Originally posted by pilamenon
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3beebies aka Breakfast
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Originally posted by pilamenon View PostI'm pretty sure that chamber, baroque and choral will be very represented indeed if the sample is widened to several days.
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Originally posted by mercia View PostI couldn't say, I've no particular reason to believe that would be the case
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Originally posted by mercia View Postof course (well I hope of course - let's see another day ), but I would argue that in the 2011 schedules all genres and historic periods are represented every day
I don't hear much , especially during the day time.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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There were no typical days. There was much more variation from one day to another. Music in our Time would have been once a week, and quite possibly not all year round - it might have been one of three or four formats sharing the 9pm (ish) slot over the course of a year. There might have been six weeks of that, then six weeks of the ars nova then six weeks of "Talking about Music".
This is how minority interests were dealt with. For example, for some years, organ music got about twelve hours a year, with two six-week runs of one-hour programmes late at night - eagerly looked forward to by the teenage Vile Consort!
The "banding" of the week into fixed slots has certainly had a stifling effect on creativity and variety.
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Originally posted by Vile Consort View PostThere were no typical days [...] The "banding" of the week into fixed slots has certainly had a stifling effect on creativity and variety.
Someone inside R3 told me that the producer's job is now largely reduced to coming up with a playlist. The 'creative' ideas are 'what shall we ask the listeners to email in about?'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 PostRadio 3's schedule was more like Radio 4's is now - or even more so! Part of the reason why Radio 4 is so expensive to run is the variety of different programmes, separately commissioned.
Someone inside R3 told me that the producer's job is now largely reduced to coming up with a playlist. The 'creative' ideas are 'what shall we ask the listeners to email in about?'I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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you raise an interesting point Caliban in your several recent posts .... these listener hook manipulations do work on other stations, the R3 people are bad at it ... do we object in principle [ i do ] or is the distress aggravated by the teeth grinding naffness of the execution ... if it were done well might it just be palatable?According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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BobDM
I am so pleased to find this forum because it lets me know I am not alone. When the trash that now passes for Breakfast was first aired I could not believe it. Petroc Trelawny at 6.40 a.m. is just too much for a sensitive stomach. I promptly e-mailed the programme to express my disgust but, surprise surprise, they did not bother to reply.
Thankfully shortly before the change we bought an internet radio and I now listen to a very pleasant programme broadcast from Australia. Once you get used to the idea that their 5 o'clock round up of local arts events is 7 a.m. it is fine. Mind you the continual mentions of the same event does get a little repetitive after the 2nd week so my wife would like to know if anybody has found a good classical music station without the features of 3beebies.
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by BobDM View PostI am so pleased to find this forum because it lets me know I am not alone. When the trash that now passes for Breakfast was first aired I could not believe it. Petroc Trelawny at 6.40 a.m. is just too much for a sensitive stomach. I promptly e-mailed the programme to express my disgust but, surprise surprise, they did not bother to reply.
Thankfully shortly before the change we bought an internet radio and I now listen to a very pleasant programme broadcast from Australia. Once you get used to the idea that their 5 o'clock round up of local arts events is 7 a.m. it is fine. Mind you the continual mentions of the same event does get a little repetitive after the 2nd week so my wife would like to know if anybody has found a good classical music station without the features of 3beebies.
KUSC mentioned by teamsaint is the one I turn to, but it has personal nostalgia and resonances for me from driving around Southern California. It could be annoying to some.
The Dutch stations AVRO are good if you don't mind not understanding the commentary - on this page, you can click for the Concertgebouw channel, the general classic music channel, and the 24/7 Baroque music channel: http://cultuurgids.avro.nl/front/arc...%22Webradio%22"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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