Old R3 Message Boards from 2005

[Padraig]

Is there any way I can gain access to those old Radio 3 boards now? I'm looking for something I posted after 2005, perhaps 2 or 3 years after. If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

[french frank]

I think they may exist somewhere, but in a form which makes them difficult to access.

These were the BBC boards, but when you click on the links they connect with current BBC News pages .

[eighthobstruction]

delete

[Simon B]

While someone associated with the BBC may have them on a hard disc somewhere, in terms of public access you're going to struggle.

There are spectral fragments floating about on wayback machines though, e.g:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061217190635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620064

It's reassuring that some things don't change (a thread from 16 years ago about the BBC Singers not sounding like a choir!)

Some familiar names there too.

With persistence and some understanding of how a wayback works you may be able to turn up individual threads, but the selection is likely completely random and a tiny fraction of what once existed.

For some more familiar names, try:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061219114511/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/dna/mbradio3/F2620064?thread=3148567

Echoes from a bygone era.

[Padraig]

Thanks in the meantime. Found a few entries - I remember the style and some of the characters, but no luck so far. Anyone for George G, the elusive c, wilf, Ron Dough? And one or two from today's board - is that you Simon? Dave? Surely not the same Bryn?

[burning dog]

Thanks in the meantime. Found a few entries - I remember the style and some of the characters, but no luck so far. Anyone for George G, the elusive c, wilf, Ron Dough? And one or two from today's board - is that you Simon? Dave? Surely not the same Bryn?

It's the same Bryn..

[Petrushka]

It's the same Bryn..

Some memories there! Remember Wilf, who I think lived in Vienna (lucky man!), and the legendary Ron Dough.

[burning dog]

Some memories there! Remember Wilf, who I think lived in Vienna (lucky man!), and the legendary Ron Dough.

Regulars on the jazz forum included Thomas Nashe who used rejected CDs as bird scarers, H Bomb and the legendary King Kennytone and mr. improv

[eighthobstruction]

....fabulous stuff, that page about Shostakovich is fabulous....in fact a joy of repartee and meandering jollity and good fellowship....

[Bryn]

It's the same Bryn..

Except for a brief period when Mr Grew purloined the screen name.

[burning dog]

Except for a brief period when Mr Grew purloined the screen name.

Around 1911?

[Bryn]

Around 1911?

I think you will find that Mr Grew's reference year is 1908.

[burning dog]

I think you will find that Mr Grew's reference year is 1908.

OK

[kernelbogey]

Aaah... Amnesia Lane....

[smittims]

I regretted the BBC's decision to discontinue their own message boards; I felt it was a disservice to their customers. Even the 'Archers' comments page is closed.