Prince Philip 1921-2021

[LMcD]

The broadcasting overkill this time round feels to have less to do with genuine respect than about fear of censure by the flag-fondling shower who purport to govern us these days

Isn't it also that case that TV news editors feel - or are told - that they must cover every possible aspect of a story ad nauseam just in case a rival learns and broadcasts something they've missed? The BBC currently has one reporter interviewing another outside Windsor Castle.
Overnight figures now out for Friday night viewing: ITV lost 60% of its normal audience, BBC 2 did no better, BBC 1's audience fell 6% and the most popular programme was Channel 4's Gogglebox.

[LMcD]

It certainly is more acceptable than the version that has been in circulation recently which, although it rhymes, is also horribly crude. "Fondlers " conjures up, possibly accurately, something altogether more sinister.
I have been enjoying the music and its presentation today too. I thought Petroc's slot this morning was well done. I know the postponement of BaL will have irritated some, but Saturdays haven't had much if any appeal to me for quite a while now. I'm not an opera person, and what precedes it during the day rarely(sometimes Inside Music) activates the on switch.

Petroc's slot was originally broadcast at teatime yesterday - definitely a case of the right man at the right time.

[Nick Armstrong]

i know it's considered fashionable on these messageboards to sneer, and anyone has the right to do so, but just to put the opposite point of view (and I know some previous posters have also expressed regret about the DoE) I am taken aback by how much his death has affected me, even though I am a royalist so could have expected it. He and the Queen have been there all my life and served this country and the Commonwealth with exceptional loyalty, besides -- not of their own choosing -- providing a soap opera which many families can identify with -- divorces, doomed love, estranged relatives, etc. -- and millions in the UK and around the world respect that and feel the loss.

I'm not in tears but I just feel stunned, can't settle to anything much (not that I've got anything pressing) so really all I'm fit for ATM is watching the TV coverage (up to a point -- I'll admit it's pretty repetitive) or listening to Radio 3. I agree wholeheartedly that the programming is a real improvement over the usual fare. But what I think is a bit unfair about some of the comments on here is that they fail to acknowledge that there are some people out there (like me) who find this programming is a comfort and a solace at a time of great sadness.

That's all!

The current live Evensong from St Paul’s seems also to be a completely appropriate way to mourn and commemorate his remarkable life.

[french frank]

The saturation coverage is the BBC way. The brighter side is that it doesn't happen often and next week everything will be back to normal - which means people will be able to revert to complaining about the BaL format, the Tearjerker-style programmes and awful presenters.

[gradus]

I heard the final 10 minutes or so of the Dresden/Davis Elgar1 and it was everything you could wish for; a gripping beautifully played performance.

[Pulcinella]

I find it very disturbing that there are complaints about the fact that the BBC has made it easy to complain about their coverage!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

[eighthobstruction]

....brilliant mic engineering on Choral ES today....Crossing the Bar....some fantastic male voices ripping out....

[Nick Armstrong]

....brilliant mic engineering on Choral ES today....Crossing the Bar....some fantastic male voices ripping out....

(see latest comments on relevant thread)

[muzzer]

8 days of official mourning seems to me excessive, I wonder if there’s a specific reason for this?

[Petrushka]

8 days of official mourning seems to me excessive, I wonder if there’s a specific reason for this?

I've always considered the period of mourning, whether personal or official, to be between death and after the funeral. In official terms, looking at the precedents of Princess Diana and Winston Churchill, there does not seem to anything unusual about Prince Philip's arrangements..

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning/guidance-for-the-period-of-national-mourning

[Nick Armstrong]

Discussion about Coronavirus moved to the ... Coronavirus thread

[visualnickmos]

Sorry, that comes across to me as a sort, "this man I met in the pub" or "I read in a tweet" about it. If you cannot offer something in the way of provenance for that memory . . . There are plenty of stories on the internet about vaccines supposedly being used to sterilize Africans but there do not appear to be any claiming the DoE advocating mass-sterilization. If he had recommended such, don't you think there might be some reference to it on the Internet? If there is, I have been unable to find it.

How it 'comes across to you' is entirely your affair. If you re-read my comment, you'll see I was stating something I thought I remembered, etc.

[oddoneout]

The saturation coverage is the BBC way. The brighter side is that it doesn't happen often and next week everything will be back to normal - which means people will be able to revert to complaining about the BaL format, the Tearjerker-style programmes and awful presenters.

The schedule page suggests normal R3 service is resumed tomorrow. I might be wrong but I get the feeling that possibly the enforced changes to the R3 schedules haven't all been cause for complaint?

[Ein Heldenleben]

The schedule page suggests normal R3 service is resumed tomorrow. I might be wrong but I get the feeling that possibly the enforced changes to the R3 schedules haven't all been cause for complaint?

You would be correct - with the exceptions of the loss of Record Review and Opera on Three I have preferred it to a normal Saturday .

[Frances_iom]

It is the first Saturday I have left R3 on apart from 2 R4 programs (that from the World service never fails to interest me) - normally I just listen to the 1st 30 mins of Record/CD review and possibly the opera if it's not from the Met - the rest of the day for a non-jazz person is possibly taken up with a couple of R4 programs but if I want music on, which is not always if I have serious brain work to do, I hit my too extensive CD collection.

The biggest pleasure for me has been uninterrupted listening without jarring adverts - though I suspect after a day or so I'd miss the more demanding speech/music programs such as COTW.