Originally posted by Master Jacques
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Why on earth is record review moving
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Saturday afternoon is exactly the time of the week when I don't listen to classical music but go into sport mode. Sam Jackson surely cannot be a sports fan. (Sam Allardyce might have been a better choice for the job). In addition, we frequently go to the theatre at that time, mainly preferring matinee performances nowadays, especially when traipsing off to London. We would often catch BaL whille negotiating the M4.
I could, of course, listen later via Sounds but I tend only to resort to that method for something specific which I particularly don't want to miss.
I don't dislike Tom Service but am not inclined to tune in to a random three-hour shift on the off-chance that there might be something worth hearing. At least the uprooting of Record Review means that I can listen to all of Fighting Talk on Five Live without missing the end of BaL.
From me, alas, it's bye-bye, BaL.
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Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostSaturday afternoon is exactly the time of the week when I don't listen to classical music but go into sport mode. Sam Jackson surely cannot be a sports fan. (Sam Allardyce might have been a better choice for the job). In addition, we frequently go to the theatre at that time, mainly preferring matinee performances nowadays, especially when traipsing off to London. We would often catch BaL whille negotiating the M4.
I could, of course, listen later via Sounds but I tend only to resort to that method for something specific which I particularly don't want to miss.
I don't dislike Tom Service but am not inclined to tune in to a random three-hour shift on the off-chance that there might be something worth hearing. At least the uprooting of Record Review means that I can listen to all of Fighting Talk on Five Live without missing the end of BaL.
From me, alas, it's bye-bye, BaL.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
I am combining BAL with the Quins match on Discovery Plus. It is extraordinarily how Monteverdi really “works”with Quins’ flowing attacking style ..( I hope )
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Some things can be done. When BBC radio removed R3 bandwidth and reallocated it to a daytime looped trail for Radio 5 (the boffins said the difference to R3 was hardly noticeable) I copied the posts from BBC R3 messageboarders and sent them to the director of radio. She accepted the evidence and the trail was dropped (FoR3's one achievement! ). I will see what time I have to construct a similar argument.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.
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Originally posted by Master Jacques View PostNor did Ms Catherwood press my points on the blithely sunny presenter of Hope Café, the offensive programme in question.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
What edition was this ? I’ll have a listen . Proving misrepresentation through editing is difficult unless the broadcaster has for example removed the word “not” from the phrase “ I am not a criminal .” Incidentally it’s much easier to misrepresent on Radio than Tv because in the latter you have to find a fairly irrelevant picture to slap over the audio edit. Some pros at this game will give one thirty second quote on the condition it’s not edited,
I was chased up twice to record a comment, thought long and hard, and recorded a 42' bite for them which was cut to 22', as I knew it would be. I wasn't surprised. They wanted somebody sounding unreasonably churlish about the thing, rather than the balanced critique which (of course!) I offered.
They also downgraded my excellent FLAC sound file, to sound like a landline halfway up Annapurna.
Hope Café is utterly dire radio, by the way: Retune's remark about the presentation style suggesting 1970s children's TV is spot on, and the content is maudlin in the extreme. A real downer to start the week. And an unacknowledged rip off of Alexei Sayle's lovely Imaginary Sandwich Bar, to boot.
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Originally posted by Master Jacques View Post
I was chased up twice to record a comment, thought long and hard, and recorded a 42' bite for them which was cut to 22', as I knew it would be. I wasn't surprised. They wanted somebody sounding unreasonably churlish about the thing, rather than the balanced critique which (of course!) I offered.
They also downgraded my excellent FLAC sound file, to sound like a landline halfway up Annapurna.
Hope Café is utterly dire radio, by the way: Retune's remark about the presentation style suggesting 1970s children's TV is spot on, and the content is maudlin in the extreme. A real downer to start the week. And an unacknowledged rip off of Alexei Sayle's lovely Imaginary Sandwich Bar, to boot.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
I don’t think you come across at all unreasonable or churlish - well made points with some benchmark enunciation. Also the sound isn’t that bad though the entire programme is horribly over compressed. The whole Cafe Hope thing is all very wet and soggy isn’t it? if this is what Radio 4 is like my decision never to listen to it seems amply justified. Did the producer really say her ambition is to open a café ? …what sort of ambition is that ? That is SO radio…no wonder I couldn’t get out fast enough.
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Originally posted by Philidor View PostSaturday mornings are now unlistenable, jumping around all over the place and peppered with tedious interviews. I really miss Record Review with the excellent Andrew Macgregor and I do wonder if even one dedicated R3 listener wanted it shunted to Saturday afternoons, when no one with a life can listen to it. I BEG the new Controller to swallow his pride and move RR back to its traditional time on Saturday morning.
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
That pretty much sums up my feelings about what was not a very challenging interview. I always think that people who use the word 'absolutely' as often as he seemed to are still trying to convince themselves of their own beliefs while trying to explain them to others.
I've done an analysis of each of his points. There's a touching naivety about his exulting over the listener who wrote in to say "I'm a first time listener to Radio 3. Thank you so much for rescuing Friday Night Is Music Night." Quod erat faciendum, my dear.Thank you.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.
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