Well, I still wonder what those who hate it now would do to promote a present-day Radio 3, as an intelligent, all-around, artistically, culturally and musical aware station. The problem with concentrating on Classical Music almost exclusively is that it is now in serious competition with high-quality streaming services, Berlin DCH, Medici tv etc etc....
So I think you have to try to promote it somehow - catchily, why not...?
("Passionate Minds" has a ring and a resonance to it for me; "Thoughtful introverts" really does sound like a satirical comedy creation...
Growing up with Radio 3 in the 70s, programmes like Critics Forum, Six Continents, the amazing Radio plays often created by poets like Ted Hughes and Peter Redgrove... were just as important to me as the music. And New Music "Music in Our Time", which often went out on a weekday afternoon, was also a big part of that too. How many here listen to the Proms Premieres?
So the editing of the station will always be a problem of choices, even though most of us can agree about the poor quality of presentation on the TV Proms, for example, or the superfluous shallowness of tweets, instant comments and fragmentary programming....
There's still much good musical programming available from afternoon and evening concerts (and accessible more or less anytime you want); but the competition of such from elsewhere has put a potentially high-quality public service under lot of pressure...
Whoa! Gotta rescue the Guardian and the Gramophone from the thunder quick....
So I think you have to try to promote it somehow - catchily, why not...?
("Passionate Minds" has a ring and a resonance to it for me; "Thoughtful introverts" really does sound like a satirical comedy creation...
Growing up with Radio 3 in the 70s, programmes like Critics Forum, Six Continents, the amazing Radio plays often created by poets like Ted Hughes and Peter Redgrove... were just as important to me as the music. And New Music "Music in Our Time", which often went out on a weekday afternoon, was also a big part of that too. How many here listen to the Proms Premieres?
So the editing of the station will always be a problem of choices, even though most of us can agree about the poor quality of presentation on the TV Proms, for example, or the superfluous shallowness of tweets, instant comments and fragmentary programming....
There's still much good musical programming available from afternoon and evening concerts (and accessible more or less anytime you want); but the competition of such from elsewhere has put a potentially high-quality public service under lot of pressure...
Whoa! Gotta rescue the Guardian and the Gramophone from the thunder quick....
to hint at what I regard as the silliness of the opposite.... but why does it sound funny to you, when it could apply to up to half of the R3 listenership, actual or potential? As a thoughtful introvert myself I'm quite offended by the thought that it sounds like a satirical comedy creation to you (when Passionate Minds, which comes straight from WIA, apparently doesn't), and I feel quite excluded by the thought that R3 values passionate extroverts [their word] who like doing things in groups more highly than they value me. It suggests to me that it wasn't a serious enquiry at all, but was dreamt up to describe the sort of people SK, KD and CB-H feel comfortable broadcasting to. The one time I did a Myers-Briggs test, on a management course and under the supervision of a qualified psychologist, I came out quite emphatically as "Introverted Thinking Judgmental" in terms of my preferences, so clearly R3 wants nothing to do with me. 
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