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Antheil
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« on: 20:09:01, 23-01-2008 »
BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast Choral Evensong live on Wednesdays at 4.00pm from mid-September 2008, with a repeat on Sunday afternoon.

It is currently relayed live on Sundays at 4.00pm.

Roger Wright, Controller, Radio 3, said: "We are pleased to be able to include two broadcasts of Choral Evensong from September.

"Scheduling it on Sundays has brought new listeners to the live broadcasts, though others have missed it on Wednesday afternoons.

"Airing it live on Wednesday and repeating it on Sunday will offer audiences a choice for this ever-popular part of the Radio 3 schedule."

Hurrah says I, CE, being alone in the office on a Wednesday, was my Oasis of  Calm, and I see Ash Wednesday is coming from Snorbans.

George??  Are you there?  Will you be there?  Easter Sunday from Winchester Cathedral (IGI?) and from St Paul's Outside the Walls, Rome, on 6 April.

As to ower Roge, does it mean he has listened to the feedback?  Huh
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Morticia
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« Reply #1 on: 20:26:42, 23-01-2008 »
Well, I say. Does this mean that dear old Wodge has realised that moving it from Wednesday wasn`t such a bright idea after all? And now he`s giving us two!  Wow, what a guy! I am not going to say "Emperors New Clothes. I`m not. No really! Well, maybe I`ll just mutter it. A bit.

That aside, this is great news. Wednesday  afternoon at 4 o`clock has just been all wrong since Aunty axed CE.
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« Reply #2 on: 20:41:35, 23-01-2008 »
Well, good old Roger! I think that's rather a good solution all round. Thanks Antheil for that news. (Or should we complain about more ruddy repeats? No, a small huzzah!)

I knew about the Ash Wednesday broadcast but thought it was just a one off because you can't really disguise Ash Wednesday as anything much other than... a Wednesday.

Quote from: Antheil the Termite Lover on 20:09:01, 23-01-2008
I see Ash Wednesday is coming from Snorbans.

George??  Are you there?  Will you be there?

Yes, I'm here and hope to be there. It'll be the Girls Choir plus Lay Clerks this time.
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Antheil
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« Reply #3 on: 20:43:34, 23-01-2008 »
Quote from: Morticia on 20:26:42, 23-01-2008
That aside, this is great news. Wednesday  afternoon at 4 o`clock has just been all wrong since Aunty axed CE.

Indeed, and  Sister Jasmine Cannelloni is on Cloud 9
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« Reply #4 on: 20:50:03, 23-01-2008 »
George, sorry if I sounded like a curmudgeonly old bat. Indeed, let`s have a small huzzah!  No, let`s have a BIG one!

HUZZAH!
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« Reply #5 on: 21:26:59, 23-01-2008 »
Oh, I think a small to middling sized HUZZAH is about my limit, Mort. Cool 

And as for bats, of whatever degree of curmudgeonliness(?) or otherwise, I hadn't actually read your post when I sent mine so it wasn't in any way meant as a comment on it.  Kiss Kiss Kiss 

As always, when I got one of those "There have been two new posts since you started tapping yours out painfully slowly with one finger..." messages coming up, I just carry blithely carried on in my own way and pressed the send button anyway.
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« Reply #6 on: 21:37:00, 23-01-2008 »
Quote from: Antheil the Termite Lover on 20:09:01, 23-01-2008
Easter Sunday from Winchester Cathedral (IGI?)

Very possibly, Anna.  Smiley

I'm glad that RW seems to have seen sense on this one and the change seems a sensible compromise. I'm not a regular listener to CE, but do occasionally listen in on a Sunday afternoon. I could never listen on Wednesdays as it's when our staff meetings take place, but I appreciate the return to its traditional place in the schedules.

I wonder if RW has any plans to re-introduce regular live concerts in the evenings?

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« Reply #7 on: 21:49:04, 23-01-2008 »
I love CE, but I wonder too, live concerts?  Never!  Do you think this is a move to going back to how R3 was?

<flying piggie emoticom>
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« Reply #8 on: 22:12:35, 23-01-2008 »
Funnily enough I have mixed views about Choral Evensong per se (I was at Westminster Abbey yesterday.)  But this is Good News.  I said at the time of the move to Sundays it was making CE out to be an upmarket Songs of Praise.  Doing it on Wednesdays puts it back in its liturgical context.
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« Reply #9 on: 12:22:14, 24-01-2008 »
Great Stuff!  Can we have Brian Kay's Light Programme back at 4pm on Thursdays also?

Ian.
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« Reply #10 on: 14:39:57, 24-01-2008 »
And Burnside back with Voices? And Rob Cowan on at an hour when I can listen to music?
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« Reply #11 on: 12:03:27, 21-02-2008 »
Marvellous news - delighted to hear this, even if most of the time I listen to this at work through the BBC iPlayer, there's still something strangely comforting in knowing that it's going out live again on a Wednesday afternoon, and with Chichester Cathedral just 5 mins walk from my office, it means I could slip out of work early for a quiet hour of contemplation when R3's CE occasionally passes this way! Thanks Rog!
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« Reply #12 on: 22:26:26, 20-07-2008 »
Well, noting the BBC Outside Broadcast vans outside Eton College Chapel this morning, I used every opportunity I could to encourage those in my temporary charge to tune in to hear what the chapel sounds like, and not just look at it from outside. Then, on the last run, I found I had two who were joining me precisely to travel to attend Choral Evensong at the chapel in order to hear and support the grand daughter of one of them, who was attending the choral course. My surprise at the encounter was matched only by theirs at learning that they would be able to listen to it via the new iPlayer for the next 7 days. Now I suppose I really ought to listen to it too. Wink
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