How very dare he!

[Richard Tarleton]

Radio 3 Defence Society, anyone?

More like a board meeting of FOREST - just looking at the photo makes me cough. RVW is smoking his pipe in his ear, though.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

More like a board meeting of FOREST - just looking at the photo makes me cough. RVW is smoking his pipe in his ear, though.

- EXACTLY the two reactions I had, RT! (And it looks as if the great man has previously attempted to stick it in his eye, too! )

[Pulcinella]

Indeed - and which composer wants his/her work to be at best half-listened to in beteween the chatter bouts that make up the remainder of such programmes?

Fair comment, but what I found (when still in gainful employment) was that after a day of meetings the last thing I wanted was more chatter: give me just the music any day please. Memory (perhaps lapsed!) recalls Homeward Bound having much less chat in it.

[Richard Tarleton]

Fair comment, but what I found (when still in gainful employment) was that after a day of meetings the last thing I wanted was more chatter: give me just the music any day please. Memory (perhaps lapsed!) recalls Homeward Bound having much less chat in it.

I think the predecessor of In Tune was Mainly for Pleasure? There, Natalie Wheen assumed the mantle of the genial, slightly raffish host subsequently assumed by SR. The interviews (chats) with performers tend to be the most interesting part of the programme (IMV), and the parts I stop and listen to properly.

[Pulcinella]

The interviews (chats) with performers tend to be the most interesting part of the programme (IMV), and the parts I stop and listen to properly.

Again, fair comment, and one that shows that poor old (70yo) Radio 3 will never satisfy all of us all of the time or probably even most of us at the same time.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think the predecessor of In Tune was Mainly for Pleasure?

I thyink that this is right - but that before MfP there was Homeward Bound, which consisted of a stream of Music uninterrupted by any speech at all, the "items" featured announced only at the end of the programme.

Personally, I was always annoyed by the fact that there would regularly be pieces that I didn't know, but which I couldn't discover more about because I couldn't listen until the very end.

But better even that than the chatterfest that In Tune offers.

[vinteuil]

Personally, I was always annoyed by the fact that there would regularly be pieces that I didn't know, but which I couldn't discover more about because I couldn't listen until the very end.
:

... " pieces that I didn't know "

How can this be? This is our own ferneyhiccough writing. Shurely shome mishtake???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... " pieces that I didn't know "
How can this be? This is our own ferneyhiccough writing. Shurely shome mishtake???

I was very much younger at the time.

[Nick Armstrong]

- EXACTLY the two reactions I had, RT! (And it looks as if the great man has previously attempted to stick it in his eye, too! )

[Frances_iom]

.. There, Natalie Wheen assumed the mantle of the genial, slightly raffish host subsequently assumed by SR..

I recall that she was but one of the presenters from a group of 5 or so - and didn't it switch between the regions on a daily basis - anyway in those years I listened to it but I'm afraid SR is yet another switch off for me - much too much chatter - maybe if there was one good interview per programme it may be better but needs a different person and to be honest possibly some pre-recording as not all musicians are coherent or even fluent in English when interviewed

[Serial_Apologist]

- EXACTLY the two reactions I had, RT! (And it looks as if the great man has previously attempted to stick it in his eye, too! )

I think that must be an ear trumpet. (But you are joking, aren't you???)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think that must be an ear trumpet. (But you are joking, aren't you???)

Yes.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes.

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes.

so was I

[Serial_Apologist]