Brainwashing

[greenilex]

All this eyewash seems to have seeped into mine....

[ahinton]

I seem to have less and less of it to wash these days anyway; I think it's down either to the recession that some anti-Brexiteers warned would be a consequence of an out vote, to government cutbacks or possibly both...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'll have to put mine on "Delicates".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The BBC seem to make no distinction between the R3 audience and all other BBC platform audiences.
I suppose R3 listeners might be assumed to know a bit more and thus resent being 'brainwashed', smacked in the ear by Proms trails that nearly have me throwing my radio out of the window hourly / daily.

The way we're talked down to, I can only assume the intended audience is the Kindergarten.

[french frank]

The way we're talked down to, I can only assume the intended audience is the Kindergarten.

I have suggested that the best 'trail' for the Proms was probably the Lucy Crowe folksong at the end of Newsnight last week with the RAH in the background. Now available on YouTube, courtesy of BBC Newsnight.

[kernelbogey]

The BBC seem to make no distinction between the R3 audience and all other BBC platform audiences [....]

It's branding, innit?

Except, someone with a rather limited idea of marketing (or budget, maybe too) doesn't realise that markets are segmented.

As in:

The BBC seem to make no distinction between the R3 audience and all other BBC platform audiences[...] R3 listeners might be assumed to know a bit more ....

Is it beyond the wit of man/woman to devise different ads to run on R3 - even different am and pm - from those on other networks?

Write out 100 times 'I must not patronise Radio Three listeners'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's branding, innit?

Well - the effect on me is akin to someone pressing a red hot iron against my skin, so yes!

[Frances_iom]

The BBC seem to make no distinction between the R3 audience and all other BBC platform audiences.
...

why should they - Wright kept his job and entertainment allowance by getting rid of most of the knowledgeable listeners - presumably in the name of social equality - why should they have special treatment from the rest of the hoi polloi.

[HighlandDougie]

I have suggested that the best 'trail' for the Proms was probably the Lucy Crowe folksong at the end of Newsnight last week with the RAH in the background. Now available on YouTube, courtesy of BBC Newsnight.

Thank you for that, FF. Link at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOS_nPLCrtA

Not sure that I don't prefer someone like she-who-should-be Dame Shirley Collins (if there was any justice in the world) but good to hear Lucy Crowe gie it laldy

[Richard Tarleton]

Thank you for that, FF. Link at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOS_nPLCrtA

Not sure that I don't prefer someone like she-who-should-be Dame Shirley Collins (if there was any justice in the world) but good to hear Lucy Crowe gie it laldy

A lovely rendition of a haunting and enigmatic song - which has, with its different versions, combinations of verses, etc., prompted a fair bit of discussion - I think Lucy sings a slightly shortened version here...

https://knifeandforkfactory.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/she-moves-through-the-fair-meaning-and-interpretation-part-1/

http://www.irishmusicdaily.com/she-moved-through-the-fair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Moved_Through_the_Fair

My perfect version would be Irish, but which? - here's John McCormack, with upside-down picture

[oddoneout]

Well - the effect on me is akin to someone pressing a red hot iron against my skin, so yes!

So it's trailblazing? aka aversion therapy.

[french frank]

Not sure that I don't prefer someone like she-who-should-be Dame Shirley Collins (if there was any justice in the world) but good to hear Lucy Crowe gie it laldy

Though the point was that Lucy Crowe had recently appeared at the Proms, and her version was therefore (with the RAH backdrop) a Proms 'trail'. Not sure the Should-Be Dame has yet appeared there.

[johncorrigan]

Not quite brainwashing, though I do wonder, but this was a pretty darn good bit of mind boggling from the Beeb at the Edinburgh Festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045yfc3

[french frank]

Not quite brainwashing, though I do wonder, but this was a pretty darn good bit of mind boggling from the Beeb at the Edinburgh Festival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045yfc3

Very polished. IMHO, of course :-) If he hadn't turned it upside down at the end, I might have wondered. But great entertainment. And brain-washing, of course.

[Daniel]

I washed mine last night and now I can't do a thing with it.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?