That all pervasive Night Tracks trail complete with breathy voiceover that’s just been on again wins the award for most counter productive promo of the year.
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It would seem someone at the Beeb is really keen on the M&S adverts and has been able to indulge/push their liking, as it's been used as a technique for other programme adverts.Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostComment
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There used to be some with what I thought of as the "Cadbury's Milk Tray" voice. I for one have a built-in resistance to this kind of blatant marketing.Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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You won't be old enough to remember this one from the 1950s:Originally posted by french frank View Post
"You'll look a little lovelier each day
With fabulous pink Camay".Comment
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... but cf a nice obituary in The Times last week for Rosemary Squires [1928-2023], queen of the jingles, whose wholesome singing of -Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
“Now hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid”, recorded in 1960 ,was still being played forty years later...
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Aaah " the matching is unique at A G Meake"..... Ed: which I am amazed still have an outlet in Cardiff....but not a utube clip....https://stdavidscardiff.com/shops/g-meekOriginally posted by vinteuil View Postbong chingComment
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I remember on the old bbc message boards once posting that i had seen an advert for classic fm on the side of a london bus but never seen an advert for radio 3. I like to think that seed of an observation resulted in trails on bbc tv and radio,
yes, its all my fault
oh dearie me
Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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A "revised" version of which is currently showing, this time featuring an oddly expressionless father washing those judicious dishes with his equally oddly expressionless small son commenting in that same cutesome way.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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I remember seeing Rosemary Squires on TV in the '60s, in variety shows. Many comedy programmes had a 'musical interlude' where a lady in a long tight dress known in those days as an 'evening gown' crooned a slow love song, sometimes with two or three young men in black tie prancing round her . Older viewers will recall Joan Regan and Alma Cogan in such apppearances. I didn't now R-Sq. had done adverts as well.Comment
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In tune just played a lovely trail for afternoon concert.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Another trailer for afternoon concert on sunday breakfast today and a mention of jazz record requests.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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I thought the trail for Hamlet Noir sufficiently intriguing to want to hear the broadcast - but forgot (forgetting a lot these days). I thought the trailer well done, and hearing it this morning for the second time usefully reminded me of my intention; and having read the full blurb on the R3 page, even more so. Perhaps it will become annoying on third or fourth hearing....
Anybody heard the drama itself?Comment
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I happened to be fiddling with my “Hifi” prior to playing an off air minidisc of, as it happens, Drama on 3 and it was on then. I heard the name Hamlet mentioned which puzzled me enough to check the blurb. Then I returned to my recording of Schnitzler’s Dr Bernhardi.Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
It may have been excellent but on the whole I’m not keen on R3’s mania for rewriting the classics so was prejudiced.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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That's one of my major gripes - the first couple of times are OK, but constant repetition of an irritation, particularly given the thoughtless placement of the adverts in relation to the music they collide with, makes it even more of an irritation and intrusion. If someone's already decided to listen then constant reminders become nagging, which is never a constructive exercise in my opinion.Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
That you have now been alerted to something you wish to hear and might otherwise have missed is good, and "they" will take it as justification for the exercise, but I would question whether the irritation factor for a great many people in relation to the number of listeners possibly garnered is equitable, or a good strategy. I for one miss chunks of daytime broadcast output due to not cancelling the mute button after such intrusions. There have been times, for instance when the grunting shouting blitz campaign was running(summer sport) when I just didn't feel inclined to even start listening, so the radio stays off for the benefit of my blood pressure and general mood.Comment
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I’m not a big fan or rewrites of the English classics but …Originally posted by french frank View Post
Isn’t Hamlet itself the ultimate rewrite? - possibly of an earlier Ur-Hamlet by Kyd or more likely Shakespeare himself ? Not to mention the many literary sources Shakespeare drew on. There’s no settled text - the published editions are a mix of the First Folio and a couple of The Quartos if I remember aright . Even now he that plays the Hamlet often struggle to remember the lines - most notably Albert Finney. When you’re reading a critical edition there are so many variants you often start to ask yourself what play am I reading?
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