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I've always felt slightly smug that my 7:30 - 8:00 drive to work usually gives me a relatively gimmick free half hour of the Breakfast Programme - if I'm a bit late and they start to play one of the dreadful concatenations of the best 10 seconds from what's on during the next hour I simply turn off. Now it looks as if I won't be listening at all with the "experiment" to move my/your/bad call (whatever it's called!) to just after the 7:30 news.
I've always felt slightly smug that my 7:30 - 8:00 drive to work usually gives me a relatively gimmick free half hour of the Breakfast Programme - if I'm a bit late and they start to play one of the dreadful concatenations of the best 10 seconds from what's on during the next hour I simply turn off. Now it looks as if I won't be listening at all with the "experiment" to move my/your/bad call (whatever it's called!) to just after the 7:30 news.
That's interesting. Fewer people are listening at 7.30. I wonder whether it hasn't proved popular or whether the idea is to attract more people to the earlier time? Given that in the early morning people listen at the time that suits them (rather than because of what's on), I'd say the former: at 7.30 it will annoy fewer people than at 8.30
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
..and how pleasing to hear whole movements of a Mozart piano concerto and a Schubert piano sonata on Sunday (the only day on which I listen).
Does anybody else remember an interview with Rob Cowan in an issue of the Radio Times that featured a major 'relaunch' of Radio 3, in which he assured us that there would be NO individual movements torn from larger works without a very good reason?
..and how pleasing to hear whole movements of a Mozart piano concerto and a Schubert piano sonata on Sunday (the only day on which I listen).
Does anybody else remember an interview with Rob Cowan in an issue of the Radio Times that featured a major 'relaunch' of Radio 3, in which he assured us that there would be NO individual movements torn from larger works without a very good reason?
there would be NO individual movements torn from larger works without a very good reason?
There has always been a proviso: no single movements without 'editorial justification' ...
As the sun is out, I shall leave you to ponder on the sense of 'editorial justification'.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
Chrildren often wish they could live on a diet of lollipops - no reason for the Beeb to force feed listeners the same - quite a difference between playing a virtuoso lollipop after a concert than suggesting that they make a wholesome diet and should form the basis of planning.
Chrildren often wish they could live on a diet of lollipops - no reason for the Beeb to force feed listeners the same - quite a difference between playing a virtuoso lollipop after a concert than suggesting that they make a wholesome diet and should form the basis of planning.
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