Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate

[Padraig]

Every one a winner

But we are too creative here to copy anyone else's ideas - AREN'T WE?

We certainly are! Whoever heard of a thread about Hair for goodness sake?

Wait! What a good idea!

[french frank]

Wait! What a good idea!

I used to be able to nip that kind of thing in the bud before it went viral <sigh, remembering the glory days>

[LezLee]

We certainly are! Whoever heard of a thread about Hair for goodness sake?

Wait! What a good idea!

It’s complete with photos, but whether they’re of the poster, who knows?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I used to be able to nip that kind of thing in the bud before it went viral <sigh, remembering the glory days>

Believe me - that will certainly be a tradition continued by the current management; one of whom once completely misunderstood what Folic Acid was meant to help with!

[Padraig]

Believe me - that will certainly be a tradition continued by the current management; one of whom once completely misunderstood what Folic Acid was meant to help with!

Tsk!Tsk!

[french frank]

one of whom once completely misunderstood what Folic Acid was meant to help with!

I follow your line of thought because I though that too

[oddoneout]

We certainly are! Whoever heard of a thread about Hair for goodness sake?

Wait! What a good idea!

The musical?

[LezLee]

Last Friday’s Playlist suggestions were probably the most cringeworthy yet. The initial piece was the dire Elena Kats-Chernin’s ‘Eliza aria’ from ‘Wild Swans’ (Lloyds’ Bank ad.). The first 4 suggestions were: Delibes - Flower Duet, Sugar-plum Fairy, Queen of the Night’s aria and Für Elise (mispronounced as usual). At this point I went and did the washing-up.
SK chose the Flower Duet, another cheesy piece by Kats-Chernin and Vocalise.

This week’s Radio Times mistakes are: Glasgow Pavillion, and in an item about Jo Brand - ‘the story of her performing Bach’s Toccato and Fugue in the Royal Albert Hall’

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Last Friday’s Playlist suggestions were probably the most cringeworthy yet.

I always find the presenters' attempts at encouragement to be the most cringeworthy thing. They're only doing their job, so have to go through the whole charade.

[oddoneout]

I always find the presenters' attempts at encouragement to be the most cringeworthy thing. They're only doing their job, so have to go through the whole charade.

Only one of the presenters knows it's a charade though...I suspect that simply looking at the choice(s) of follow-on pieces would give a pretty good indication of who is on duty on any given day without bothering to name-check.

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=LezLee;732843]Last Friday’s Playlist suggestions were probably the most cringeworthy yet. The initial piece was the dire Elena Kats-Chernin’s ‘Eliza aria’ from ‘Wild Swans’ (Lloyds’ Bank ad.). The first 4 suggestions were: Delibes - Flower Duet, Sugar-plum Fairy, Queen of the Night’s aria and Für Elise (mispronounced as usual). At this point I went and did the washing-up.
SK chose the Flower Duet, another cheesy piece by Kats-Chernin and Vocalise.

This week’s Radio Times mistakes are: Glasgow Pavillion, and in an item about Jo Brand - ‘the story of her performing Bach’s Toccato and Fugue in the Royal Albert Hall’[/QUOTE]

Why are you still buying the Radio Times?

[LezLee]

“Why are you still buying the Radio Times?”

Habit and (misplaced?) loyalty. I’ve grown up with it, never missed a copy even on holiday. We always had it at home including during wartime and my sister and I each carried on with it when we left home. Where else can I see details of ‘Through the Night’? Sad to see the way it’s gone of course.

[french frank]

Where else can I see details of ‘Through the Night’?

Here?

https://www.radio-lists.org.uk/

Click on the Radio 3 box and it lands on the current programme

[LezLee]

No, that doesn’t suit me at all! I want a piece of paper I can annotate in green ink. I hate reading stuff on line. I want to go through RT when it arrives on a Tuesday, read about new programmes, drama etc. on telly and see the cast lists, see at a glance the details of R3 and R4 and so on. It’s specially useful here in Scotland as even the Guardian doesn’t give the variations in TV programmes and doesn’t list BBC Alba or the new BBC Scotland channel.
I rest my case.

[Serial_Apologist]

No, that doesn’t suit me at all! I want a piece of paper I can annotate in green ink. I hate reading stuff on line. I want to go through RT when it arrives on a Tuesday, read about new programmes, drama etc. on telly and see the cast lists, see at a glance the details of R3 and R4 and so on. It’s specially useful here in Scotland as even the Guardian doesn’t give the variations in TV programmes and doesn’t list BBC Alba or the new BBC Scotland channel.
I rest my case.

I bet it's not one of those zip-up things on small wheels that people drag around behind them everywhere, with a pull-up handle!