Prince Philip 1921-2021

[cloughie]

too early if it is - the trial of Gilane Maxwell doesn't begin for a couple of months, assuming she survives prison, and I doubt if he will escape more revelations.

Makes me think of this for some reason.

https://youtu.be/mJag19WoAe0

[LMcD]

There is perhaps a certain irony in people saying how much better yesterday's programming was than the normal Saturday schedule, given that the originally-intended programming for yesterday was very different from "normal" - the Stravinsky day was lost.

Furthermore, whatever one's views on royalty, on the normal R3 Saturday programming or indeed on Stravinsky, do people not find it odd that, as far as I can make out, of all BBC Radio services it was only R3 which chose (or presumably was compelled) to extend its altered programming into Saturday, whereas all other channels resumed their normal service for that day?

Radio 2 certainly wasn't broadcasting its normal schedule yesterday, and Radio 4 Extra was suspended altogether.

[Nick Armstrong]

Radio 4 Extra was suspended altogether.

Today too - or rather, just broadcasting Radio 4...

[cloughie]

Radio 2 certainly wasn't broadcasting its normal schedule yesterday, and Radio 4 Extra was suspended altogether.

Like R3 looking at the playlists on R2 and R3 it seems also much more pleasant fayre was on offer. ie a bit less crash bash and recent stuff, but still no 60s other than a token Beatles ‘Long and winding road’ and ‘In my life’ and Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’.

[LMcD]

Like R3 looking at the playlists on R2 and R3 it seems also much more pleasant fayre was on offer. ie a bit less crash bash and recent stuff, but still no 60s other than a token Beatles ‘Long and winding road’ and ‘In my life’ and Glen Campbell’s ‘Wichita Lineman’.

The BBC has denied that broadcasters are being offered 'grief counselling', which seems cruel - I mean, it's not as though they're highly paid professionals, is it? 'What's that you say - they ARE?'

[Serial_Apologist]

If they have, does/would anyone know what such music was?

Hmm - good point. A shame PMW is no longer here to divulge.

[Serial_Apologist]

That crossed my mind when he was paying his tribute outside No 10 - what a mess!

I was musing on how the notion of 'privilege' can be interpreted. Never having taking much notice of 'the Royals', their upbringing, their marriages, their babies &c, the DoE's early life was something I knew nothing about: grandfather assassinated, family exiled by the military when he was a baby, coming home one day, aged 8, to find his mother had been removed to a psychiatric hospital and hardly seeing her at all for the following years, his father swanning off and leaving his son to be looked after by relatives over in England. Very privileged at every turn, no doubt, but is it the kind of privilege you'd have liked? Apparently, when asked what language he spoke at home, he said, "What home?" Win some, lose some, even with privileges.

Exactly. And yet, to misquote the famous words of one of the Four Yorkshiremen, "You try telling that to the rich and privileged... and they'll never believe you".

[Serial_Apologist]

You have nicely cued up the only musical anecdote about the DOE I know which is that when visiting Britten at Aldeburgh he asked Tony Palmer (then a BBC producer ) “what’s the old man written for us this time ?”. Palmer reported the conversation in an article and then got a letter of complaint from Peter Pears. He later went up to Pears to apologise who said that Ben had just been upset by the use of the word “old”.

Was Britten ever "young"?

[cloughie]

Hmm - good point. A shame PMW is no longer here to divulge.

...and I bet Ted Heath (exPM not Bandleader) was probably the only PM who would have known!

[cloughie]

Was Britten ever "young"?

Well he was the Young in YPG!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm sure I can't be the only individual who was offended at Prince Andrew being given air time on the BBC lunchtime news. Surely the Royal Family could have found someone else to give comment or is this bring seen as an opportunity to begin his public 'rehabilitation?'

Couldn't believe my ears.

[Serial_Apologist]

There is perhaps a certain irony in people saying how much better yesterday's programming was than the normal Saturday schedule, given that the originally-intended programming for yesterday was very different from "normal" - the Stravinsky day was lost.

Furthermore, whatever one's views on royalty, on the normal R3 Saturday programming or indeed on Stravinsky, do people not find it odd that, as far as I can make out, of all BBC Radio services it was only R3 which chose (or presumably was compelled) to extend its altered programming into Saturday, whereas all other channels resumed their normal service for that day?

One thing that is significantly noticeable, on all channels, is the absence of interviewees being constantly interrupted, contradicted and jostled for speedy replies, or being told they have 30 seconds left to solve all the problems of the world.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well he was the Young in YPG!

Er....got it!!!

[LMcD]

...and I bet Ted Heath (exPM not Bandleader) was probably the only PM who would have known!

Kieran Hodgson, today's guest on Private Passions, claims he was told by a member of the LSO that Edward Heath was an absolutely awful conductor and the orchestra just played on while pretending to pay attention to him.

[oddoneout]

Hmm - good point. A shame PMW is no longer here to divulge.

A start here, towards the end https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-for-the-times Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong apparently.
One would assume that the various Masters of the Queen's Music might have some ideas but I imagine that is the kind of information that isn't usually divulged? And several are no longer with us...