Radio 3 during the period of National Mourning

[Boilk]

At 3pm on Christmas Day we'll all be watching the King's Speech...if only for the novelty

[LHC]

My guess is that given LNOTP is as much a national institution as the monarchy, it will.

If it does go ahead, they might change the programme, as they did after 9/11 in 2001, with more appropriate music and less inane flag waving.

[Pulcinella]

At 3pm on Christmas Day we'll all be watching the King's Speech...if only for the novelty

I thought that Colin Firth was pretty impressive in that.

[Nick Armstrong]

According to the RAH website tonight's Prom was cancelled altogether (as well as its broadcast). Since it included the Eroica Symphony it's hard to imagine a more appropriate work to play on such an evening, but there we go. A friend went to the concert, and apparently the orchestra came on to the stage and played the National Anthem and Nimrod. Not sure if there was anything else apart from a long silence. Was anybody else there?

I just expressed something similar on an adjacent thread…

Call me an obstreperous republican (which I’m not) but surely Beethoven 3 would at least have remained appropriate…?

[Nick Armstrong]

I wonder whether the Last Night Of the Proms will go ahead ?

Nope…

[Nick Armstrong]

anything would be better and more appropriate than uninformed 'discussion' on all channels

“A sequence of music” with Penny Gore started at half-past midnight (after a midnight Elgar Cello Concerto, apparently) and other sequences are scheduled for all of Friday.

At present Saturday’s schedule is as normal, but I’d be surprised if that doesn’t change

[Dave2002]

I wonder whether the Last Night Of the Proms will go ahead ?

What about football matches?

[oddoneout]

“A sequence of music” with Penny Gore started at half-past midnight (after a midnight Elgar Cello Concerto, apparently) and other sequences are scheduled for all of Friday.

At present Saturday’s schedule is as normal, but I’d be surprised if that doesn’t change

Pleased that we are in sequences of music mode now rather than endless chat and speculation. Items on Petroc's slot being chosen for connections - so currently Duke Ellington Nutcracker Suite and a movement from more usual version - I am looking forward to what will turn up over the rest of the programme.

[Jazzrook]

"The energy bills crisis is, of course, insignificant now" according to Clive Myrie.

JR

[Frances_iom]

R4 remains in remembrance mode - yet there is still a war on in Europe that is mostly responsible for pushing us and the rest of Europe in a significant recession that is going unreported, no-one has dared to raise the suitability of our new monarch for the role given some very poor judgement in the past.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

R4 remains in remembrance mode - yet there is still a war on in Europe that is mostly responsible for pushing us and the rest of Europe in a significant recession that is going unreported, no-one has dared to raise the suitability of our new monarch for the role given some very poor judgement in the past.

Suitability for the role isn't a criterion for our prime ministers any more; why should it be so for a symbolic role like the monarch?

[french frank]

Suitability for the role isn't a criterion for our prime ministers any more; why should it be so for a symbolic role like the monarch?

It's never been a criterion for the role of monarch. Elizabth II was a pretty rare exception (though on the whole the women have done a goodish job!).

[Mario]

I sincerely hope posters do not consider me insensitive.

Malta was a special place for the Queen.

https://awol.com.au/why-malta-was-one-of-the-queens-favourite-destinations/96468

My country is deeply saddened by her passing.

RIP

[smittims]

For a long time I used to go to bed early, so I ddin't realise 'something was up' until I switched on 'Through the Night ' at 4 am. and heard the change of tone and guessed what had happened.

I had to switch off 'Woman's Hour' after a few minutes , being unable to stand the number of times 'incredible' was used. Is there something English about this propensity for repeating obvious platitudes endlessly as if they're saying something new, or do other nations do it?

[oddoneout]

For a long time I used to go to bed early, so I ddin't realise 'something was up' until I switched on 'Through the Night ' at 4 am. and heard the change of tone and guessed what had happened.

I had to switch off 'Woman's Hour' after a few minutes , being unable to stand the number of times 'incredible' was used. Is there something English about this propensity for repeating obvious platitudes endlessly as if they're saying something new, or do other nations do it?

I think it happens across the pond as well...
At times like this I avoid the spoken word offerings, so it is good to have music on R3.
It isn't directly music related (but links wouldn't be hard to find for light eternal etc) but lacking a dedicated QE2 option I'll offer this here as I think it works on several levels.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/sep/08/ben-jennings-on-the-death-of-the-queen-cartoon