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  • amateur51

    Originally posted by Deckerd View Post
    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?

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    • Deckerd

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

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30509

        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Can you remind us of some of your previous names please?
        I remember deckerd, don't I? Welcome, anyway ...
        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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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by Deckerd View Post
          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

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          • Deckerd

            I remember you FF!

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            • 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.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30509

                Originally posted by bazza76 View Post
                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)?
                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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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  (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.
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • eighthobstruction
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 6449

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

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37851

                      Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                      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.

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                      • LeMartinPecheur
                        Full Member
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 4717

                        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]
                        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                        • 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.

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30509

                            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
                            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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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37851

                              Originally posted by dengar View Post
                              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.

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                              • amateur51

                                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                                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 ...

                                A rare clip from Southern Television's 'How' from the 1970's starring Jack Hargreaves putting a ship in a bottle & Fred Dinage cracking up on the potter's wh...


                                Welcome dengar!

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