New World Music show for Radio 3?

[johncorrigan]

I just heard Cerys Matthews mention a new World Music programme starting on Radio 3 in the coming months...anybody heard anything else about it?

[Lat-Literal]

I just heard Cerys Matthews mention a new World Music programme starting on Radio 3 in the coming months...anybody heard anything else about it?

Um, no.

[johncorrigan]

Um, no.

She seemed to be suggesting that she might have some kind of input, Lat...I'd have thought she's be too busy with the forthcoming R2 Blues Programme That she's fronting, but what do I know.*

* Answer: nowt!

[Lat-Literal]

She seemed to be suggesting that she might have some kind of input, Lat...I'd have thought she's be too busy with the forthcoming R2 Blues Programme That she's fronting, but what do I know.*

* Answer: nowt!

Was it linked to this, JC, about which I was strangely unaware?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvp5d

I've heard her doing music documentaries on R4.

Sometimes I miss key happenings, especially if I haven't tuned in to a show for a while.

I only recently realised that Bob Harris had been reduced on R2 getting on for a year ago so that now he just has the country show.

[johncorrigan]

Was it linked to this, JC, about which I was strangely unaware?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvp5d

I've heard her doing music documentaries on R4.

Sometimes I miss key happenings, especially if I haven't tuned in to a show for a while.

I only recently realised that Bob Harris had been reduced on R2 getting on for a year ago so that now he just has the country show.

I don't think so, Lat. I knew about this programme with Selda Bağcan coming on - she has a monthly show on the World Service where she interviews somebody about their life in music. Recently a real cracker with Georgie Fame, but she's had Baaba Maal, Van, among others.

No, she played the excellent Main Hoon Jhoom Jhumroo by Kishore Kumar right at the beginning of her 6 Music show this morning and then said it was one of her picks for a forthcoming new R3 World Music programme and we'd hear more about it in the next while. More than that I do not know.

[Lat-Literal]

I don't think so, Lat. I knew about this programme with Selda Bağcan coming on - she has a monthly show on the World Service where she interviews somebody about their life in music. Recently a real cracker with Georgie Fame, but she's had Baaba Maal, Van, among others.

No, she played the excellent Main Hoon Jhoom Jhumroo by Kishore Kumar right at the beginning of her 6 Music show this morning and then said it was one of her picks for a forthcoming new R3 World Music programme and we'd hear more about it in the next while. More than that I do not know.

Ah, Kishore Kumar.

.......I think I'm going to have to check this out!

(It's all, I guess, kinda timely in view of the recent discussion about Georgia).

[johncorrigan]

Ah, Kishore Kumar.

.......I think I'm going to have to check this out!

Bit of yodelling, Bollywood style, Lat!

[Globaltruth]

Well I've just had a quick look at the BBC Media Centre, the latest ref. to r3 and World Music is them announcing the WOMAD line up for 2016.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/search?lang=en&term=world+music&search=Search

Wonder if they're pensioning off Wo3....

[Lat-Literal]

Well I've just had a quick look at the BBC Media Centre, the latest ref. to r3 and World Music is them announcing the WOMAD line up for 2016.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/search?lang=en&term=world+music&search=Search

Wonder if they're pensioning off Wo3....

I don't know, GT........it's all very confusing.

[Globaltruth]

Well here’s some clarity from r3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/r3-schedules

Yes, the big change is they’re renaming Wo3.

Music Plant - dedicated to roots music.


Oh, what’s that you say?
Music PLANET

All very edgy. Marvellous.

[johncorrigan]

Well here’s some clarity from r3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/r3-schedules

Yes, the big change is they’re renaming Wo3.

Music Plant - dedicated to roots music.


Oh, what’s that you say?
Music PLANET

All very edgy. Marvellous.

Thanks GT. Cerys just said she's on the first programme with KT on April 6. She just played Eliades Ochoa who's the guest on the first programme.

[Lat-Literal]

Well here’s some clarity from r3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/r3-schedules

Yes, the big change is they’re renaming Wo3.

Music Plant - dedicated to roots music.


Oh, what’s that you say?
Music PLANET

All very edgy. Marvellous.

I'd only just finished running my machine on the BBC's favourite words during the last 12 months. This was invented to address and assess every word spoken across the BBC network.

Now where is it? Ah yes, "so", "gloom", "knife", "terminal", "Brexit", "illness", "gender", "pay", "abuse", "gap", "obesity", "doom", "beast", "Trump", "violence". a swear word beginning with f, "gun", "Jong-Un", "terrorism", "east"......."planet". "Planet". Wow. There it is. "Planet". No 45 in the BBC Zeitgeist Top 100. If it wasn't for the fact that "Music Planet" had already been the title of an R3 programme accompanying "Human Planet" in 2011, it would all be crystal clear and entirely apt.

There is no news yet of the rebranding of the BBC World Service. The one in which fairness will be maintained by ensuring Joe Boyd, Mark Coles and anyone else who happens to have been born male will not be included in any of its programmes. In fact, I hear on the grapevine that it will continue on just as it has always done with the same presenters and the same content. However, it will also be radically different by being renamed "BBC Radio Planet". Planet could be No 22 next year.

Elsewhere, Jumoke Fashola. Yes, I do know her. A good local radio presenter who could happily be promoted to a permanent slot on R2 especially if it decided to re-introduce religious broadcasting. "After Dark" - that was the one when Channel 4 could be interesting, isn't it. Oliver Reed storming off drunk in hour eight of the show, just before Zig, Zag and Evans's "The Big Breakfast 2525". Now, though, that I have actually read the raison d'etre etc, I think they have nicked the idea from me. That sort of flagging up of other parts of the station's content and broad events beyond Planet R3 was what I had proposed on this forum. That was just a month ago. The only difference is I had scheduled it for 9am-10am weekdays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuND6haVOo

[cloughie]

Was it linked to this, JC, about which I was strangely unaware?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvp5d

I've heard her doing music documentaries on R4.

Sometimes I miss key happenings, especially if I haven't tuned in to a show for a while.

I only recently realised that Bob Harris had been reduced on R2 getting on for a year ago so that now he just has the country show.

He was probably playing too much music that appeals to over sixties.

[Globaltruth]

I'd only just finished running my machine on the BBC's favourite words during the last 12 months. This was invented to address and assess every word spoken across the BBC network.

Now where is it? Ah yes, "so", "gloom", "knife", "terminal", "Brexit", "illness", "gender", "pay", "abuse", "gap", "obesity", "doom", "beast", "Trump", "violence". a swear word beginning with f, "gun", "Jong-Un", "terrorism", "east"......."planet". "Planet". Wow. There it is. "Planet". No 45 in the BBC Zeitgeist Top 100. If it wasn't for the fact that "Music Planet" had already been the title of an R3 programme accompanying "Human Planet" in 2011, it would all be crystal clear and entirely apt.

There is no news yet of the rebranding of the BBC World Service. The one in which fairness will be maintained by ensuring Joe Boyd, Mark Coles and anyone else who happens to have been born male will not be included in any of its programmes. In fact, I hear on the grapevine that it will continue on just as it has always done with the same presenters and the same content. However, it will also be radically different by being renamed "BBC Radio Planet". Planet could be No 22 next year.

Elsewhere, Jumoke Fashola. Yes, I do know her. A good local radio presenter who could happily be promoted to a permanent slot on R2 especially if it decided to re-introduce religious broadcasting. "After Dark" - that was the one when Channel 4 could be interesting, isn't it. Oliver Reed storming off drunk in hour eight of the show, just before Zig, Zag and Evans's "The Big Breakfast 2525". Now, though, that I have actually read the raison d'etre etc, I think they have nicked the idea from me. That sort of flagging up of other parts of the station's content and broad events beyond Planet R3 was what I had proposed on this forum. That was just a month ago. The only difference is I had scheduled it for 9am-10am weekdays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuND6haVOo

Lat - we all know you should have your own show. As Sir Allan Davey is clearly a regular reader here maybe he’ll give you a break. If so, I’d like a slot playing vintage roots. Just 3 or 4 hours daily should be fine.

Anyway given the huge change should we have a referendum on whether to change the name of this quiet corner I wonder? From ‘World’ to ‘Roots’, not routes obv - look what happened to Dr Lucy.

Simple yes, no or maybe.
(PS listening figures will go up by 350million if we do change I’m reliably told )

[Lat-Literal]

Lat - we all know you should have your own show. As Sir Allan Davey is clearly a regular reader here maybe he’ll give you a break. If so, I’d like a slot playing vintage roots. Just 3 or 4 hours daily should be fine.

Anyway given the huge change should we have a referendum on whether to change the name of this quiet corner I wonder? From ‘World’ to ‘Roots’, not routes obv - look what happened to Dr Lucy.

Simple yes, no or maybe.
(PS listening figures will go up by 350million if we do change I’m reliably told )

Hello GT.

I would like World and Roots if it didn't spell War. I am not against Roots but why would we change it other to include vintage roots? So as to enable the folk and celtic and reggae to sit more easily alongside all the nostalgic country and western ballads you only occasionally adore? It's up to you but, as heavily implied elsewhere, the flag needs to be true and not false.

Yes - my show is overdue. I have the voice for it if not inclined to use many words. I could do with making my posts on this forum a bit longer really. Television was always ruled out on the grounds that the facial mannerisms were only designed for comedy. But anyhow long gone are the days when I thought I'd be turning up at Womad and introduced by a beaming Paul Sherratt to Andy Kershaw. In fact, long gone are the days when Andy Kershaw did music or you could even get a free ticket to a Brosseau gig in someone's posh house in Cornwall.

Still, you would be my regular weekly guest if it ever occurred. I'd pick the subject - Corsican a capella, people called Vladimir, painting the bathroom etc - and you would be doing all the inventive stuff of finding the records that fit. Please don't take offence but before you so kindly asked, I was going to approach Robin Denselow. However, he seems to have become part-time or half-hearted if the number of his reviews in The Guardian are anything to go by. Perhaps he is mostly on Twitter now reflecting wistfully on Britain and the European Union.