welcome...

[amateur51]

Hello. I used to be a member of the R3 boards. Just found this place. I had various names.

Welcome back Deckerd!

Can you remind us of some of your previous names please?

[Deckerd]

oof you're asking a hard one there! Cole, I was definitely called Cole at one point.

[french frank]

Can you remind us of some of your previous names please?

I remember deckerd, don't I? Welcome, anyway ...

[amateur51]

oof you're asking a hard one there! Cole, I was definitely called Cole at one point.

Just relax & get stuck in when you're ready, Deckerd

[Deckerd]

I remember you FF!

[bazza76]

I joined today - out of anger - Had to turn off R3!
For the first time for a long time- what was that about 25 minutes ago? Cant find the name in the schedule but it was
so awful I had to turn it off- cacophony of percussion with no discernable direction.

[french frank]

I joined today - out of anger - Had to turn off R3!
For the first time for a long time- what was that about 25 minutes ago? Cant find the name in the schedule but it was
so awful I had to turn it off- cacophony of percussion with no discernable direction.

Morning, bazza76 - and welcome. No sign of a percussion piece in the schedule (not that the schedules are ever comprehensive). Was it at the end of Breakfast or the beginning of Essential Classics (with programme titles like that, I can't believe we're actually referring to Radio 3)?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(with programme titles like that, I can't believe we're actually referring to Radio 3)?

Be careful what you wish for, frenchie: I can see the comment on the newsletter now -

Many of our listeners have expressed dissatisfaction with the title "Essential Classics". As we like to take criticisms from from listeners, we have decided that, from this week onwards, "Breakfast" will be followed by "Morning Coffee Classics".

Time was when such a prospect would've been regarded as a wicked caricature - nowadays, it seems more of a forecast. Mind you, they could call it "Rob's Rucksack" for all I care, if only they had terrific Music presented well. Sadly, I think that they think this is already happening.

[eighthobstruction]

They might take a swipe at the grammar pedants and call it Essentially Essential Classics....

[Serial_Apologist]

They might take a swipe at the grammar pedants and call it Essentially Essential Classics....

It would need to be Essential Sensual Classics for the touchy-feely appeal.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm waiting for the obvious sequel: Inessential Classics (Or perhaps Essential Non-Classics?)

[Embarrassed to report that before writing this I hadn't fully noted the large element of tautology in this prog-title]

[dengar]

I am a new member here but probably heard the first broadcast of the Third Programme (surely a more dignified title than Radio 3) on Sept. 29, 1946. I don’t know how early they appeared, but I recall Stephen Potter’s “How” series, a programme on making an Aeolian harp and a recording of Shaw’s Man and Superman, with Sebastian Shaw as John Tanner. I hitchhiked around France in the summer of 1947 and suffered severe Third Programme deprivation. With no money left for the final three days, my first desire was not for food but to get home and get listening again.

[french frank]

Hello dengar - and welcome :-). A few here go back as far as the Third and I suppose the point is that, regardless of what it was doing, it had a different ethos. Radio 3's job was to sort out the best of old and new. In some cases it seems to have been a bit muddled and thrown out what was good about the old and embraced what is awful about the new

[Serial_Apologist]

I am a new member here but probably heard the first broadcast of the Third Programme (surely a more dignified title than Radio 3) on Sept. 29, 1946. I don’t know how early they appeared, but I recall Stephen Potter’s “How” series, a programme on making an Aeolian harp and a recording of Shaw’s Man and Superman, with Sebastian Shaw as John Tanner. I hitchhiked around France in the summer of 1947 and suffered severe Third Programme deprivation. With no money left for the final three days, my first desire was not for food but to get home and get listening again.

Welcome to the forum, dengar. You will find a wide range of topics to discuss here - not just music, of all "serious" kinds.

I don't remember a Radio 3 series called "How". "How" was the way American Indians used to greet people in the Westerns of my childhood, I now recall. "How!", in a deep and meaningful voice.

[amateur51]

Welcome to the forum, dengar. You will find a wide range of topics to discuss here - not just music, of all "serious" kinds.

I don't remember a Radio 3 series called "How". "How" was the way American Indians used to greet people in the Westerns of my childhood, I now recall. "How!", in a deep and meaningful voice.

How! was also a children TV series of the 1970s with Fred Dinage, Jack Hargreaves et al ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1-aoUNBbE

Welcome dengar!