is infecting Radio 3 too....

says Paul Donovan

Thanks mf,

Well in my early days of listening to Radio 3 I was never familiar with the names of the announcer/presenters and indeed I only really got to know names when I began reading/posting at R3MB about 4/5 years ago.

With Radio 2 it was a bit different, I always knew I was listening to Humph, Alan Dell, Alan Keith, Richard Baker, Sheridan Morley, Brian Matthew but their shows had titles Best of Jazz, Dance Band Days, Your 100 Best tunes, Melodies For You, Sounds of the Sixties and I always liked to refer to the SHOW.

The R2 schedule is personality-oriented now and I feel the schedule/shows have lost much of their identity, look at
today on R2 according to the webpage

07:00  Aled Jones
09:05  Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs
11:00  Fiona Bruce
13:00  Elaine Paige on Sunday
14:30  Pick of the Pops
16:30  Johnnie Walker
18:30  Alan Titchmarsh
20:30  Sunday Half Hour
21:00  Russell Davies
22:00  Malcolm Laycock
23:00  The David Jacobs Collection
00:00  Janice Long
03:00  Alex Lester

and presumably that's how Radio Times list the shows?

Just thinking, Russell Davies was probably the first to just have his name, I can't remember a name for his show (mainly featuring jazz and broadway songwriters).

Looking at the R3 week schedule webpage there's not many names, Iain Burnside and Mary Ann Kennedy, but only Martin Handley's and Sara's names are made more prominent on the day schedules
e.g.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/schedule/2008/03/02/day/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/schedule/2008/03/03/day/

Surely one doesn't exclude the other? 

Ron,

Clearly you are unaware of how often complete works of Igor's are featured in the evening schedule at CFM

Wednesday 5th March includes

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major  
Thomas Zehetmair Violin/Dir
Northern Sinfonia

What, not even THE RAKE'S PROGRESS or OEDIPUS REX, Ollie?  My word, I won't take being teased about Bruckner so easily in future

One of my early performing experiences was doing the Stravinsky Mass, which, with a madrigal touch to the choral stuff and deft rather than sqwawky wind playing (we gave it our best shot) is a key to the
unity of the Igor schtick methinks. Just the thing for 'Sunday Half-Hour'.

The cult of ego is inevitable for Radio 2, being as it is trying to compete with a myriad Magic FMs, Heart FMs etc. where the output is largely the same so only the presenter becomes a strong differential.  A niche station like Radio 3 (and Radio 4 while we're here) requires this less.  Classic FM uses "big name" presenters to make Classical Music more radio-friendly, hence the Bates, Mellors and Gambaccinis of this world, none of whom I'd particularly rate as Classical aficionados.

She does at least seem to have a genuine interest in classical music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Krestovnikoff, her own website also mentions directing a chamber choir for a number of yeras.  She did seem surprisingly hesitant at times though, despite her previous TV experience.