That attitude will get him precisely nowhere if this poltroon is handed The Proms. His hopeless attitude to programming, hatred of contemporary music, and his woefully inadequate interpersonal skills mark him out as one of the worst people who might take the helm there

Is it apt that Mr Wright puts in such a performance on Feedback on the same day that he presides over six hours and forty five minutes of the crummiest programming of the year ( from 1400 to 2045 ) ?

Ok, I'll own up. I haven't actually heard any of those programmes but the descriptions of them do not appeal at all and there seems to have been zero interest about any of them on this board or at the other place. The Verb and Jazz Library look good though !

I thought exactly the same when I was listening to Feedback this afternoon, John. Dear old Roger is "praising" the alternative message boards, but there is no link to these boards on the Radio 3 website. That means that people who don't know that these boards exist, will never find them. I would like it very much to welcome new visitors to the Radio 3 website also to this MB, but with the way the Radio 3 website is now moderated, it isn't impossible, I'm afraid.

DonB.  I agree with you about the character of some of the new posters in the "other place".  They are, of course, not "all like that", but enough are unpleasant for me to feel a little suspicious of motives.
Cheers

As this message board is listed among the external links on the Wikipedia entry for BBC Radio 3, interested listeners will find it anyway, I think.

I suspect this topic may have run its course, but there are things going on tv that reflect the current notions of
value in public service/ neo public\service stuff. Two quotes from yesterday and today's Evening Standard (fact
not opinion)
1) Jeni Barnett has been fronting a wildly succesful, entertaining and informative food prog on something called
UK TV Food in which the BBC I think has a stake. Victor Lewis-Smith reports that its so good that its cancelled from next week. Jenny joshes with a guest who mentions that only cockroaches would survive in a nuclear attack, and
evolve more quickly after it, that they'd '...Turn into TV executives' (adminsitering as it were the cultural wasteland they'd brought about)
2) Phillip Glenister of the current cop show Life on Mars '...We turn(an episode) in one time and on budget and they say this proves we can do it for less... the TV industry is run by fools'.

In radio terms, Smooth FM(and several other stations) have changed their format against the evidence of their
own viewing figures, presumably chasing the heavy hitters among potential advertisers. This has nothing to
do with a Music policy-there survives a ragbag which with luck will have some production integrity, but its not
being encouraged.

With screwy irony its as if  the commercial wisdom were emulating what the BBC does to middle england when it
scraps or degrades a popular programme, or maybe the one sector chases thge other in descdending spiral?

In about 1935 in an essay in The New Outline of Modern Knowledge (ed Pryce-Jones)  a senior BBC figure called
Harman Grisewood discoursed very presciently on the dangers of ignoring a distinction between "homo faber"
and a neophyte creature calling itself " homo media"

I'm off the soapbox now, but the dysfunctional rambling of the EFL students downstairs is imho an affliction brought about by  bad, and badly up itself bits of media taken to be some kind of cultural standard.

It's just occured to me that I might be doing a passable impersonation of Syd aka Easter Island
- but I'm sure he'd thunder more eloquently.