Website - total lack of playlists for Composer of the Week!

[Master Jacques]

Of course the new website is a complete pig's ear, totally mismatched with the needs of a CM radio channel - that we already know.

But this really takes the biscuit ... has anyone tried to find a detailed listing of the Purcell extracts being played this week? That's right - such a thing is completely impossible to find, if it exists anywhere at all. This morning I wanted to check which artists were performing the "King Arthur" extracts. Not only nothing about them, but not even a bare listing of the extracts themselves. Great.

Click "playlist", and (after a suitably funereal pause) all that comes up is the Composer of the Week homepage, and copious invocations to "listen again". This I don't wish to do, because I'm listening already in real time, thank you. There is no text about the "episode" (new cross-station terminology, as with calling a single movement of a Bruckner symphony a "song"!) and no indication beyond one sentence about "King Arthur" as to what's being featured.

Now that the BBC has got rid of ALL its message boards (even for "The Archers") of course they can happily get away with this, without having to take notice of any meaningful feedback from frustrated listeners. Bully for them.

[Thropplenoggin]

Of course the new website is a complete pig's ear, totally mismatched with the needs of a CM radio channel - that we already know.

But this really takes the biscuit ... has anyone tried to find a detailed listing of the Purcell extracts being played this week? That's right - such a thing is completely impossible to find, if it exists anywhere at all. This morning I wanted to check which artists were performing the "King Arthur" extracts. Not only nothing about them, but not even a bare listing of the extracts themselves. Great.

Click "playlist", and (after a suitably funereal pause) all that comes up is the Composer of the Week homepage, and copious invocations to "listen again". This I don't wish to do, because I'm listening already in real time, thank you. There is no text about the "episode" (new cross-station terminology, as with calling a single movement of a Bruckner symphony a "song"!) and no indication beyond one sentence about "King Arthur" as to what's being featured.

Now that the BBC has got rid of ALL its message boards (even for "The Archers") of course they can happily get away with this, without having to take notice of any meaningful feedback from frustrated listeners. Bully for them.

Ordinarily, I'd agree, but I was able to find artists for the three episodes here, although it's far from clear how to navigate this to find individual episodes.

Go here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9rxy and use the right chevron ">" in the black vertical box to navigate between episodes, then click on the one you want. The playlist should then appear below the "listen again" box.

e.g. Monday's episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r5nnr

[mercia]

I think this is correct

King Arthur (excerpts). Petteri Salomaa, bass (Cold Genius, Comus), Veronique Gens, soprano (Venus), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor).
Erato: 4509985352

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000005EEH/ref=dp_image_0/178-4234658-7226061?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r5nxg

oh for the golden age of Radio 3 - when there was no website

[DracoM]

And try to find the Late Junction playlists..............three or four clicks, then, unless you're careful, you just keep getting directed back to the iPlayer facility.
And they have the nerve to have an on-screen q'aire about iPlayer to see if it's doing its job.

Ask us about the bluddy programme sites and then get THEM right and easy to use.....................grrrrr!!

[doversoul1]

Ordinarily, I'd agree, but I was able to find artists for the three episodes here, although it's far from clear how to navigate this to find individual episodes.

Go here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9rxy and use the right chevron ">" in the black vertical box to navigate between episodes, then click on the one you want. The playlist should then appear below the "listen again" box.

e.g. Monday's episode http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r5nnr

It’s the complete lack of information BEFORE the programme starts that is so infuriating. I want to know what there is to come and what I am listening to (both the work and the performers) NOW. Those ‘growing lists’ are one of the worst jokes I have been played on for a long time.

Can’t Through the Night production team take over the running of Radio3?

[Roehre]

It’s the complete lack of information BEFORE the programme starts that is so infuriating. I want to know what there is to come and what I am listening to (both the work and the performers) NOW. Those ‘growing lists’ are one of the worst jokes I have been played on for a long time.

Can’t Through the Night production team take over the running of Radio3?

I share your disgust as well as your wish - the latter being one of my piae desideratae .

[Master Jacques]

Thank you Thropplenoggin for directing me to the past playlists. The problem was, that during the programme itself there was absolutely nothing to be found. These "growing lists", telling us in great detail what we might have heard after the event, are indeed pure Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Is anybody at R3 listening to our frustrations with listings? Judging from the condescending, pro-forma email reply I've just had from CotW enjoining me to "continue enjoying the programme" (despite the fact that I was detailing reasons why I wasn't!) the answer is - NO.

[Master Jacques]

I think this is correct

King Arthur (excerpts). Petteri Salomaa, bass (Cold Genius, Comus), Veronique Gens, soprano (Venus), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor).
Erato: 4509985352

Muchas gracias, mercia!

[Thropplenoggin]

Thank you Thropplenoggin for directing me to the past playlists. The problem was, that during the programme itself there was absolutely nothing to be found. These "growing lists", telling us in great detail what we might have heard after the event, are indeed pure Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Is anybody at R3 listening to our frustrations with listings? Judging from the condescending, pro-forma email reply I've just had from CotW enjoining me to "continue enjoying the programme" (despite the fact that I was detailing reasons why I wasn't!) the answer is - NO.

First, "Jam tomorrow!" and now it's Kafka.

I was tempted to email CotW to commend them on being that rare bird: a Radio 3 programme that is thoughtfully put-together and intellectually stimulating. If all one gets are pro-forma dross, I shan't bother.