Originally posted by LMcD
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Essential Classics - The Continuing Debate
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Although I don't depend solely on IMDB ratings when deciding whether to watch a particular film, they have probably saved me some valuable time over the years - the relevance to this thread being that the 1973 TV version (of which I hadn't previously heard) has a slightly higher rating - 6.7 as against 6.4 - than the 1949 film.
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Originally posted by Anastasius View PostSuccinctly put as I couldn't agree more with you. Not helped by the choice of presenter IMO.
“I may be mistaken, but some of the recent ECs with Mr Skelly do seem to have had longer - possibly even complete- pieces.
If the powers that be can't be bothered to engage with the audience(who would be only too happy to make constructive and workable suggestions) they could do worse than consult aforementioned gentleman who is not only pretty clued up about his listeners but also not afraid to make his views known to said listeners by means of somewhat subversive humour on air and I think more directly via online means(to judge from a couple of email replies I have had from him) .... “
I wouldn’t disagree with a word of this .....
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Roughly once or twice each week my wife and I have to drive 40 or 50 km to Cheltenham or Bristol, and, naturally, R3 comes to mind. Though it frequently goes off again almost immediately owing to the amount of waffle and stupid 'competitions' going on. In the face of all that, the noise of the road is frequently preferable. The cripts used to introduce competitions and the like seems repetitive, banal, condescending, and fatuous - to say nothing of boring.
One can only surmise that this 'programme' and others ('mixtape' whatever that is, tape having gone out with the ark, 'playlists', etc..) are conceived as cheap means of filling the available space.
Usually only live concert broadcasts and 'Composer of the Week' are worth devoting attention to. It's a sad come-down after earlier years when listening to the Third Programme was what drew me into a life in music.
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Originally posted by researcher View PostRoughly once or twice each week my wife and I have to drive 40 or 50 km to Cheltenham or Bristol, and, naturally, R3 comes to mind. Though it frequently goes off again almost immediately owing to the amount of waffle and stupid 'competitions' going on. In the face of all that, the noise of the road is frequently preferable. The cripts used to introduce competitions and the like seems repetitive, banal, condescending, and fatuous - to say nothing of boring.
One can only surmise that this 'programme' and others ('mixtape' whatever that is, tape having gone out with the ark, 'playlists', etc..) are conceived as cheap means of filling the available space.
Usually only live concert broadcasts and 'Composer of the Week' are worth devoting attention to. It's a sad come-down after earlier years when listening to the Third Programme was what drew me into a life in music.
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