So what's wrong with Radio 3 Breakfast?

[Sir Velo]

I actually e-mailed them a couple of months ago about an incorrect playlist for Hear and Now. To my surprise, I received a response from someone who appeared to be very junior in the organisation, abjectly apologising for their mistake, saying that they worked "across several different programmes and (were) perhaps trying to do too many things at once" and asking whether I had any suggestions (!) to make as to how they could improve their performance. I replied by stating that they should get someone more senior to check their work before it went "live", as it was frustrating to users to have these errors peppering the website. They thanked me for my advice, and said they would suggest it to their line manager.

You couldn't make it up.

[DracoM]

You would wonder if some record companies would not be more angrily vocal in chasing R3 over this since incorrect playlisting diverts possible purchasers into wrong pieces etc.

[french frank]

Is it just me, or is quarter-hourly news updates (started in earnest by 'Breakfast Time' television in 1983) very un-Radio 3? There is, in my honest opinion way way too much news on the BBC (used to be football until the rise of MurdochSky) and a classic case of overkill, affront to the quintissential British trait of patience (until the hour) and pudding over-eggery.

Re the 15-minute news headlines and the disarray of the playlists: there seem to be too many people doing things that are less relevant to R3 and too few involved with what's essential.

The BBC is at home with anything news related (yes, I know, it gets things wrong there too!) - R3 now, apparently, gets it news bulletins from Radio 4; it becomes more and more uneasy with anything related to culture and the arts. No one who knows what's correct and what isn't to check the website.