R4 problems

[AuntDaisy]

Radio 4 is currently having broadcasting problems - probably due to overloading of SOUNDS adverts!
They've put on the "Why Factor: T-Shirts" to cover for Today.

If R3 had similar issues, what would you replace its programmes with (& which ones)?

I'd re-run the first "The Early Music Show" programmes from 2003. Or replace TearJerker with Through the Night.

Update: Martha Kearney & Nick Robinson are back. Alarm over.

[AuntDaisy]

I enjoyed Petroc T's tweet - R3 to the rescue.

https://twitter.com/PetrocTrelawny/status/1465228573749485570

[french frank]

Radio 4 is currently having broadcasting problems - probably due to overloading of SOUNDS adverts!
They've put on the "Why Factor: T-Shirts" to cover for Today.

If R3 had similar issues, what would you replace its programmes with (& which ones)?

Very much aware that tastes vary, and that some people just want Radio 3 to play non-stop classical music all day. I'd ditch Essential Classics and for the first hour bring back the old Artist of the Week interview (the problem being that R3 doesn't really have now any 'specialist interviewers' of the kind needed for a searching interview). Then two hours of CD Masters and - job done. Into CotW.

For the evening Disaster Zone, two or three full length pieces of music, with minimal, Shea-like, interjections now and then. I'd be happy to give Breakfast and In Tune a complete miss.

[kernelbogey]

TTN on continuous replays of recent 6hr programmes.

[oddoneout]

TTN on continuous replays of recent 6hr programmes.

"TTN: the missing tapes" Trouble is the way things are these days any mention of TTN repeats and missing bits would trigger back to back dumbtime... for the benefit of all those unenlightened and diminished souls who haven't discovered the magic of Sounds (is that where they are once they've been outed on R3?)

[AuntDaisy]

Very much aware that tastes vary, and that some people just want Radio 3 to play non-stop classical music all day. I'd ditch Essential Classics and for the first hour bring back the old Artist of the Week interview (the problem being that R3 doesn't really have now any 'specialist interviewers' of the kind needed for a searching interview). Then two hours of CD Masters and - job done. Into CotW.

For the evening Disaster Zone, two or three full length pieces of music, with minimal, Shea-like, interjections now and then. I'd be happy to give Breakfast and In Tune a complete miss.

Yes please! And kernelbogey's TTN. I like oddoneout's "TTN: the missing tapes". Warning taken re. "back to back dumbtime"!

The Grauniad had an article on it within minutes (although I think it was ~20mins not 30).

The BBC’s flagship morning news programme, Radio 4’s Today, was taken off air for nearly 30 minutes on Monday after an alarm interrupted the broadcast.
Towards the end of the 7.30am news bulletin, as the newsreader was delivering a piece on a memorial for a police officer, listeners heard “attention please, please leave the building immediately, please leave the building immediately by the nearest exit”.
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