Originally posted by jayne lee wilson
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Tearjerker, Downtown Symphony, Piano Flow, Happy Harmonies and other Saturday padding
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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostI think it was an urban myth to be honest ..but Our Tune did have a huge audience - 11 million at its height.
NB Fewer than 1% of registered HGV drivers are female, so statistically those apocryphally reported to be in tears in any given layby while listening to Our Tune would have overwhelmingly - if not exclusively - been male. I suspect all HGV drivers have to be fairly tough to handle a 44-tonner.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostBBC research did reveal that overnight lorry drivers were among the very few listening to TTN at about 3am. The total live audience, including insomniacs, is/was only (if I remember) c. 3,000. Certainly less than listen to TTN on demand now during the daytime.
NB Fewer than 1% of registered HGV drivers are female, so statistically those apocryphally reported to be in tears in any given layby while listening to Our Tune would have overwhelmingly - if not exclusively - been male. I suspect all HGV drivers have to be fairly tough to handle a 44-tonner.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostDesigned to turn off the kind of listener they don't want and not bother the kind of listener they do want.
I have heard that TTN is favourite listening for some overnight lorry drivers. Just wait until they start complaining!
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostThe adagios from the Saint-Saens' 3rd Symphony, and the Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto, which tend to turn up fairly frequently. Khachaturian's Adagio of Spartacus and Phyrgia comes around and around too; slays me every time. I have to stop chopping the salad in case, blinded by hot tears, I cut my finger; or the knife skids off the board, narrowly missing a Cat.......I often feel compelled to air-conduct that one...
Last night Myleene gave us - wait for it - the andante from the Raff Symphony No.4....(only telling us afterward, of course...lovely piece, never knew it)...
So there's some innovative programming for you...and the serendipity I crave....
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Originally posted by french frank View PostDesigned to turn off the kind of listener they don't want and not bother the kind of listener they do want.
I have heard that TTN is favourite listening for some overnight lorry drivers. Just wait until they start complaining!
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Originally posted by Leinster Lass View PostIt might keep those heading for Dover calm as they try to decipher their new Customs declarations or whatever.
No, on second thoughts, a sequence of Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, O Happy Day, Exsultate, Jubilate &c might send them mad.
Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostAt the risk of labouring the point according to Simon Bates in that classic book on Radio 1 The Nation’s Favourite the management hated Our Tune and did everything they could to can it . Whenever it was taken off they were deluged with complaints. As William Goldman said about the movie business “no one knows anything.” It’ll probably be a massive hit ( in 5am terms) .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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI would have thought "Cheer Up Time" would have been more suitable than "Tearjerker".
No, on second thoughts, a sequence of Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, O Happy Day, Exsultate, Jubilate &c might send them mad.
I'm genuinely unsure what kind of audience is listening to R3 at 5am.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostBBC research did reveal that overnight lorry drivers were among the very few listening to TTN at about 3am. The total live audience, including insomniacs, is/was only (if I remember) c. 3,000. Certainly less than listen to TTN on demand now during the daytime.
NB Fewer than 1% of registered HGV drivers are female, so statistically those apocryphally reported to be in tears in any given layby while listening to Our Tune would have overwhelmingly - if not exclusively - been male. I suspect all HGV drivers have to be fairly tough to handle a 44-tonner.
There's a whole tribe of Cara Dunes out there....!
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostIt 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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Originally posted by Heldenleben View PostIsn’t it the pre-breakfast slot generally put in a safe -pair -of -hands like Alan Partridge ?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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI'm genuinely unsure what kind of audience is listening to R3 at 5am.
Increasingly, and not through choice I might add, I find myself listening at 5am. I don't know whether to feel pleased or concerned that statistically I might be slightly significant in terms of listening figures!
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