Radio 3 during the period of National Mourning

[eighthobstruction]

Unfortunately da street spends far too much time being too close to me in places and at times I wish it would just shut up and go away. Wish I could do the same "you have no choice" trick but blasting R3 in public spaces would achieve the impossible and get a policeman to appear I reckon.*

*Mind you, as an exercise to establish whether such rare animals still exist it might be worth it...

....yes indeed, I am that man, a countryman, diurnal in the rural....quiet without plyte, or fights at night, Lords might for sight.....etc etc all possible rhymes....I'm glad car alarms going off happens less these day..>.....sorry off topic....typical 8O codswallop.....Poundland just closed in Skipton [that should keep some of the riff raff off the KINGS highway] (cack on topicish)....

[hmvman]

I've been really enjoying the music on R3 today, a real treat. As others have said, it's a shame it can't be like this all the time!

I try to avoid shopping on Saturdays but I had to go to my local Tesco this afternoon and found that they were piping classical music instead of the usual dross so it made the experience a degree less awful.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I try to avoid shopping on Saturdays but I had to go to my local Tesco this afternoon and found that they were piping classical music instead of the usual dross so it made the experience a degree less awful.

I stopped shopping at Tesco as soon as they introduced piped music.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've been really enjoying the music on R3 today, a real treat. As others have said, it's a shame it can't be like this all the time!

I try to avoid shopping on Saturdays but I had to go to my local Tesco this afternoon and found that they were piping classical music instead of the usual dross so it made the experience a degree less awful.

Yes - should have informed the jazz bored crowd J to Z is off-air. Just switched on to hear what I thought was some previously unheard muscular Vaughan Williams: turned out to be Hindemith's Trauermusik, which I'd never heard and turned out as impressive as I had read it to be. And now - Bliss (literally!).

[Nick Armstrong]

....you lot....you all listen to Radio Clever Buggers....the nearest you get to da street is strolling down the Prom with tiddly-on-pom pom

(PS and no flipping trailers on R3 - a real relief)

[Serial_Apologist]

(PS and no flipping trailers on R3 - a real relief)

Only because they haven't a clue what to plan ahead. At the moment, judging from the selection, the presenter has a box of CDs to hand with "PRINCE CHARLES'S TASTES IN MUSIC" scrawled on the side!

Correction: so, what they're doing is they're going through masters and mistresses of the kings' and queen's music.

[pastoralguy]

Correction: so, what they're doing is they're going through masters and mistresses of the kings' and queen's music.

This is a repeat of a programme that was broadcast yesterday at 14.00.

[Serial_Apologist]

This is a repeat of a programme that was broadcast yesterday at 14.00.

Aha - thanks PG!

[Andrew]

I can’t remember when I last cared about anything on R1 - probably 50 years or thereabouts when I last listened to it - certainly before the Silver Jubilee!

Is Tony Blackburn still presenting the breakfast show....?

[cloughie]

....you lot....you all listen to Radio Clever Buggers....the nearest you get to da street is strolling down the Prom with tiddly-on-pom pom

Steady now there’s traction engines and Camborne Hill! ..and of course da pasty in de ‘and!

[cloughie]

Is Tony Blackburn still presenting the breakfast show....?

Who cares - he was always more interested in Tony Blackburn than the music! They shold’ve given the show to David Symonds when Brian Matthew died!

[oddoneout]

I did not switch off Radio 3 at noon on a Saturday today. I fear that normal life will soon be back, with inanity reintroduced to the channel.

Possibly not complete inanity, but the KD/PT duet does not please me - I was right to be wary - so the off switch has been used. Never mind, there has been much to appreciate throughout the day.

[hmvman]

I stopped shopping at Tesco as soon as they introduced piped music.

Well, I did the main shopping at Aldi, where there is no piped music, but there were a few things they were out of today so I was forced to go to Tesco..

[Jazzrook]

Some sense from Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/September/the-death-parade

JR

[Nick Armstrong]

Some sense from Andrew O'Hagan in the LRB:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2022/September/the-death-parade

JR

Absolutely brilliant