CD Review to revert to Record Review?

[EdgeleyRob]

Bring back interpretations on record.

[cincinnatus]

Anyone know how long he's been its presenter / reviewer and whether he has a life-time contract for the programme?

Hello, Seabright.

There was an article in The Independent on 18 Sept 1998 by Bayan Northcott. I don't know how to do links but he wrote 'So farewell then, Record Review..... Richard Osborne, Anthony Burton and Jonathan Swain...... have been sacked. .... Instead we have CD review, fronted by the single bland persona of Andrew McGregor, fresh from On Air.'

Hope that helps.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

189577294

I'm not impressed. I know the last number is 2.

(Only kidding )

[teamsaint]

I'm not impressed. I know the last number is 2.

Blame the online calculator then.

Or my cut and paste technique.

edit....just checked and the calculator didn't have space for anything like enough numbers !!

Hope it didn't ruin anybody's day.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Blame the online calculator then.

Or my cut and paste technique.

I tried to work it out on paper. Before I gave up the struggle, I conceded that you were probably right.

[teamsaint]

I tried to work it out on paper. Before I gave up the struggle, I conceded that you were probably right.

try this site EA:

I got this result this time ....


38300370566548079955998095264206636

although this site

https://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/base_convert/ seems to give a result:


58671330814370960864228442420002860.

[subcontrabass]

00101101001100101110000100111001100010010101010010 10110000111100010010010001111001001010101010100011 111100011100100010

This site https://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe...ase-2-base-10/ gives 58671330814370947338369927216088866 as the equivalent in Base 10 (ignoring the spaces which are assumed to be typos).

[BBMmk2]

Doesn't quite have the Schubertian ring of FF's suggestion (say it out loud to yourself)... 'Andy's Music' is more Camden Market than Vienna Salon!

That's quite true there! :)

[pastoralguy]

Hello, Seabright.

There was an article in The Independent on 18 Sept 1998 by Bayan Northcott. I don't know how to do links but he wrote 'So farewell then, Record Review..... Richard Osborne, Anthony Burton and Jonathan Swain...... have been sacked. .... Instead we have CD review, fronted by the single bland persona of Andrew McGregor, fresh from On Air.'

Hope that helps.

:rolleyes:

[french frank]

:rolleyes:

While it's true that AM was indeed 'fresh from On Air', one aspect I would point to: that a move to having a single presenter, week in, week out, was not a good idea. So Composer of the Week as well and, eventually, Discovering Music both went that way and I think were better when they had a variety of approaches. That has nothing to do with disapproval of any presenter who does act as the single 'host'.

Programmes that didn't go for one presenter had two, alternating. But the idea behind it seems to have been establishing the presenters as essential to the familiar programme 'brand' - and in some cases it reflected changes within the programmes. In other words, presenters were 'promoted'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

While it's true that AM was indeed 'fresh from On Air', one aspect I would point to: that a move to having a single presenter, week in, week out, was not a good idea. So Composer of the Week as well and, eventually, Discovering Music both went that way and I think were better when they had a variety of approaches. That has nothing to do with disapproval of any presenter who does act as the single 'host'.

Programmes that didn't go for one presenter had two, alternating. But the idea behind it seems to have been establishing the presenters as essential to the familiar programme 'brand' - and in some cases it reflected changes within the programmes. In other words, presenters were 'promoted'.

Not always so, frenchie? Record Review was presented solely by John Lade for years, succeeded by ??? before Richard Osborne (although none of them hogged quite as much airtime during the programme as frequently happens now on the "Andy MacGregor Show") - and Music Matters was Michael Oliver's programme for nearly twenty years - never "alternating" with anyone else.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

AMcG is one of the few Radio 3 presenters who does a really good job (apart from those BaL duets), so I see no reason to mess things up.

[french frank]

Not always so, frenchie? Record Review was presented solely by John Lade for years, succeeded by ??? before Richard Osborne (although none of them hogged quite as much airtime during the programme as frequently happens now on the "Andy MacGregor Show") - and Music Matters was Michael Oliver's programme for nearly twenty years - never "alternating" with anyone else.

I don't go back as far as you do, ferney! - as far as Record Review was concerned, I was going by Bayan Northcott's mention of Richard Osborne, Anthony Burton and Jonathan Swain. The 'alternating programmes' I was thinking of were Breakfast, CD Masters/Classical Collection/Essential Classics, In Tune, Late Junction, Wo3 …

It also looks as if in John Lade's day RR was only an hour long … ? When did it change to 3+ hours?

[pastoralguy]

AMcG is one of the few Radio 3 presenters who does a really good job (apart from those BaL duets), so I see no reason to mess things up.

[Tony Halstead]

BUT
he 'butts in' too much and interrupts the 'flow' of his interviewees!