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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    #91
    just for clarification, does one swich off because one doesn't like the Lark or because one doesn't like PT?

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    • Frances_iom
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 2411

      #92
      Originally posted by aeolium View Post
      You keep hitting that OFF switch in the morning, Calum, but my question is: why do you hit the ON switch knowing what is likely to come?
      possibly like me invested in a clock/radio many years ago - mine is now set for 7.25am so that weekdays I catch the 7.30 short bulletin then switch off - I'm afraid PT in his new listen-to-me-tweet wanabee-DJ mode an instant turnoff

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        #93
        well hope over experience i guess; most especially the maundering meander of PT and the LARK AGAIN and it's habit innit ...actually what i need is PT and the LARK AGAIN every time i light a ciggie ... now that would be of use ....
        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8775

          #94
          So no one made it to the Elderly (as ff says we have to call them) person with his tale of Finzi and then the IMHO lovely piece of Finzi?

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          • aka Calum Da Jazbo
            Late member
            • Nov 2010
            • 9173

            #95
            alas no, and i like Finzi very much ....
            According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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            • french frank
              Administrator/Moderator
              • Feb 2007
              • 30213

              #96
              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
              I believe that it was in the period before that referred to above by ff - mid nineties? - that PT first appeared on R3 on whatever the equivalent of Breakfast was. I stopped listening to that early morning show on R3 for several years as a result.

              Have I remembered correctly that it was at the end of that period that Andrew MacGregor began introducing that show? For me he set the gold standard for that time of the day - in content as well as voice.
              Andrew presented On Air weekdays up until about April 1998, when Record Review was at 7am. It then moved to 9am and Humphrey Carpenter started presenting a weekend edition of On Air. PT was launched at roughly that time as weekday presenter. After the Proms in September 1998, Andrew took over the new 'CD Review'.

              'On Air' became 'Morning on 3' with Penny Gore and Edward Seckerson (later, Martin Handley), I think, in Sept 1999.

              Something like that, anyway. Yes, Andrew was the highpoint for the morning presentation for me too.
              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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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8775

                #97
                Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                alas no, and i like Finzi very much ....
                more than ciggies?

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                • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 9173

                  #98
                  alas no, i'd say yes but my behaviour would give me away i do not listen to Finzi 20 or more times a day ....
                  According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                  • MrGongGong
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 18357

                    #99
                    When I was doing my music degree in the 1980's I did listen to radio 3 , I found all sorts of things there via programmes like Mixing it and late night New music programmes which I listened to as well as Peel etc , Radio 3 got me interested in all sorts of music that was outside the mainstream
                    it was also one of the places to find some of the music we were studying
                    my daughter who is now at University doing a music degree never listens to Radio 3, she listens to and plays loads of different music including the mainstream repertoire that R3 plays endlessly.
                    The world has moved on in that sense, people studying music use the internet to find recordings they go to concerts but don't really do the "sitting down and listening to the radio" that many older folk do. This DOESN'T mean that "classical" music is less popular just that people listen to it in different ways.

                    One thing I realised a long time ago was that there really isn't (apart from Resonance FM) a Radio station for people who want to discover music they didn't know anything about , again that's the way the world is and those of us who are interested in that have to find their opportunities elsewhere !

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                    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 9173

                      my daughter who is now at University doing a music degree never listens to Radio 3, she listens to and plays loads of different music including the mainstream repertoire that R3 plays endlessly.
                      The world has moved on in that sense, people studying music use the internet to find recordings they go to concerts but don't really do the "sitting down and listening to the radio" that many older folk do. This DOESN'T mean that "classical" music is less popular just that people listen to it in different ways.
                      ditto MrGongGong; sprog and her mates use Spotify and were horrified when it started charging so much ...
                      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                      • Lateralthinking1

                        Switched on this morning at 7.45am and got a time check and a news summary. Just what I wasn't wanting.

                        I don't like the references to Twitter. In fact, I probably hate Twitter more than any invention of the past 25 years. It has knocked the hadron collider into second place.

                        I don't wholly dislike Petroc but the way he does smooth is approaching caricature.

                        Was it my imagination or did I hear something about nicknames for composers the other day? Calling Mozart Mozzer. That kind of thing. I'm being serious. Hopefully I was asleep and it was a dream.

                        Are they doing weeks of Petroc with Sarah and weeks of Sara with Rob? I haven't worked that one out yet.

                        I'm not overly keen on Sara. There are some very good women presenters on Radio 3. Unfortunately none of them are in the main time slots.

                        Those who say Weekend Breakfast is better are wrong. I'm not very keen on Martin Handley. As for Clemency Burton-Hill, she's got to be the worst of the lot.

                        (Vote for a better future - R Cowan, A McGregor, S Sharpe)
                        Last edited by Guest; 17-10-11, 20:10.

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                        • arancie33
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 137

                          'On Air' became 'Morning on 3' with Penny Gore and Edward Seckerson (later, Martin Handley), I think, in Sept 1999.
                          I recall another presenter, Sandy Burnett, who sounded sensible and informed yet occasionally asked for listeners' suggestions. One morning in exasperation I emailed the programme to suggest that, as the presenters were very knowledgeable, even expert, this was bit of a waste of talent and time. I got a very quick reply, by return of post as it were, from him to say that, yes, he agreed and had made representations but to no avail. Shortly afterwards he went and was, I believe, replaced by the blesséd Rob Cowan (and read that adjective how you will) whom I hold personally responsible for the inexorable downhill slide of Radio 3 mornings.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30213

                            Vote for a better future - R Cowan
                            the blesséd Rob Cowan (and read that adjective how you will) whom I hold personally responsible for the inexorable downhill slide of Radio 3 mornings


                            Thus does the BBC get away with murder: whatever they do, some like it, some hate it. So they go on doing what they want ...
                            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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                            • kernelbogey
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 5735

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              [....] Humphrey Carpenter started presenting a weekend edition of On Air[....]
                              I remember being a devotee of Humphrey Carpenter's irreverent and quirky presentation, setting my alarm not to miss him. I think he didn't last long perhaps he was too irreverent about the suits.

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                              • Roslynmuse
                                Full Member
                                • Jun 2011
                                • 1235

                                Originally posted by arancie33 View Post
                                ... the blesséd Rob Cowan (and read that adjective how you will) whom I hold personally responsible for the inexorable downhill slide of Radio 3 mornings.
                                I'm glad I'm not alone in feeling slightly more queasy about RC than many on here. Not about his knowledge but about the energetic bonhomie of his presentation that seems to have set a tone of (what seems to me to be) false chumminess that jars with the music being played. Still, if he's the thin end of the wedge, it's grown considerably thicker on the other side in recent months...

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