I listen to in Tune ocasionally. Sometimes there is something interesting beeing said or discussed.
I listened on Tuesday with Tarik O'Regan beeing interviewed from New York studio, Berio folk songs played and some pop music which was faded away. I do think that he has very special kind of way of talking. I think it is kind of whisping or hissing. I always think that people have kind of very personal prononciation when they talk like that. But who am I to say.

I don't hear any Radio 3 here and only can listen to it on the net.

Scott,

Can an Essex boy not distinguish an Irish and Scots accent 

I take it also that you found the music uninspiring 

John W

Have to agree with DS though that one of the pleasures of this board has been the absence of rants against individual presenters and possible lapses of pronunciation. Not saying I love all the presenters by any means but those types of threads add nothing to the feel of a board.

Donbasilio, I don't think Rafferty sounds like people here. I think people in North Ireland (Belfast) have a different accent than here.
You can call me that name, but no one knows it here. How do you know my name? I think I gave it away already.
I don't mind.
People here has a different droll to their speach, It has its charm, I like it. People from Cork are difficult to understand, otherwise I can not complain. Everybody sound good to me as long as I can understand them (and vice versa).
I like your posts, they are interesting and informative.

Not only that, but the city of Belfast has more separately identifiable accents than any other in the UK - over 20 IIRC.

Up here in Warks the frequency is 90.5. Driving around and it becomes 90.3 and the the reception quality does drift.

Scott, maybe try and adjust your tuner.

John W

Hello everyone,

Driving home work from work earlier today, I caught the last 10 minutes of "Afternoon on 3". I enjoyed what I heard and it was quite relaxing. I heard a very well spoken gentleman read the 5 O'clock news (he sounded remarkably like Richard Baker), then Sean Rafferty came on playing a lovely piano piece. I only heard a couple of minutes of it because I had completed my journey by then.

Again, the reception started to crackle and buzz. I wonder whether it has anything to do with mobile phone transmitters? There are plenty of them darted along the A13 (my main route to and from work). There are also a few in my area, too. It seems odd that only on certain parts of the A13 and my hometown the Radio 3 reception is quite poor. I occasionally get the same problem with Radio 2 but it's quite rare.

I have tried fine tuning the Radio 3 frequency on my car radio (it's 91.3 FM in my area). My car radio re-tunes to the next frequency should I enter another radius. For example, when driving, national FM radio frequencies differ, so my radio will re-tune to the nearest one. It doesn't re-tune itself when driving from my hometown of Thurrock to my workplace in Basildon, which tells me that 91.3 FM is the Radio 3 frequency for this radius.

The problem is, though, the lower FM band between 87.5 and 94.5 FM where I live is often plagued with annoying pirate radio stations coming from Essex and London and they do interfere with Radios 2 and 3. Classic FM on 100.8 FM also has the same problem with pirate radio stations, as do the local London and south Essex stations.

I can only presume that mobile phone transmitters could be the main cause of the poor Radio 3 reception where I live.