Broadly, What Parts of Radio are Still Quality?

[Serial_Apologist]

My own take is that though auditory processing is one of the last facilities to lose during terminal sickness being part of the 'old brain' any visual processing, being an extension of the brain, dominates our perception of the world even when this perception is conveyed via a small tv screen - thus you are able to suspend disbelief in the artificiality of tv drama (and by extension that of news broadcasts even tho edited to be partisan) whereas audition allows our mind to consider various possible causes (and in FF's case past experience in the studio) whilst listening.
I have a similar reaction but in reverse - I can happily listen to a broadcast of an opera I've seen as I can replay some of the missing visual details whereas I don't enjoy a previously unseen opera to the same extent

Yes, I'm sure this is an even better explanation.

[greenilex]

Multi-tasking with iPad and radio is interesting. Do people find that the visual text wins over the auditory?

But photos etc always distract effectively...

[Lat-Literal]

Multi-tasking with iPad and radio is interesting. Do people find that the visual text wins over the auditory?

But photos etc always distract effectively...

Yes - and very, very good.

But keeping a car on the road wins over the car radio.

So are we to assume that the process of driving is more about an application to visual text where strangely there is no text?

That is, when without question there is via the windscreen a lot of (moving) "photo"?

[Serial_Apologist]

Multi-tasking with iPad and radio is interesting. Do people find that the visual text wins over the auditory?



But photos etc always distract effectively...

"In sitting, just sit; in standing, just stand; but above all, don't wobble", they apparently say in Zen Buddhism. All this multi-tasking is ******* people's heads up, if you ask me.

[Lat-Literal]

According to a (pacifist) friend of mine who is the father of a 13 year old boy, x box games on i-pod involve sound. They sign up with their mates and hear each others' voices on shoot 'em ups or can audibly overturn the computer football referee. This, the friend said, is likely to lead to considerable opinion being expressed about any application of the rules when his son ventures into a real football stadium. I suggested that more significantly it was wonderful preparation for the employment jungle. I do look forward to the day when forums involve sound. People speak about having lost the ability to write now that everything is typed. But I am struck by how voices these days are silent, literally, and having to be physically conveyed with the hands and shoulders. In earlier times, people actually spoke, listened or wondered so technology has systemically altered the natural way. Anyhow:

BBC Radio 3 - Through The Night

[cloughie]

Hmm. Each to their own. All three of those programmes have me leaping for the "off" switch when I hear them start. The first two seem to me to be about 40 years past their "sell by" date.

Radio 4 Extra is grossly inferior to its predecessor Radio 7 - too many repeats of the bits of current Radio 4 that I try to avoid. Radio 7 (repeats of classic comedy and drama) had a much clearer identity and a much higher proportion of quality programmes.

Maybe I'm 40 years past my sell by date and why I still like them!

[ardcarp]

'In Our Time' WAS good until Melvyn Bragg decided that the experts were a bit of a nuisance and began to intrude more and more, interrupting, re-stating at length what had already been said, and rudely shutting people up. Great shame.

I still enjoy it...mostly. Bragg is better with scientific topics, because he knows so little (he admits it) and allows the experts to do their stuff. BUT have you noticed that MUSIC is almost never on the menu?

[Lat-Literal]

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Record Requests
BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week
BBC Radio 3 - Early Music Late
BBC Radio 3 - World on 3/Late Junction

[DracoM]

And oddly, I love the last half hour 6.30 p.m.- 7 p.m. of R2!!
Simon Mayo has a terrific little team who clearly like each other and get on well, and it is full of little bits of info, traffic, humour, news and conducted at a really good pace.

A refuge from the appalling 6.30-7 'comedy' slot on R4?

[jean]

... have you noticed that MUSIC is almost never on the menu?

Yes I have - he knows so little about that, it doesn't exist!

Front Row (which I mostly enjoy) has more classical music items since Mark Lawson left.

[jean]

A refuge from the appalling 6.30-7 'comedy' slot on R4?

If you think it's always appalling, you're missing some good stuff. John Finnemore's Double Acts occupied that very slot.

[Lat-Literal]

If you think it's always appalling, you're missing some good stuff. John Finnemore's Double Acts occupied that very slot.

Ah, comedy, yes.

Radio 4E - News free service that in being so is essential to national security : certainly more so than any Government - Content variable but a very big yes to Hancock's Half Hour, Dad's Army and Round The Horne, preferably to be broadcast there weekly forever. Not against the Goons but they do need working on and with whenever the mind feels up to it.

R4 Actual - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Just a Minute depending on the guests, Count Arthur Strong, Milton Jones, Tom Wrigglesworth, Dead Ringers but I did prefer Week Ending.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A refuge from the appalling 6.30-7 'comedy' slot on R4?

It can be somewhat crass. 2 such programmes per week would be more than sufficient. But at least there's something good on Radio 3 at this time.

[BBMmk2]

Saturday morning, CD Review, evening concerts and words and music(when I remember to listen!), the opera schedules on saturday evening.

[cloughie]

It can be somewhat crass. 2 such programmes per week would be more than sufficient. But at least there's something good on Radio 3 at this time.

Maybe the BBC spends too much time and money on bad comedians and comedy and not enough on good musicians and music.