Radio 3 'Dimension' ???

[ardcarp]

Just seen an advert on BBC2 (after Univ Challenge) featuring some cool graphics plus Britten's YPGO. It said something like 'learn about classical music with Radio 3 Dimension'.

What the **** is that...and where would one find it if so inclined?

[Honoured Guest]

Radio 3 Dimensions is the new name for the Radio 3 classical highlights webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pr5q7

It can be accessed from the Radio 3 homepage. The tagline is "Discover classical music in Radio 3 Dimensions".

[LeMartinPecheur]

Radio 3 Dimensions is the new name for the Radio 3 classical highlights webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pr5q7

It can be accessed from the Radio 3 homepage. The tagline is "Discover classical music in Radio 3 Dimensions".

Well at least it's only 3 dimensions - I seem to recall at one time Deutsche Grammofon was claiming 4

[Thropplenoggin]

Well at least it's only 3 dimensions - I seem to recall at one time Deutsche Grammofon was claiming 4

Time is considered to be the fourth dimension in the space-time continuum.

[Wallace]

Oh dear
Just when you thought it couldn't get much worse, someone at the BBC has an idea to dumb-down even further.

"In the name of populism or 'accessibility' the cretinocracy has all but destroyed a medium which was for thirty or so years an instrument of beneficent cultural diffusion." Meades, J. 2012

[Honoured Guest]

Oh dear
Just when you thought it couldn't get much worse, someone at the BBC has an idea to dumb-down even further.

They've only changed the title of the highlights page, haven't they? No change to the content.

I mean, I take your post seriously even though your forum name references a popular stop motion comedy character.

[amateur51]

I mean, I take your post seriously even though your forum name references a popular stop motion comedy character.

Edgar Wallace was a cartoon character?

[Bryn]

Time is considered to be the fourth dimension in the space-time continuum.

DG's 4th D was a claimed extra to the three "D"s of DDD. They made a big thing of incorporating ADCs into their microphone housings, so the audio was digitised that much earlier in the chain.

[french frank]

Just seen an advert on BBC2 (after Univ Challenge) featuring some cool graphics plus Britten's YPGO. It said something like 'learn about classical music with Radio 3 Dimension'.

What the **** is that...and where would one find it if so inclined?

This will be the latest TV attempt to 'get new audiences into Radio 3', after the the 'Step Into Our World' series across TV and radio in 2009. It looks as if Clemency has taken over from Rob as the 'voice of Radio 3's classical music'.

[DracoM]

Well if it is, they're stupider than even I thought.
What a colossally inept name and concept.

Those guys live inside a totally hermetically sealed bubble of paranoia and ignorance.
Who on earth do they think is going to look there?

[french frank]

I thnk Red Bee's 2009 campaign was very successful in that it was noticed and people remembered it. Not much sign of a big surge in audience numbers, though. That campaign must have been pretty expensive because the 'sound spot' technology was the first time it had been used in a UK advertising campaign.

Well if it is, they're stupider than even I thought.
What a colossally inept name and concept.

Those guys live inside a totally hermetically sealed bubble of paranoia and ignorance.
Who on earth do they think is going to look there?

[Flosshilde]

Edgar Wallace was a cartoon character?

Or William? even more

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Edgar Wallace was a cartoon character?

Up to a point, yes. His half brother, Marriott Edgar, was the writer/composer of many of the Stanley Holloway musical monologues. The lion "Wallace" in The Lion and Albert and The Return of Albert was named after Edgar Wallace.

Bet you didn't know that bit of useless information.

[ardcarp]

Still don't get it...the Radio 3 Dimension thing. If you go to the R3 Homepage (is that the 'Dimension'?) you can click on the trail for....The Dimension. Oh and last week's CotW. Has logic deserted me? Have I got dementia (or dimensia)? Am I just a Hrrmmmphing old dinosaur? Help me someone...

[Honoured Guest]

Still don't get it...the Radio 3 Dimension thing.

It's a simple webpage with clear links to classical highlights content - five current programmes and a few short introductory "discovery" clips. So, no need to get to grips with broadcast schedules, and no danger of switching on at random and encountering something not to your taste.