Annoying R3 Trailers

[antongould]

Yet to listen to today’s but yes, me too - my lingering allegiance to Martin H is also under threat from the rising tide of promo sludge

I totally blame the New Controller …. Probably a southerner

[LMcD]

I totally blame the New Controller …. Probably a southerner

Brought up in Milford, Surrey. He's the 8th Controller of BBC Radio 3. Of the previous 7, 7 were men....

[Serial_Apologist]

Brought up in Milford, Surrey. He's the 8th Controller of BBC Radio 3. Of the previous 7, 7 were men....

What gender were the others?

[LMcD]

What gender were the others?

I'll get back to you on that one!

[Kernow Malc]

The rot started with the previous controller. And rot it is.

[LMcD]

Listening to radio 4 in car and they trailed back issues available of the program.

I think the Radio 4 trailers might be read by newsreader and continuity announcer Viji Alles rather than Neil Nunes.

[kernelbogey]

Yet to listen to today’s but yes, me too - my lingering allegiance to Martin H is also under threat from the rising tide of promo sludge

Martin again referred on Sunday morning - jokingly, that he might have time to write a novel after April - to his leaving R3/BBC.... So that just leaves TTN as far as I am concerned.

[Nick Armstrong]

Martin again referred on Sunday morning - jokingly, that he might have time to write a novel after April - to his leaving R3/BBC....

[AuntDaisy]

Martin again referred on Sunday morning - jokingly, that he might have time to write a novel after April - to his leaving R3/BBC.... So that just leaves TTN as far as I am concerned.

Maybe MH's novel will be an exposé of R3 behind-the-scenes? He'll be missed.

Yes, TTN is a life-line, and I'm already missing dear Catriona Young.


Image from Twitter.

[Serial_Apologist]

I have a soft spot for her in that dress!

[Old Grumpy]

Good biog on Aunt Daisy's R3 link too

[french frank]

Good biog on Aunt Daisy's R3 link too

I met Catriona Young

PS She was wearing jeans when I saw her, not that dress.

[Serial_Apologist]

I met Catriona Young

PS She was wearing jeans when I saw her, not that dress.

Ingenious!

[kernelbogey]

One of the particular irritations of the trails is hearing the same infelicities repeated multiple times.

Currently the Private Passions trail, seemingly endlessly repeated, includes a few words from (among others) Chris Addison, who, recalling his father working at the dining room table 'listening very loud to Schubert'. It's an innocent slip in colloquial speech, scarcely noticeable in the context of an interview heard once but an increasing irritant when the clip is shoe-horned for the nth time in between musical pieces. Whoever made the trail was clearly asleep at the wheel, and it's also a disservice to Chris Addison to keep repeating it.

[smittims]

Unfortunately there are people, much beloved by programme -makers, who actually like that sort of thing. There used to be a continuity announcer on ITV who kept forgetting the name of the next programme or the leading person it it, much to our irritation . When I mentioned it to someone at work she said 'Oh, we enjoy that!'. Its a bit like those people who watch formula one racing just to see the crashes.