Happy Birthday TTN!

[kernelbogey]

Through the Night is 25 years old today - started its nocturnal life 5 May1996 - and a generous tribute from the Breakfast Team this morning to the programme and its current presenters Catriona Young, John Shea and Jonathan Swain.

As Jonathan Swain rightly said at the top of his TTN at 0030 today 'We must be doing something right!'

[kernelbogey]

I listen to more hours of TTN than to the rest of Radio Three output together.

How do others here listen?

Some poor sleepers have it on all night....

Some dip in late at night (early hours) others first thing before getting up.

Truck drivers love it!

Any appreciations here...?

[LMcD]

I listen to more hours of TTN than to the rest of Radio Three output together.

How do others here listen?

Some poor sleepers have it on all night....

Some dip in late at night (early hours) others first thing before getting up.

Truck drivers love it!

Any appreciaions here...?

On sleepless nights I alternate between TTN and the World Service, both of which treat their listeners like grown-ups and offer fare not always otherwise available.

[Bryn]

On sleepless nights I alternate between TTN and the World Service, both of which treat their listeners like grown-ups and offer fare not always otherwise available.

[AuntDaisy]

It's usually music to work by for me, and, like kernelbogey, I probably listen to more TTN than the rest of R3 combined.
The Gabrieli was a fine start to today.

I wonder if any of the first broadcast survives? Don't think it's listed in Archives. I'd love to see Donald Macleod's early notes & thoughts...

[antongould]

I wake up to it and call on it’s help in the dark hours when necessary .... a jewel ......

[Nick Armstrong]

I wonder if any of the first broadcast survives? Don't think it's listed in Archives. I'd love to see Donald Macleod's early notes & thoughts...

Not sure... but at least here’s the R3 page from the first broadcast on 4 May 1996, posted by John Shea this morning, so you can see the programme content:



Interesting also to see a snapshot of a Saturday on R3 25 years ago!

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While I’m at it, he also posted a rather better copy of his RT article than the slightly crumpled photo I posted on the main thread:

[gurnemanz]

Happy birthday! But what a pity and a waste that its accessibility is made complicated by its being transmitted when most people are asleep. This must severely restrict its audience. Indeed, that is the reason why, despite the acknowledged quality of its output, it has for me never become staple listening. As with other national broadcasters (eg RAI Italy, YLE Finland) there should be a parallel alternative to the music + talk channel which broadcasts only classical music - chat free, complete works, 24-7. TTN could be a key part of such a channel.

Radio Three post-noon is fine by me.

[kernelbogey]

I'd love to see Donald Macleod's early notes & thoughts...

I think there's a bit about its genesis in Humphrey Carpenter's book about the Third, The Envy of the World. (Years since I read it, mind.)

[kernelbogey]

As with other national broadcasters (eg RAI Italy, YLE Finland) there should be a parallel alternative to the music + talk channel which broadcasts only classical music - chat free, complete works, 24-7. TTN could be a key part of such a channel.

And if you were creating such a channel, and wondering what to call it, you might even dream up the name Radio Three Extra....

[AuntDaisy]

Not sure... but at least here’s the R3 page from the first broadcast on 4 May 1996, posted by John Shea this morning, so you can see the programme content:

Interesting also to see a snapshot of a Saturday on R3 25 years ago!
While I’m at it, he also posted a rather better copy of his RT article than the slightly crumpled photo I posted on the main thread:

Thanks for the images NA. Now found them on Twitter and Donald M has posted a tape image of a Radio 3 relic!!!!

https://twitter.com/DonaldMacleod01/status/1382802017853259776

[cloughie]

Not sure... but at least here’s the R3 page from the first broadcast on 4 May 1996, posted by John Shea this morning, so you can see the programme content:



Interesting also to see a snapshot of a Saturday on R3 25 years ago!

.

While I’m at it, he also posted a rather better copy of his RT article than the slightly crumpled photo I posted on the main thread:

Looks like a day of proper listening - and I wouldn’t mind hearing that Zadeh and Wilson concert. Looks as though the ‘bleeding chunks’ were beginning to creep in with the Mellor proramme!

[AuntDaisy]

The Holy Relic... Oh that Grand-High Master Donald M would share a digital copy.

https://twitter.com/DonaldMacleod01/status/1382802017853259776

[Serial_Apologist]

I have a cassette of that Zadeh/Cassandra broadcast! I thought I mustapha it.

Normally I have TTN on all night - sometimes hoping I'll wake up for some named composer I've not heard of before and need to Google check, sometimes drifting into the start of Breakfast, which is occasionally eased into with something interesting worth a blindfold composer test before demanding the off switch. If something noisy wakes me up I switch over to Radio 4.

[LMcD]

Happy birthday! But what a pity and a waste that its accessibility is made complicated by its being transmitted when most people are asleep. This must severely restrict its audience. Indeed, that is the reason why, despite the acknowledged quality of its output, it has for me never become staple listening. As with other national broadcasters (eg RAI Italy, YLE Finland) there should be a parallel alternative to the music + talk channel which broadcasts only classical music - chat free, complete works, 24-7. TTN could be a key part of such a channel.

Radio Three post-noon is fine by me.

I guess a programme called Through The Night is more likely than not to be transmitted when people are asleep...