Judaism.

Yes, Bryn - that was the point of the emoticon after 'easy mistake to make' The point being, I suppose, that not only do you need to know these things, you need to process them and come to a reasonable conclusion. As Frances_i-o-m said: read off a crib sheet. (And, atheism, I would have thought, need have nothing to do with it: people can learn about legends, folklore and fairy stories without believing in them)

[cloughie]

I spy Wikipedia which says: "Amaltea, Pharaoh's wife, has secretly converted". Easy mistake to make

Was it ‘league’ or ‘union’?

[cloughie]

A BBC reporter yesterday informed us that one of the Top 5 Greatest Radio Programmes in the recent Radio Times poll was 'Around The Horne', a programme which might perhaps also appeal to fans of 'Around Britain Quiz'.

Get him in the pub - he’ll get around in!

[Bryn]

Get him in the pub - he’ll get around in!

I blame Grammarly. It hates "round" being used in place of "around".

[ahinton]

I blame Grammarly. It hates "round" being used in place of "around".

Conversely, I wonder what Sorabji - who was out of UK for an extended period when his first volume of essays was very poorly proof-read and published in his absence - would have made of it had those proof-reading shortcomings led to its being entitled A Round Music instead of Around Music?...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thank you for pointing this out. Duly corrected.

A dignified and polite response, dovers, thank you.

Yes, we should be careful to ensure that details of our citations are correct and accurate, but to equate gaffs on the Forum (whose Hosts and contributors are unpaid enthusiasts) with those from a national public service broadcaster (with professional staff paid for from public funding) seems a little over-delicate to me.

And I don't think that using vocabulary such as "hypocrite" about other Forumistas is either helpful or in the best spirit of the Forum. Some temptations need to be more vigorously resisted.

[ahinton]

A dignified and polite response, dovers, thank you.

Yes, we should be careful to ensure that details of our citations are correct and accurate, but to equate gaffs on the Forum (whose Hosts and contributors are unpaid enthusiasts) with those from a national public service broadcaster (with professional staff paid for from public funding) seems a little over-delicate to me.

And I don't think that using vocabulary such as "hypocrite" about other Forumistas is either helpful or in the best spirit of the Forum. Some temptations need to be more vigorously resisted.

Agreed.

Another source of such gaffes is Radio Times, in each edition of which at least one error in the R3 listings can usually be found.

[Stanfordian]

A dignified and polite response, dovers, thank you.

Yes, we should be careful to ensure that details of our citations are correct and accurate, but to equate gaffs on the Forum (whose Hosts and contributors are unpaid enthusiasts) with those from a national public service broadcaster (with professional staff paid for from public funding) seems a little over-delicate to me.

And I don't think that using vocabulary such as "hypocrite" about other Forumistas is either helpful or in the best spirit of the Forum. Some temptations need to be more vigorously resisted.

A voice of reason. Thank you.

[LMcD]

Agreed.

Another source of such gaffes is Radio Times, in each edition of which at least one error in the R3 listings can usually be found.

Nice to know that things haven't improved since I cancelled my subscription!

[LMcD]

Get him in the pub - he’ll get around in!

After he's been Aaround The World With Michael Palin, of course.

[Bryn]

Conversely, I wonder what Sorabji - who was out of UK for an extended period when his first volume of essays was very poorly proof-read and published in his absence - would have made of it had those proof-reading shortcomings led to its being entitled A Round Music instead of Around Music?...

Perhape they had KSS71 in mind.