That damn' Eye

[french frank]

Have the phone-ins now gone? Time to crack open the Easter eggs early if so.....

I was given to understand that by someone inside Radio 3 asking whether I'd noticed 'there is no longer a phone call on breakfast'.

The listener survey we did reported:

"On-air interactivity:

The response that was closest to unanimity from all respondents related to on-air ‘interactivity’ – tweets, texts, phone-ins, quizzes; requests were rather more tolerable but were preferred in a separate request programme [...] It is impossible to overstate how much the use of ‘interactivity’ as on-air content is disliked and causes listeners to switch off or give up permanently on programmes."

Many years ago, when FoR3 started, a very eminent radio critic told us: 'Don't try and tell the BBC how to run their services.' So ignoring that completely (vox populi, vox dei), we recommended that all on-air interactivity be dropped, with, if thought useful, a request programme being reinstated, rather than having constant references to 'requests' throughout the morning.

But at least there was only one phone-in per day, so the war is not yet won.

[MrGongGong]

I think there must be something wrong with the bit-rate, it sounds so bad. Ah...I see the date it was posted!! Very good.

It's one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years matey

Perfect for "Relaxing Classics at 7" or other such guff-fest

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

serious.relaxed
hot.cold
raw.cooked
what larks for the anthropologists eh ...

[vinteuil]

serious.relaxed
hot.cold
raw.cooked
what larks for the anthropologists eh ...

... I wd suggest the antonym for "serious" is "frivolous, trifling" rather than "relaxed".

In them olden days when I was wont to visit record shops there often seemed to be a section flagged up as "Easy Listening".

I regularly asked whether there was a "Difficult Listening" section - 'cos that was what I was looking for...

[MrGongGong]

.

I regularly asked whether there was a "Difficult Listening" section - 'cos that was what I was looking for...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ok.not ok
easy.difficult
serious.relaxed
hot.cold
raw.cooked
naked.clothed
secondarymodern.grammarschool
bricollage.engineering
R3asMythEnvyoftheWorld.thetrickquestionthismorning
intermediation.irresolution

[Serial_Apologist]

Just because light and dark are mutually interdependent
Does not make it advisable to stare unblinkingly at the sun.
Life is fleas on a hot griddle

- Zen saying (as I remember it)

[vinteuil]

... it was verismissimo of this paroisse only t'other day who was quoting RLS -

"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."

[Old Grumpy]

... I wd suggest the antonym for "serious" is "frivolous, trifling" rather than "relaxed".

In them olden days when I was wont to visit record shops there often seemed to be a section flagged up as "Easy Listening".

I regularly asked whether there was a "Difficult Listening" section - 'cos that was what I was looking for...

I remember listening to one of Humph's jazz programmes on Radio 2 when he questioned the concept of "smooth jazz". He then proceded to play what he considered to be an example of rough jazz.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

one's not half two
it's two are halves of one

[Old Grumpy]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Gongers, you do have a bee in your bonnet...

What? Only one?

Don't forget the rest of the hive.

[MrGongGong]

What? Only one?

Don't forget the rest of the hive.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]