Radio 3 reaches its nadir

[Sir Velo]

One wouldn't have thought it possible for standards to slip further but on Monday's Composer of the Week Donald MacLeod referred to February 1935 as the month of Elgar's death. One might have thought someone on the production team would have have had sufficient musicological knowledge to notice.

[Serial_Apologist]

One wouldn't have thought it possible for standards to slip further but on Monday's Composer of the Week Donald MacLeod referred to February 1935 as the month of Elgar's death. One might have thought someone on the production team would have have had sufficient musicological knowledge to notice.

How long would that have taken to Google check?

[Stephen Whitaker]

Just a slip of the tongue, I've no doubt the script read 1934.

[Sir Velo]

Just a slip of the tongue, I've no doubt the script read 1934.

Sloppy then. Either way should have been picked up.

[french frank]

One might have thought someone on the production team would have have had sufficient musicological knowledge to notice.

Whereas I would agree with Stephen Whitaker that slips (whatever and made by whomever) are unavoidable, I no longer have confidence that there is always someone on duty at Radio 3 with sufficient musicological knowledge to notice any musical gaffes of that sort. Though they may all know how to pronounce the name of the singer Bono.

[Old Grumpy]

I do that because: Children in Need is mandatory across all BBC platforms (I think they started it?) and it's not worth getting upset about programmes just lasting one day. I get more upset about the endless film music foisted upon us or the 24 hour Bach/Schubert Fest. There are alternative stations, or indeed, silence.

Agreed - pretty dreadful, but it passes.

Attention!

48+ hour Britten fest coming up - jazz zone completely demolished!

[Nick Armstrong]

I heard, unfortunately, part of the Russell Grant interview today. He wasn't even in the same studio, the sound quality was different and it sounded very 'edited' All about his encounter with the Queen Mother - vomit making!!! Shouldn't be allowed.

You heard a Russell Grant 'interview'. I heard the sound of the bottom of the barrel being scraped. Or of a grave being dug for Radio 3

Quite frankly if this sort of crap had been on when I was a kid getting into classical music, I would have been put off for life. This is not, I repeat NOT the way to get kids or anyone into the great repertoire we all know. It smacks of patronising desperation and is utter garbage.

10.30 - 10.55, Thursday 19th December 2013: the official low point of Radio 3 thus far.