A Bit of News

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

On the sonic journey down the Thames, you might just about be able to make out the sound of me screaming, six miles away to the south.

Quick! Someone record this - it can feature at the end of the next New Music Show!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

SM-P too busy now she's big boss at Dartington, perhaps..
OG

Although she does have a new job "fronting" the new Night Tracks programme:

Night Tracks
A revamped evening weekday schedule will showcase a new late-night show for Radio 3, Night Tracks.

A show with classical music at its heart, Night Tracks will take listeners on an immersive sonic journey, with innovative sound design tailored for late-night listening.

Night Tracks will be fronted by BBC Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch, with regular episodes hosted by the award-winning composer and performer Hannah Peel, making her Radio 3 presenting debut.

[Jazzrook]

Is "JRR" being moved to Sundays to be "near the exit"? Suspicion rises. Is Saturday afternoon on R3 to be "magaziney" in pursuit of the youthful demographic? Surely Saturday is where JRR has always been and where its expected to be. People of taste and sophistication (me) arrange their weekends around this iconic "institution". Seriously, why not leave well alone. Juggling schedules is a listener disincentive whatever the "bright 2.1 kids" on work experience think.

Next stop, midnight on Sunday?
Is there a 'Dominic Cummings' in control of Radio 3 schedules?

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"BBC Radio 3 (Blue Sky Thinking) deeply regrets that as nobody knows where Jazz Record Requests now is on the schedule, there have been no jazz requests. Therefore we are cancelling the programme forthwith because of a lack of current listener interest. Blue Sky, nothing but Blue Sky..."

[cloughie]

The Beeb fluff:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/r3-aw

Does this make me thrilled and excited - well not a lot - will the M1 feature Hardcore and Heavy Metalling and the musical sounds of road surfaces?