FF's comments about R2 have reminded me that many years ago I would listen to Brian Kay's programme of an evening when I was either too tired to cope with "serious" music, or the R3 offering didn't appeal. The tuning dial would stray in that direction on other occasions as well - the occasional burst of brass band for instance, or The Organist Entertains. I don't think my listening experience has been improved by the loss of those programmes as R3 has not provided a replacement.
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To show myself in an even worse light than usual ….. when we prepare the Sunday dinner we listen to Johnny Walker on R2 with Bob Harris currently sitting in …… on his first week the whole system crashed and had to be rebooted with absolutely no mention of CD players even as backup ….Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
Coincidentally on yesterday’s show there was a problem with “the network” and we had a lot of interruptions of fill in music with sound checks that went on for about 10 minutes before Whispering Bob appeared …. all on Sounds…Last edited by antongould; 24-01-23, 18:22.Comment
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Letter in today’s Grauniad
In A World Of Formulaic Stations, BBC Radio 3 Is Fun
In your editorial on Radio 3 (The Guardian view on Radio 3’s new leader: a tough challenge ahead, 22 January), you pose some questions frequently asked about the network, one being whether it should showcase music or include drama too. Anyone who listens to Radio 3 knows that it does. There is a new play or a new production of a classic every Sunday night.
Radio 3 has many other hidden gems. There are outstanding jazz, folk and world music shows on Saturdays and Sundays. Fellow former devotees of The Archers will find a warm and witty welcome in the Radio 3 Mixtape every weeknight at 7pm. Try Radio 3. In a world of formulaic radio, it’s fun.
Gillian Reynolds
LondonComment
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Hmm... reads suspiciously like an in-house job, that.Comment
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Gillian was the Daily Telegraph Radio critic for forty years so I don’t t think so. One of the better media critics I think.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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I had long correspondence with GR a while back. One of her quotes is still on the revolving display on the FoR3 homepage:Originally posted by cloughie View Post
"A constant anxiety across Radio 3's 60 years, expressed in many voices, was what the network was for, what it was supposed to be doing, whether it should be a creator, a pacemaker, a "great aesthetic endeavour", offering "something larger to cling to". That argument persists. These days, I long for something larger to cling to in the way of philosophic and aesthetic discourse."
Gillian Reynolds
She also disputed the fact that Radio 3 "didn't have adverts" when she was giving evidence to the DCMS Charter Review seminar in '200?' - I can't remember the year. But as one sees here, in this very place, memories fade and people become used to what's available
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.Comment
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Who are these terrible people ff …… ??????Originally posted by french frank View Post…….” But as one sees here, in this very place, memories fade and people become used to what's available”Comment
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No names! People who expected a certain amount of intellectual 'stretch' from R3 but who enjoy what they're now getting. But perhaps there aren't any such people?Originally posted by antongould View PostIt 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.Comment
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Becoming used to what's available doesn't necessarily mean the dreams and hopes have disappeared, nor does it mean uncritical acceptance of anything and everything that is currently broadcast.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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No, of course it doesn't. But the difference lies in the individual's reaction: for me, there isn't enough left of what I valued to make Radio 3 a 'radio station': it's just occasional programmes or items which don't make Radio 3 of enough general interest to bother with. I have other interests. I don't want background listening at all: I prefer silence - but that's just me. But my feelings and the feelings of listeners like me were the incentive for setting up FoR3 - and later this forum - 20 odd years ago. It's disheartening to find people are forgetting that, shrugging and putting up with things - or never knew about them in the first place.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIt 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.Comment
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Absolutely, ff!
Do not go gentle into that Good Night.
Rage, rage , against the dying of the light!Comment
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What do we want 'restored' / 'rejected' to the R3 offering to make / continue to make it it essential listening?
e.g. 'Brains Trust'?
Record Review progs that ARGUE the case for AND against recordings rather than merely summarising them?
Leave West End show music to R2
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'The Innocent Ear'.
'Interpretations on record'
'Historic interpretations on record'.
The Christmas Quiz (probably ditched for being 'elitist' in that it required some knowledge of classical music at a time when 'University Challenge' contestants could not distinguish Palestrina from Puccini (and actual example) ) .Comment
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