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[johncorrigan]

should anyone have coffee with The Controller, please mention that i have no objection to 'through the night' content whatsoever. but (for the umpteenth time) can the theme tune be separated by some speaking .......or something, anything.... perhaps pips?? the theme comes crashing in after most of my favourite jazz, world etc programmes - it's completely unfair on both programmes either side of the twilight zone schedule rules about time itself.

I concur completely with hsf on this one - twee, annoying and completely out of place - do somethin' about it for the next blog Rog! It's definitely un!!!

[Paul Sherratt]

Trouble is that it's all done on autopilot.

http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4ead3d34eab8ea5507000047/autopilot.jpg

[handsomefortune]

Trouble is that it's all done on autopilot.
http://static8.businessinsider.com/i.../autopilot.jpg

has The Controller never heard of a fade ...?

yes, maybe 'through the night' is a bit too twee jc? but which theme tune could represent the variety that follows? why doesn't the presenter just start speaking instead? squeezed together too close, the overlap can sounds really bonkers.

logically, a fade would gain a second to the 'dizzy rush' of 12.am. those hoping to fade out to the land of nod, after r3 world, or jazz music might well appreciate a change too.

a Servant could fade 'through the night' theme in, with a couple of clicks of the mouse on the master copy. who do you have to contact? her majesty the queen!

it's always a pleasant surprise that the presenter sounds so calm and composed, considering the intro of 'through the night'.... who to expect after that start to a programme - ?

on the totally unrelated subject of the weekly web 'dart board of jazz/world schedule', another groan (imv) is fiona talkington's web pic is imo from the absolute blast that web designers and other beeb Servants must have had, when they adopted an imo really unpleasant habit of using photographs of presenters quite close up, and then displaying their faces BIG on the web page schedule. here's an example: contrast talkington/sharp, (and perhaps clare martin pic) and you'll perhaps see what i mean about the shift in scale. i get the impression that verity's apparently 'away on holiday'....but fiona has a pic from a while back, when BIG was in, and (presumably) there was no choice.!! though i admit i am am a bit over sensitive like this. as a result, i'd rather not see them at all, just hear their selections! r4 'woman's hour' once had a series of (imo) 'offensive web page pics', for a while. they made me laugh/cry....not least as the pics implied that space is apparently that short, that web schedule pics of headless women were deemed 'necessary'! as though jenny m or jane g might be about to interview/discuss headless guests, (though as 'wh' presenters, they were at least pictured whole).

[johncorrigan]

maybe 'through the night' is a bit too twee jc? but which theme tune could represent the variety that follows?

I was thinking this, handsome. Some nice co-presenters possible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFk4b6yeX4

[Paul Sherratt]

handsome, now you have reminded me about dear Lopa's latest image ... what were they thinking, ahem, cough.
Oilrig if she spots this bit of thread may possibly offer some suggestion.
Or maybe not.



That picture :

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/corporate/images/width/live/p0/0y/tf/p00ytf1g.jpg/608

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Brick and pointing experts will no doubt be able to pinpoint the precise location of the 'shoot'

Prizes offered for creative and/or accurate suggestions.

[Paul Sherratt]

>>>which theme tune could represent the variety that follows?

Maybe some rarely heard Kristofferson ?

"Take the ribbon from your hair,
Shake it loose and let it fall,
Layin' soft upon my skin.
Like the shadows on the wall.

Come and lay down by my side
'till the early morning light
All I'm takin' is your time.
Help me make it, 'Through The Night'

[handsomefortune]

krist-oo - that's barry white fgs

well i was avoiding lopa's pic. at least lopa IS definitely somewhere, which is good/better imo. erm, perhaps everyone needs a brickwall sometimes, (as long as you don't bang your head against it)? it provides an environment, a context of sorts.

just ....anything's better than 'large in a sterile void' surely?

i think verity's pic is taken near to a zara store, somewhere in paris, she's having a go on a revolving merry go round in the sunshine.

mak gets off lightly imo, pic-wise, as does dr lucy.

sandy toxvig's been through the web fashion mill picture-wise for instance.

none of which truelly reflects programme content really, as one pic can't really.... any more than one theme tune can.

i've got that 'mermaid' song lined up, from tue lj. and here's a mermaid's bra i made earlier

'a heart that can shed its skin' - yeuch!
(a line from tues lj set).

[johncorrigan]

Brick and pointing experts will no doubt be able to pinpoint the precise location of the 'shoot'

Prizes offered for creative and/or accurate suggestions.

I think Humpty thought it was through the round window, Paul.

But I thought it was snapped at the R3 works outing to the local paintballing outfit, just as Sean Rafferty was catching Lopa with a doozie using the old 'Look Lopa! it's the Goodyear Blimp!' routine.

[Globaltruth]

Hmm, I detect a preoccupation - is it healthy I wonder? And why has no-one mentioned Max's pix?

Anyway, on with the music..........eventually

[johncorrigan]

Hmm, I detect a preoccupation - is it healthy I wonder? And why has no-one mentioned Max's pix?

May I draw my honourable friend's attention to the following!

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?600-The-return-of-Waxy-Maxy&p=199036#post199036

[Globaltruth]

Yodelling alert tonight on LJ & you know how we love a yodel-lay-o

Fiona Talkington's eclectic musical mix includes Alpine yodelling, vintage German electronica, a Transylvanian lament and a sonata for microtonal piano.

They never drop that eclect*c word do they...for years we've been telling them

[Lateralthinking1]

Yodelling alert tonight on LJ & you know how we love a yodel-lay-o



They never drop that eclect*c word do they...for years we've been telling them

They probably thought it was just a musette.

Is Anderson related to Ian Anderson by any chance?

She can't be his wife because that would mean she would be called Anderson Anderson.

[johncorrigan]

you know how we love a yodel-lay-o

....and a daft hat....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU

[Paul Sherratt]

Will anyone be scoring the programme ?
You know important and meaningful league tables are nowadays.

[Globaltruth]

I'm giving the segue from the Latvian ethnomusicologists to the next track a definite 9.