Ominous interview with Sam Jackson

[Philidor]

He wants more and more non-classical music at the Proms, probably to make it more “relevant” and to justify his hire to clueless BBC bosses. How sad.

[Ein Heldenleben]

This day talking up the Last Night is also likely to become a major annual irritant. The complete lack of any independent critical opinion about the Proms on R3 is just wrong. Literally all Tom Service has done for the last two hours is pat the BBC on the back. And then the staff are bemused when large elements of the public don’t share their enthusiasm…

[LMcD]

This day talking up the Last Night is also likely to become a major annual irritant. The complete lack of any independent critical opinion about the Proms on R3 is just wrong. Literally all Tom Service has done for the last two hours is pat the BBC on the back. And then the staff are bemused when large elements of the public don’t share their enthusiasm…

I guess we're just too stubborn - or too smart - to tamely like what we've been told we'll like. The relentless hyping of the Proms has been a real pain.

[gurnemanz]

This day talking up the Last Night is also likely to become a major annual irritant. The complete lack of any independent critical opinion about the Proms on R3 is just wrong. Literally all Tom Service has done for the last two hours is pat the BBC on the back. And then the staff are bemused when large elements of the public don’t share their enthusiasm…

Thanks for selflessly listening on our behalf to T Service for two hours and confirming what was alas always likely to be the case. I switched on my radio which was still tuned to R3 from last night and he was playing Grieg's ubiquitous Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Not wishing to hear this pleasant but overplayed piece for the 99th time, I immediately migrated to less cliché-ridden pastures.

I shall be avoiding all of today's Last Night foreplay.

[Jazzrook]

I guess we're just too stubborn - or too smart - to tamely like what we've been told we'll like. The relentless hyping of the Proms has been a real pain.

Also a real pain has been the cancellation of Radio 3’s popular Jazz Record Requests no less than 3 times during this year’s Proms.

JR

[Ein Heldenleben]

Thanks for selflessly listening on our behalf to T Service for two hours and confirming what was alas always likely to be the case. I switched on my radio which was still tuned to R3 from last night and he was playing Grieg's ubiquitous Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Not wishing to hear this pleasant but overplayed piece for the 99th time, I immediately migrated to less cliché-ridden pastures.

I shall be avoiding all of today's Last Night foreplay.

My pleasure. Yes. I think posted my opinion on the Wedding . It’s massively overplayed on R3.
I lasted until the handover to Georgia Mann than I just couldn’t stand it anymore . At some point self congratulation becomes an irritant even to those who support the Proms.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I guess we're just too stubborn - or too smart - to tamely like what we've been told we'll like. The relentless hyping of the Proms has been a real pain.

Thing is L did you know that every prom is broadcast live on Radio 3 and is available till October the 14th on BBC Sounds ?

[smittims]

Can we see this 'ominous interview' anywhere?

[Pulcinella]

Can we see this 'ominous interview' anywhere?

I suspect it's on Sounds and might be available until 14 October.

[Ein Heldenleben]

I suspect it's on Sounds and might be available until 14 October.

Don’t…as it’s entirely BBC copyright they could put it on Sounds for ever.

[LMcD]

Thing is L did you know that every prom is broadcast live on Radio 3 and is available till October the 14th on BBC Sounds ?

Rings a bell - somebody may have mentioned it at the Tesco check-out....

[french frank]

Rings a bell

Death knell?

I'm in the middle of cataloguing all the letters I had from Famous People about the decline of R3 c. 2004, prior to depositing them with the British Library's manuscript department. Looking back, 2004 seems like Better Days. The cliché was that the BBC has to cater for ALL licence fee payers (including 'potential licence fee payers' who don't have television sets). R3 and BBC TV long ago ceased to cater for some people.

[LMcD]

Death knell?

I'm in the middle of cataloguing all the letters I had from Famous People about the decline of R3 c. 2004, prior to depositing them with the British Library's manuscript department. Looking back, 2004 seems like Better Days. The cliché was that the BBC has to cater for ALL licence fee payers (including 'potential licence fee payers' who don't have television sets). R3 and BBC TV long ago ceased to cater for some people.

That goes for R2, as well.

[oddoneout]

Rings a bell - somebody may have mentioned it at the Tesco check-out....

"Unidentified item in bagging area"

[french frank]

That goes for R2, as well.

Could you clarify what the BBC fails to provide for a putative R2 listener?