To the producers of CE...

[subcontrabass]

That sounds suspiciously like some research that was carried out on Through The Night when people were reporting a large rise in two-hour 'segments' that were being repeated - regularly - whereas when the programme started each night had a fresh programme.

Through the Night is subtly different in that (a) as a relatively new programme it took some time to build up an archive before such an archive could be utilized; and (b) the BBC is dependent on recordings supplied by the other broadcasters of the programme. For example, some years ago I was contacted by one of the producers for help in identifying the texts and contexts for some Serbian Orthodox church music, so that he could write the presenter's script. He had only been provided with the titles of the pieces. I was able to provide what he wanted, but the music was, in the end, not broadcast as the recording was not of a good enough quality.

[french frank]

Through the Night is subtly different in that (a) as a relatively new programme it took some time to build up an archive before such an archive could be utilized; and (b) the BBC is dependent on recordings supplied by the other broadcasters of the programme.

Oh, indeed, not at all the same. But that was attributed to funding cuts which I suspect is the main problem here (it was as good as officially confirmed to me earlier in the week).

I had not realised until I looked again at the Annual Report 2016/17 that whereas most BBC radio stations had had their content budgets shaved year on year (Radio 3 by £500,000), Radio 2 had had a whacking increase of more than £6m.

But that's altogether another battle. I just feel that at at least a part of the problem with Radio 3 is the result of BBC decisions, rather than Radio 3's.

[Wolsey]

[...] a number of foundations have their own webcasting facilities,[...]

Do you have figures for this 'number'?

[mw963]

Some quick counting

Thanks for doing that, seems to confirm everything we've suspected.

[jean]

To further complicate, this is the copy of what is on the R3 website: in bold......???

Archive Service from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Choral Evensong

From the Chapel of Keble College, Oxford.

Just FTR, the new RT gives he Sunday 25th broadcast as a repeat of the archive service from Liverpool. And the website's been corrected too.

[DracoM]

jean, I did email the CE producer team. Maybe they actually took notice!!!!