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  • underthecountertenor
    Full Member
    • Apr 2011
    • 1584

    My guess is that it was spotted but too late to do anything about it, and there will be an apology of sorts before the 1 o’clock news.

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    • Ein Heldenleben
      Full Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 6733

      Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
      My guess is that it was spotted but too late to do anything about it, and there will be an apology of sorts before the 1 o’clock news.
      Well you can fade out the wrong Prog say 5 mins in and put out the right one just by doing a couple of quick timings. But to do that you’ve got to find the right file. Problem about sticking with the wrong one is that it has a knock on effect for the rest of the series in terms of publicity and billings. You can end up with a spare show when the run ends . But I won’t bore you with the technicalities- it’s the sort of tedious thing I used to get paid money to sort and thankfully I don’t have to any more .

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      • underthecountertenor
        Full Member
        • Apr 2011
        • 1584

        Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
        Well you can fade out the wrong Prog say 5 mins in and put out the right one just by doing a couple of quick timings. But to do that you’ve got to find the right file. Problem about sticking with the wrong one is that it has a knock on effect for the rest of the series in terms of publicity and billings. You can end up with a spare show when the run ends . But I won’t bore you with the technicalities- it’s the sort of tedious thing I used to get paid money to sort and thankfully I don’t have to any more .
        I can only begin to imagine…. At least Rosenberg was an interesting guest.

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        • Ein Heldenleben
          Full Member
          • Apr 2014
          • 6733

          Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
          I can only begin to imagine…. At least Rosenberg was an interesting guest.
          Yes I’m enjoying listening to it again. I’m reminded that when a series I edited had an episode lost through something or other the boss was cock - a - hoop over saving a few bob. Needless to say the powers that be took the money away.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26520

            Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
            They are putting out the wrong edition of Private Passions .This seems to be the recent programme with Steve Rosenberg rather than the promised Ben Watt. Quite an unusual mistake. I wonder how long it’ll be before anyone notices .

            I tuned in part-way and assumed maybe the Watt programme had been pulled for some current affairs reason (e.g. he’d said something politically-‘sensitive’ and BBC high-ups had suffered a collective loss of spine) - but indeed, I just checked on Sounds, and Sarah Walker did her lead-in to the scheduled edition, not the Rosenberg.

            Remember, Baldrick, we are not at home to Mr. Cock-Up

            The duty Baldrick is going to have an uncomfortable Sunday/Monday…
            "...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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            • Ein Heldenleben
              Full Member
              • Apr 2014
              • 6733

              Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post

              I tuned in part-way and assumed maybe the Watt programme had been pulled for some current affairs reason (e.g. he’d said something politically-‘sensitive’ and BBC high-ups had suffered a collective loss of spine) - but indeed, I just checked on Sounds, and Sarah Walker did her lead-in to the scheduled edition, not the Rosenberg.

              Remember Baldrick, we are not at home to Mr. Cock-Up The duty Baldrick is going to have an uncomfortable Sunday/Monday…
              Yes it was her immaculate lead in to Ben followed by Michael’s no less immaculate intro to Steve which alerted even sleepy me that something was up.

              When it all does wrong for Blackadder.

              Baldrick “ Mr Cock-up sir ?”
              Blackadder “Yes Baldrick.”
              Baldrick “Shall I prepare the spare bedroom?”
              Blackadder (ruefully) “yes , I think you better had .”

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26520

                Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                My guess is that it was spotted but too late to do anything about it, and there will be an apology of sorts before the 1 o’clock news.
                Exactly… No explanation though
                "...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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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26520

                  Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                  Yes it was her immaculate lead in to Ben followed by Michael’s no less immaculate intro to Steve which alerted even sleepy me that something was up.

                  When it all does wrong for Blackadder.

                  Baldrick “ Mr Cock-up sir ?”
                  Blackadder “Yes Baldrick.”
                  Baldrick “Shall I prepare the spare bedroom?”
                  Blackadder (ruefully) “yes , I think you better had .”
                  "...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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                  • Ein Heldenleben
                    Full Member
                    • Apr 2014
                    • 6733

                    Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
                    Exactly… No explanation though
                    The explanation will no doubt take all Monday morning to determine and to find others to blame . I have every sympathy as I’ve been party / witness to many a Baldrickian moment in the noble history of broadcasting. All I can say is it’s amazing it doesn’t happen more often.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26520

                      Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                      The explanation will no doubt take all Monday morning to determine and to find others to blame . I have every sympathy as I’ve been party / witness to many a Baldrickian moment in the noble history of broadcasting. All I can say is it’s amazing it doesn’t happen more often.
                      A Twitter flurry:



                      Baron Berkeley of Knighton will be fuming …
                      "...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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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30226

                        I think I read a few years ago that weekends on 3 were now (after Breakfast?) completely automated. No one at home to notice the error.
                        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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                        • eighthobstruction
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 6427

                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          I think I read a few years ago that weekends on 3 were now (after Breakfast?) completely automated. No one at home to notice the error.
                          ....someone will be out in the stocks - and curators egg aimed at them
                          bong ching

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                          • Ein Heldenleben
                            Full Member
                            • Apr 2014
                            • 6733

                            Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
                            A Twitter flurry:



                            Baron Berkeley of Knighton will be fuming …
                            I think he’s pretty unflappable isn’t he ? Done a lot of live work himself and seen it all before. Fuming gets you nowhere.

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                            • Ein Heldenleben
                              Full Member
                              • Apr 2014
                              • 6733

                              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                              ....someone will be out in the stocks - and curators egg aimed at them
                              Honestly it doesn’t work like that . It’s a bit bemusing why it happened. Don’t know the system in radio but in TV there used to be several separate checks to ensure the correct programme was lined up and you had to view the first two minutes to check it didn’t have the wrong ident no. on the front. I guess things are just automated now.
                              One of my earliest jobs was checking tape spools in continuity against the transmission list but that was forty years ago in the days of 1/4 in tape. Now I suspect it’s just staring at a screen and checking ident numbers.

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                              • smittims
                                Full Member
                                • Aug 2022
                                • 4062

                                Most of us have heard these incidents over the years. Does anyone else remember when Edward Seckerson tipped his coffee into a bank of faders and put Radio 3 off the air for 15 minutes?

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