Yet another gaffe on Breakfast - can R3 get any worse???

[Pianorak]

I'm beginning to feel sorry for SMP. Don't forget that Bredon Hill has been set to music by at least 15 composers and it's easy to overlook that Britten wasn't one of them.

[Eudaimonia]

Apart from the fact that this is Radio 3 and not some backstreet hospital radio station.

I don't like it any more than you do, but what's the desired outcome here? Mere venting? Officially going on record as "we do not approve"? I don't know-- if you were a presenter who made some mistakes and came across a message board full of irate people going ballistic about it, what would you think? I can't really say I'd find it helpful.

[Mr Pee]

I suppose there is bound to be the odd gaffe on Radio3- they broadcast all day and now all night, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Looked at from that perspective, I think perhaps we should all be a little more tolerant of the occasional howler. Let's face it, nobody's died here.

And although I said earlier that this was reminiscent of Classic FM at its worst, R3 has a long way to go before it gets anywhere near that stations level, although I'll admit I haven't listened to it for several years. One classic FM moment that I do remember was after we'd heard a movement of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, and the announcer said, "Well, that was the minuet and trio movement from the Clarinet Quintet by Mozart. And we heard there the Amadeus String Quartet, conducted by Jack Brymer."

As I said, Radio3 has a long way to slide.....

[mercia]

talking of "favourite" CFM moments, they were playing Beethoven 9 one evening, well into the last movement, music suddenly stops, short pause followed by CFM jingle and "Good Evening, this is the 10 o'clock news"

[salymap]

The CFM one that annoyed me, heard more than once, was 'Mendelsohn's Fingal's Cave from his Hebrides suite.'

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Perhaps we should move on. Poor SM-P's had enough by now. As Mr Pee, there are bound to be mistakes.

[pastoralguy]

I know I've said this before but my life collapsed at the end of 1991. I got a horrible job working in a pertrol station doing the night shift. Classic FM had just started and it was a great comfort to me on my graveyard shift. (In those days Radio 3 stopped at midnight).

I know it's not perfect but I do have a soft spot for Classic FM. AND their signal is stronger than Radio 3's! A real help if you're travelling around the wilds of Scotland!

[Suffolkcoastal]

The problem for me was; why did it need listeners to contact R3 to correct it? Are the presenters actually listening to or looking at what they are playing? Presenters often seem to tell us about the performance/recording we have just heard so surely they should know what they have been listening to, unless the required comments have been indicated to them in advance? Regarding the other continuing gaffes, is any preparation done beforehand and is anyone proofreading what goes on the website anymore? Radio 3 is supposed to be a radio station of the highest professional standards, whilst the odd mistake will happen, it is becoming far more than just the 'odd' mistake in recent years.

[Norfolk Born]

Oh dear. This is so reminiscent of Classic FM at it's worst.

Oh dear, it's 'its worst' not 'it's worst'.

[french frank]

Oh dear, it's 'its worst' not 'it's worst'.

Wait ten years or so!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Wait ten years or so!

[Mr Pee]

Oh dear, it's 'its worst' not 'it's worst'.

Duly corrected. I hang my head in shame. I can't abide misplaced apostrophe's.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I can't abide misplaced apostrophe's.

Neither can I. So I squirm if, for any reason, I have to go into Morrisons, Currys or any other grammatically inept chainstore.

[StephenO]

The occasional gaffe is to be expected, I suppose. It's when it's repeated, without correction, that it becomes unacceptable. To misquote Oscar Wilde, "To make one gaffe may be regarded as a misfortune; to make two looks carelessness."

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Whenever I hear that Oscar Wilde quotation, I think of the girl who played Lady Bracknell when I was at school - absolutely brilliant. Margaret Rutherford amd Dame Judy Dench just couldn't compete.