Skelly leaving Essential Classics

[cloughie]

..... or they could tell the voters of Hartlepool he is a Spanish spy ......

Hang on a minute...

[antongould]

Especially as most were copied to @BBCRadio3

But will they care about a mere 166 households putting the boot in? I’m sure the bean-counters will relegate the feedback to a negligible footnote, if that...

But if a man who regularly breaks cake with the Rat Controller were to make it 167 it could be a game changer .....

[cloughie]

But if a man who regularly breaks cake with the Rat Controller were to make it 167 it could be a game changer .....

Or even if they meet but declines the cake!

[Nick Armstrong]

But if a man who regularly breaks cake with the Rat Controller were to make it 167 it could be a game changer .....

I might try the direct approach. I’d feel a bit of a fraud though - haven’t heard him on EC for years, they lost me way back with their gimmicky format...

[french frank]

I might try the direct approach. I’d feel a bit of a fraud though - haven’t heard him on EC for years, they lost me way back with their gimmicky format...

It's this awful idea of thinking up ways to be lively and entertaining, with variety of interest, moving from one familiar segment to the next. It suits the kind of audience they want to attract - one as interested in the format, presenter and style as the musical content which simply acts as the link between the presenters and their waffle. "That's Entertainment." Pooh!

[eighthobstruction]

....look folks - They've run it up the flag pole and the wind has taken it -Georgia does yoga and palates on Monday Weds Friday afternoons so, needs a morning slot . Never back down, never say you are sorry....whisk it away with the offer of free fancies ...."Refresh something TODAY" - the motto on nevery BBC executives wall....justify your existence [another ]..... Spring cleaning - Refresh the armpit....but save the rest till the fat lady sings....Best of luck Ian Skelly....

ED: have no fear if you cannot comprehend this post - I'm off to refresh something any moment now....[Hmmmm ?? Free Fancies Eh]

[cloughie]

....look folks - They've run it up the flag pole and the wind has taken it -Georgia does yoga and palates on Monday Weds Friday afternoons so, needs a morning slot . Never back down, never say you are sorry....whisk it away with the offer of free fancies ...."Refresh something TODAY" - the motto on nevery BBC executives wall....justify your existence [another ]..... Spring cleaning - Refresh the armpit....but save the rest till the fat lady sings....Best of luck Ian Skelly....

ED: have no fear if you cannot comprehend this post - I'm off to refresh something any moment now....[Hmmmm ?? Free Fancies Eh]

But if they din’t sing well that’s the point the off button is pressed on EC!

[antongould]

....look folks - They've run it up the flag pole and the wind has taken it -Georgia does yoga and palates on Monday Weds Friday afternoons so, needs a morning slot . Never back down, never say you are sorry....whisk it away with the offer of free fancies ...."Refresh something TODAY" - the motto on nevery BBC executives wall....justify your existence [another ]..... Spring cleaning - Refresh the armpit....but save the rest till the fat lady sings....Best of luck Ian Skelly....

ED: have no fear if you cannot comprehend this post - I'm off to refresh something any moment now....[Hmmmm ?? Free Fancies Eh]

Wonderful 8O

[antongould]

I might try the direct approach. I’d feel a bit of a fraud though - haven’t heard him on EC for years, they lost me way back with their gimmicky format...

Rumpole often resorted to a bit of “fraud” ............

[DracoM]

<< The only alternative I can see other than subscription based non-broadcast services is direct arms-length tax support but (a) the number of channels will need to be reduced (b) the politics of say a low cost regional Gaelic channel or Welsh channel for kids may be acceptable but for R1? ? and (c) does anyone really think a Tory government that has taken us out of a social democrat Europe with an eye on a low tax, American style system would even consider public investment (eg it even stopped much of the low cost World service whose soft sell of British Culture was infinitely better than hundreds of embassies). >>

The pain, oh, the pain of so many truths.

Which is why I suspect so many of us are dropping in on ONLINE statoins in languages we cannot understand / do NOT need to understand because, weirdly, we consider the MUSIC in itself to be the raison d'etre and sine qua non of any classical music station.

Stuff the ingratiating attempt to wheedle the listeners into staying with them.

[eighthobstruction]

....get your ropes/pitons/crampons out of loft....there's "a range of cultural knowedge [coming] to the morning schedules"...." because it is there Tenzing"...."we have travelled in from far, some as far as Orpington, Tenzing, let us do our work, we have much to do to tally and tame K2 oh cough ahem.... R3".....of course we can now guess all this done on a zoom call....

[oddoneout]

....get your ropes/pitons/crampons out of loft....there's "a range of cultural knowedge [coming] to the morning schedules"...." because it is there Tenzing"...."we have travelled in from far, some as far as Orpington, Tenzing, let us do our work, we have much to do to tally and tame K2 oh cough ahem.... R3".....of course we can now guess all this done on a zoom call....

Whatever and with what you refreshed seems to have been effective 8thO!

[Gary Freer]

Shame - Skellers is the most entertaining presenter by far. Getting the same treatment given to Simon Mayo on R2.

[eighthobstruction]

Whatever and with what you refreshed seems to have been effective 8thO!

I've found the secret ingredient - I see the way ahead....

[Jack Dawes]

Thanks for posting this, I too was disheartened by monday's announcement. It's amazing how chipper he managed to sound in spite of it all, the sign of a true professional.