In Tune

[french frank]

it is striking that the sackings appear to be all men being replaced by women presenters.

Is this correct? There are no new R3 women, are there? James Jolly is the only one for whom I haven't yet seen a replacement slot. KD > SK > SW > JJ&JS. Hannah French turned up one week on TEMS, but it's not really clear who is going to be the regular presenter. Still LS? Looks as if Tom Redmond is being given a go on Ao3.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Well, he's not talking about the presenter of In Tune, who is Sean Rafferty!

Hence my 'S'!

[Barbirollians]

Is this correct? There are no new R3 women, are there? James Jolly is the only one for whom I haven't yet seen a replacement slot. KD > SK > SW > JJ&JS. Hannah French turned up one week on TEMS, but it's not really clear who is going to be the regular presenter. Still LS? Looks as if Tom Redmond is being given a go on Ao3.

Not new true but with expanded roles .

What is Jonathan Swain's new slot ?

[french frank]

What is Jonathan Swain's new slot ?

I didn't say he had a new slot, but you implied that men were being 'sacked'. JS has always done TTN.

Expanded roles on Essential Classics and a new "Sunday Essential Classics" (if that's what it turns out to be) look more like a poisoned chalice to me. Sarah Walker is the only one taking over from the (exclusively!) male presenters of Sunday Morning.

[teamsaint]

I didn't say he had a new slot, but you implied that men were being 'sacked'. JS has always done TTN.

Expanded roles on Essential Classics and a new "Sunday Essential Classics" (if that's what it turns out to be) look more like a poisoned chalice to me. Sarah Walker is the only one taking over from the (exclusively!) male presenters of Sunday Morning.

How is it a poisoned chalice? I understand that this might be the case if women are losing out on presenting specialist programmes, but is that in fact the case?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Listening now to Sunday Morning or if you prefer Sunday Essential Classics it's not so much a Poisoned Chalice as a Lethean Draught .

[kernelbogey]

Listening now to Sunday Morning or if you prefer Sunday Essential Classics it's not so much a Poisoned Chalice as a Lethean Draught .

So... Radio Lethe...?

[Anastasius]

Another nail in the coffin for me. The loss of the COtW at 6.30pm. Davies says that 'the younger generation likes to stream things'...does he really think that this will entice the younger generation? The man is an idiot. If you like classical music you will find it for yourself . Putting together a 'Magical Mystery Tour' at 7pm isn't going to cut it. Meanwhile continuing to lose those of us who used to list to R3 a lot. Now I might manage 30 minutes a week. Sad.

[Nick Armstrong]

Katie Derham is the new presenter of In Tune??

Certainly a new presenter. I caught about 5 minutes of this. Completely unrepresentative, but I wonder if she might not turn out to be good casting for this show. I thought she was totally wrong for the afternoon concert presentations, and avoided her smiley-voice-into-the microphone style like the plague.

But on In Tune, it's about engaging with real people who need her help to make it all work - quite nervous people who are expected to talk and perform live on air (I know quite a seasoned musician who was terrified going on this programme). I've had a couple of direct encounters with KD back in her news reading days - I was live on ITV news sitting next to her at the desk being interviewed about something about which I was supposed to be an expert KD was delightful and a consummate professional - she calmed and prepared me in ideal fashion. The In Tune role is very much along those lines. I don't think she'll have need or time for the sort of artificiality that made her presentation slots in the afternoon a complete no-go area for me. In Tune might just work for her.

[Frances_iom]

Caliban - you may be correct - I briefly switched over to R3 as the news on R4 ended forgetting the new programming - she sounded much more relaxed with a normal conversational manner though she did fluff the opening night for the opera under discussion at the time but was corrected in a way that worked - however being COTW-less decided that a CD was called for - the lack of COTW is a loss for me as I could always hear at 6.30pm but seldom midday.

[teamsaint]

Certainly a new presenter. I caught about 5 minutes of this. Completely unrepresentative, but I wonder if she might not turn out to be good casting for this show. I thought she was totally wrong for the afternoon concert presentations, and avoided her smiley-voice-into-the microphone style like the plague.

But on In Tune, it's about engaging with real people who need her help to make it all work - quite nervous people who are expected to talk and perform live on air (I know quite a seasoned musician who was terrified going on this programme). I've had a couple of direct encounters with KD back in her news reading days - I was live on ITV news sitting next to her at the desk being interviewed about something about which I was supposed to be an expert KD was delightful and a consummate professional - she calmed and prepared me in ideal fashion. The In Tune role is very much along those lines. I don't think she'll have need or time for the sort of artificiality that made her presentation slots in the afternoon a complete no-go area for me. In Tune might just work for her.

Hope so. In Tune should be a corner stone of good scheduling, and it does already have some things going for it.

[doversoul1]

Hope so. In Tune should be a corner stone of good scheduling, and it does already have some things going for it.

I always thought KD hated or felt completely lost being shut up alone in a studio with a microphone. In a couple of TV programmes I happened to see her, she was a relaxed and articulate presenter. Let’s hope she will become an indispensable In Tune presenter.

[peterthekeys]

Another nail in the coffin for me. The loss of the COtW at 6.30pm.

Totally agree. Just can't believe that they've axed the repeat of COtW in favour of another hour of "In Tune" (the one R3 programme which I switch off as soon as it comes on.)

Strange that the two R3 presenters whose voices and delivery I simply cannot bear to listen to are Sean Rafferty and Katy Derham.

[peterthekeys]

I always thought KD hated or felt completely lost being shut up alone in a studio with a microphone.

Maybe she should stick to dancing

[french frank]

Just can't believe that they've axed the repeat of COtW in favour of another hour of "In Tune"

The repeat of CotW has been moved around since Nicholas Kenyon introduced it in the mid-late 1990s and it was on at about midnight. RW moved it to 10pm and it's only been on at 6.30pm for six years (spring 2011?). It may have been a convenient time for those who couldn't listen at midday, but it was always 5 hours dead weight on the Monday-Friday evening schedules, particularly from the time it started repeating the programme from earlier the same day. With the iPlayer there will be no one here (at least) who needs to miss a programme, so it's just the disruption to a fairly recently adopted routine.

I listened to one of KD's Sound of Dance programmes some weeks back and although it didn't interest me (I didn't expect it to), she did seem to have prepared her material much better, and I couldn't fault her delivery.