Radio 3's website - am I going mad?

[Bryn]

Other retailers are available.

Do tell, which other retailers offer a free Guardian and coffee when one spends £10 in one of their emporia on a Saturday?

[french frank]

Which do you mean by the sidebar? The 'Stations - Categories - Schedules - Favourites' is part of the iPlayer Radio banner right across the top of the screen. This is always present, it seems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

No, as in my earlier Msg 4, I mean the sidebar of this forum where we have thoughtfully placed various useful permanent links to the BBC website, including to the Schedule, for which Bryn posted the identical link.

I was asking whether our Homepage sidebar was open as a default, or whether people had to first open it by clicking the double chevron (thereafter it remains open until it is deliberately closed).

[Don Petter]

No, as in my earlier Msg 4, I mean the sidebar of this forum where we have thoughtfully placed various useful permanent links to the BBC website, including to the Schedule, for which Bryn posted the identical link.

I was asking whether our Homepage sidebar was open as a default, or whether people had to first open it by clicking the double chevron (thereafter it remains open until it is deliberately closed).

Sorry! Being a bit thick there. My sidebar remains closed from day to day, as is my preference. Not sure how to test default - log out and restart? I expect there's a cookie that would still remember. Flush a few caches and things? I'll leave that to some following maven.

[french frank]

Sorry! Being a bit thick there. My sidebar remains closed from day to day, as is my preference. Not sure how to test default - log out and restart? I expect there's a cookie that would still remember. Flush a few caches and things? I'll leave that to some following maven.

No need to do that. As long as you know it's there and are hiding it as a deliberate preference … Since mine is always open (I access the schedule from there and occasionally the blog if I think I'll have a look) I'm not sure whether people know it's there

It's where Andrew's valuable Proms links are too!

[Pulcinella]

I used to access the schedule from this site, but have taken Bryn's advice and have now created a Safari favourite link, on the 'the fewer clicks the better' principle.
I try to tell the BBC how awful their site is whenever I'm asked to complete a survey, to no avail, I fear.
Like others here, I'd rather the focus was on the music than on the celebrity presenter.

[doversoul1]

I keep this weekly schedule in my Favourite:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/this_week

Come to think of it, I don’t ever look at R3’s home page.

[Anastasius]

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I try to tell the BBC how awful their site is whenever I'm asked to complete a survey, to no avail, I fear.
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Ah, you are forgetting the BBC Three Key Rules of Engagement

1 We are always right
2 Pretend to take users views into account as a sop
3 Go back to 1