In Tune: Dead

[Nick Armstrong]

Facebook update highlights the passing of this programme to the other side:

Alfie Boe is ready and waiting by the piano to perform on tonight's In Tune, from 4:30pm.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/bbcradio3

[Anna]

Just clicking on that link to FB I see, two items down under pic of Sean Fafferty, a Breakfast producer (Jeremy E.) has appeared wearing a smiley. Well, perhaps finally there is some interactivity? Maybe all the FBers here should try and engage him in reasoned discussion?

[ahinton]

Facebook update highlights the passing of this programme to the other side:

Alfie Boe is ready and waiting by the piano to perform on tonight's In Tune, from 4:30pm.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/bbcradio3

I'd rather listen to an o boe any day.

[amateur51]

I'd rather listen to an o boe any day.

I'd rather play a pink oboe, me. myself [with apols to Peter Cook dec'd]

[Mr Pee]

I'd rather listen to an o boe any day.

Don't give up the day job......

[Nick Armstrong]

I'd rather play a pink oboe, me. myself [with apols to Peter Cook dec'd]

Run out of aubergines then, ammy???

[amateur51]

Run out of aubergines then, ammy???

Just don't tell Mandryka that PC is dec'd or he'll have a conniption fit

[french frank]

Alfie was tweeting early this morning that he was on the prog and the kissy fans have been gathering ... I have seen the future and ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Just don't tell Mandryka that PC is dec'd or he'll have a conniption fit

[Nick Armstrong]

Alfie was tweeting ...and the kissy fans have been gathering ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Just clicking on that link to FB I see, two items down under pic of Sean Fafferty, a Breakfast producer (Jeremy E.) has appeared wearing a smiley. Well, perhaps finally there is some interactivity? Maybe all the FBers here should try and engage him in reasoned discussion?

I see someone has put the question to him about the "rationale" behind 'Breakfast'

[Anna]

I see someone has put the question to him about the "rationale" behind 'Breakfast'

Well Duckie, it's rumoured that you speak French, so why not pile in there?

[pilamenon]

Did anyone else hear the duet of Song to the Siren with Robert Plant from his new album "Alfie" (named after his son ). Good to be reminded of that classic song, but I was hoping to hear Plant let rip. He (Alfie) has an okay-ish voice.

[french frank]

I see someone has put the question to him about the "rationale" behind 'Breakfast'

He has returned to say he can add nothing to what Graeme has already said. I posted a bit of that earlier, but I think this is the bit that pertains to Breakfast (I have inserted a paragraph break to make for ease of reading):


"If hypothetically, R3 decides that for only 2.5 hours over a 24-hour period it is going to broadcast generally well-known pieces of classical music, which might have the effect of enabling new listeners to come into the station and share the joy of classical music, as welll as entertaining existing listeners at a time of day when perhaps there are distractions which might make the programming of, say, Bruckner symphonies not, perhaps, the kind of music to which listeners could devote the necessary serious attention, comparing this 2.5 hour period with the rest of the schedule (as I have cordially invited you to do), might not such a policy be a valid response to the fact that, like it or not, classical music in our society is on the radar of fewer people than those of us who love classical music would wish? [A sentence of Proustian proportion: Ed]

I am at a total loss to understand why people would not wish classical music to be more widely known - popular, even - and for R3 to use its schedule and its profile to pursue that aim? Why would Radio 3's 'core audience' - which you so often invoke, although like all of us here you are of course only representing yourself - not wish to encourage the network to do its bit to appeal to the widest possible constituency? We'd all like an entirely personal radio station (in my own case Radio 3's 'A Bach Christmas', along with Frasier on TV, could be on a permanent loop!!) - and I've pointed out that new technology in effect makes this possible - but that could hardly be an acceptable remit for a national radio station funded by national licence payers, could it? bws Graeme"



Of course, the really interesting thing would be to leave the music entirely on one side and ask them to explain the rationale behind the packaging

[Norfolk Born]

I don't suppose Alfie was asked 'what's it all about'?