View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
|
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject: YHBT - Last one Sunday |
|
|
Let's give RB a good send-off. I doubt that Lesley D has organised a leaving party so thanks to Richard for his efforts since Alan Keith passed on. It's a real shame that this institution will soon be consigned to history. _________________ MiS |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: YHBT - Last one Sunday |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | Let's give RB a good send-off. I doubt that Lesley D has organised a leaving party so thanks to Richard for his efforts since Alan Keith passed on. It's a real shame that this institution will soon be consigned to history. |
_________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
|
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: YHBT - Last one Sunday |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | Let's give RB a good send-off. I doubt that Lesley D has organised a leaving party so thanks to Richard for his efforts since Alan Keith passed on. It's a real shame that this institution will soon be consigned to history. |
I'll drink to that. Why is it the shows I come to late end up disappearing?
YHBT has been going, what, forty odd years? I came to appreciate it in about 2003 and now gorn!
Same happened with Alan Dell's Sounds Easy and Gerald Harper.
Maybe I'm jinxed! I should start listening regularly to Mo Dutta and Steve Wright perhaps?!?! _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
Lady B, if you promise that by listening to Mo and SW they will be removed - go ahead!!
I believe YHBT started in 1959, so it's lasted 48 years. I wonder how long it will be, given current form, before Russell Davies will be replaced by the other R2 Russell??
Alan Dell /Sounds Easy takes me back to my growing up days, what a marvellous voice he had. Gerald Harper reminds me of Sunday mornings doing homework, listening to "My Sunday Affair" on Capital all those years ago - we loved that show. _________________ MiS |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | Lady B, if you promise that by listening to Mo and SW they will be removed - go ahead!!
I believe YHBT started in 1959, so it's lasted 48 years. I wonder how long it will be, given current form, before Russell Davies will be replaced by the other R2 Russell??
Alan Dell /Sounds Easy takes me back to my growing up days, what a marvellous voice he had. Gerald Harper reminds me of Sunday mornings doing homework, listening to "My Sunday Affair" on Capital all those years ago - we loved that show. |
On a hot, sticky summer Sunday afternoon there was nothing more apt on the radio than Alan Dell's Sounds Easy for soothing the savage breast.
Gerald of course is still with us, though tragically this dreadful ageism that exists in the media now prevents anyone giving him a similar, and I'll wager, highly popular Sunday outlet.
Always thought Capital Gold missed a trick there. Ho-hum. _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
You're right about ageism...can it be long before David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington are forced off R2? By the way, how old is Lesley Douglas? _________________ MiS |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | Lady B, if you promise that by listening to Mo and SW they will be removed - go ahead!!
I believe YHBT started in 1959, so it's lasted 48 years. I wonder how long it will be, given current form, before Russell Davies will be replaced by the other R2 Russell??
Alan Dell /Sounds Easy takes me back to my growing up days, what a marvellous voice he had. Gerald Harper reminds me of Sunday mornings doing homework, listening to "My Sunday Affair" on Capital all those years ago - we loved that show. |
Can he be persuaded to start listening to Evans, Ross & Brand too! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
Old enough to know better? _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
|
Back to top |
|
|
MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
It would seem that she is not, BGW!
Still, her tenure must be coming to an end, how long has it been now? They don't tend to stick around for long! _________________ MiS |
|
Back to top |
|
|
howard66
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 43
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | It would seem that she is not, BGW!
Still, her tenure must be coming to an end, how long has it been now? They don't tend to stick around for long! |
How can we be sure that her successor won't be as bad?
Alan Dell; sadly missed - one of the greatest broadcasters ever. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Let's give RB a good send-off. I doubt that Lesley D has organised a leaving party so thanks to Richard for his efforts since Alan Keith passed on. It's a real shame that this institution will soon be consigned to history.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The BBC haven't exactly bent over backwards to publicise this or lend it the significance that it deserves. There's only a very oblique reference to it in the article re Alan Titchmarsh at the start of the radio pages of the Radio Times.
Ian. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Tis incredible that one of the longest running shows on British radio can disappear so unceremoniously! They haven't even allowed Baker to say on air that it's going!! I'm sure there are many loyal listeners for whom RB's sign off for the last time on Sunday is gonna come as a huge surprise! _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew...
Last edited by Lady Boil De Spudswell on Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:43 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
iwarburton wrote: |
The BBC haven't exactly bent over backwards to publicise this or lend it the significance that it deserves. There's only a very oblique reference to it in the article re Alan Titchmarsh at the start of the radio pages of the Radio Times.
Ian. |
Although it's not exactly my cup of tea, I did listen to some of it last week (references to Annitsford and Tynemouth, Ian), and plan to listen to some at least of the last one.
As someone without a vested interest in the programme, I'm still pretty disheartened at the way firmly established and well-loved favourites seem to be disposable items at the whim of ratings or a new broom in management. There's room for all genres at R2 and I don't begrudge the current Sunday or mid-week early evening output at all. _________________ Author: To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | They haven't even allowed Baker to say on air that it's going!! I'm sure there are many loyal listeners for whom RB's sign off for the last time on Sunday is gonna come as a huge surprise! |
Well I'm hoping he does say bye on the last show. I mentioned in another thread that he had been doing a rundown of the top 10 from the last poll, last week he played 7, 6 and 5 so I'm hoping that he was allowed to plan this and the last show will feature the Top 4 and have a farewell from Baker.
During recent exchanges with the Beeb I had a mail from Tony Brown but it was just virtually a cut'n'paste of the press release plus a note saying "In the meantime Radio 2 is in discussion with Richard Baker about future programme ideas".
That is hardly encouraging because if she hadn't finished discussing with Baker by now it's a bit late now, and he and Lesley might not agree. Maybe he'll do the odd docu CFM-Suchet style but to be honest Baker is 80 now and I expect Lesley would prefer Suchet at a photo shoot
John W |
|
Back to top |
|
|
MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It's obvious that Radio 2 care not one jot for the feelings of listeners who have been loyal for years - they just want to grab the younger audience by fair means or foul, hence Evans, Brand, O'Leary etc.
And I am by no means old, CONSIDERABLY less than 50!! _________________ MiS |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
|
|
John W wrote: |
During recent exchanges with the Beeb I had a mail from Tony Brown but it was just virtually a cut'n'paste of the press release plus a note saying "In the meantime Radio 2 is in discussion with Richard Baker about future programme ideas".
John W |
Does he still do the New Years Day Vienna concert for TV? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
|
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
MadeinSurrey wrote: | It's obvious that Radio 2 care not one jot for the feelings of listeners who have been loyal for years - they just want to grab the younger audience by fair means or foul, hence Evans, Brand, O'Leary etc.
And I am by no means old, CONSIDERABLY less than 50!! |
Ditto!!!!
Again, it's this ridiculous 'old programmes, old presenters, old music, have no appeal to a younger audience' mentality.
If that were the case, doesn't that presuppose all R3 and Classic FM listeners must be about two or three hundred years old?!
Reclaim those half-hours back from Titchmarsh and Winton and re-instate YHBT! There really was no need to axe it. It's not as if it's been replaced with something evolutionary! Merely its airtime carelessly cut and pasted elsewhere in the schedule. _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:02 am Post subject: |
|
|
And give Stuart Maconie back the half hour that was savagely cut from his Saturday show less than a year after he was given that show. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
|
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Although it's not exactly my cup of tea, I did listen to some of it last week (references to Annitsford and Tynemouth, Ian), and plan to listen to some at least of the last one.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That would have been connected with Owen Brannigan.
Do call in if you're ever in Prudhoe. I don't think I'm allowed to put my address on the site but as a long-time resident I'm sure you'd find someone who could direct you to me--and I'm so modest with it!
Ian. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
iwarburton wrote: |
That would have been connected with Owen Brannigan.
|
That's him - forgot the name but I'm glad you knew.
iwarburton wrote: |
Do call in if you're ever in Prudhoe. I don't think I'm allowed to put my address on the site but as a long-time resident I'm sure you'd find someone who could direct you to me--and I'm so modest with it!
Ian. |
Sounds almost as if you live in Prudhoe Castle, Ian! Thanks for the invitation - I just may take you up on it sometime this year. _________________ Author: To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
John W wrote: | Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote: | They haven't even allowed Baker to say on air that it's going!! I'm sure there are many loyal listeners for whom RB's sign off for the last time on Sunday is gonna come as a huge surprise! |
Well I'm hoping he does say bye on the last show. I mentioned in another thread that he had been doing a rundown of the top 10 from the last poll, last week he played 7, 6 and 5 so I'm hoping that he was allowed to plan this and the last show will feature the Top 4 and have a farewell from Baker.
During recent exchanges with the Beeb I had a mail from Tony Brown but it was just virtually a cut'n'paste of the press release plus a note saying "In the meantime Radio 2 is in discussion with Richard Baker about future programme ideas".
That is hardly encouraging because if she hadn't finished discussing with Baker by now it's a bit late now, and he and Lesley might not agree. Maybe he'll do the odd docu CFM-Suchet style but to be honest Baker is 80 now and I expect Lesley would prefer Suchet at a photo shoot
John W |
Do you think he will still do some editions of Friday Night Is Music Night? This is one of the lighter music shows that I do like to listen to some weeks. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: |
|
|
from The Sunday Times January 21, 2007
Radio Waves: Paul Donovan: End game
Your Hundred Best Tunes ends tonight. Long before Classic FM was even dreamt of, it was busy popularising Bizets Pearl Fishers, Pachelbels Canon and Verdis Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. But Radio 2s bosses if not all its listeners now regard it as past its sell-by date. Sheridan Morleys Melodies for You has already been axed (last month, very quietly). Replacing these shows from next Sunday is two hours of Alan Titchmarsh, who even now will be getting used to cheap jokes about turning over old sods and uprooting hardy annuals. In addition, Pick of the Pops gets an extra half-hour.
Plenty of people will welcome these changes. The audience for Your Hundred Best Tunes has fallen from 570,000 in 2002 when its creator, Alan Keith, was still hosting it in that uniquely upholstered voice, reminiscent of Bakelite and wing collars to 390,000. Its radio listening share between 9pm and 10pm has dropped from 19% then to 13%. The presenter, Richard Baker, a former naval officer, is a little brisk.
Others, however, are outraged. On BBC message boards, they mourn the loss of a serene Sunday-evening institution that a former archbishops wife (Mrs Runcie) and the late Earl Spencer, Princess Dianas father, once presented as holiday reliefs. They believe it will result in less light music on the network, and regard this as particularly worrying given that Radio 3 will next month abolish its only series dedicated to light music Brian Kay on Thursdays at 4pm. (That move will certainly disenfranchise listeners, and seems quixotic indeed in view of the resurgence of light music on labels such as Naxos, Guild, Hyperion and Chandos.) In reply, Radio 2 says that light classical music will continue to have a home on the network on Friday Night Is Music Night, on Titchmarshs new show and others.
The key question is not whether one approves or dis-approves of this particular decision by Radio 2s controller, Lesley Douglas, a controversial but astute manager who has already brought in Jonathan Ross, Chris Evans, Russell Brand and Dermot OLeary. The question is whether any BBC radio programme controller, not just her, should have the power to make sweeping changes without any public consultation. In the time I have been writing about radio here, I have seen them turn Radio 1 from mainstream to yoof and Radio 2 from comforting to trendy, and both the abolition of childrens programmes on Radio 4 and their restoration. Last year, Radio 3 ended its only series for children (Making Tracks), apart from a Boxing Day special, and again so quietly that nobody noticed. Next month, it cuts live music for the first time in its history. Listeners get a chance to comment on this only after the decisions are made, unless there is a leak from the sort of concerned whistleblower the BBC champions in Whitehall, but hypocritically condemns in its own ranks.
If the new BBC trust really wants to show that it is more responsive than the BBC governors, it will reverse that with its new public consultation exercise, launched last week. Programme controllers spend tens of millions of pounds of our money every year: why should we not get an opportunity to affect crucial decisions before they are made, rather than afterwards, when it is already too late? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.....
Last edited by gfloyd on Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:20 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
Just one error in an otherwise excellent article: Lesley Douglas did not of course hire Ross. Her predecessor Moir did. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:09 am Post subject: |
|
|
' if not all its listeners now regard it as past its sell-by date.'
Isn't this rather presumptious. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | ' if not all its listeners now regard it as past its sell-by date.'
Isn't this rather presumptious. |
No I think the audience figure drop tells a story. The probably put the wrong person in to replace Alan Keith in retrospect.
The full sentence reads
"But Radio 2s bosses if not all its listeners now regard it as past its sell-by date."
which I take to mean that some Radio 2 listeners think it has NOT passed its sell by date. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
I've never had a problem with Richard Baker's 'brisk' style. Not a word too may in his introductions to tracks, not hums and eh's. Quite refreshing I thought. Titchmarsh on the other hand will yap and yap and ask the listener silly questions, but I'm sure I'll enjoy the new Melodies For You. It will be so much better than Tony Robinson's over-produced and frankly silly show on CFM last night.
Ern is likely right. Lesley appears to have an obsession with listener figures. If any show drops more than 20% she'll move it or axe it, without consultation.
Mr Donovan's report was very good, he has carefully studied the opinions of messageboards that we contribute to here and on the Beeb website, and does seem to be quoting one or two of our posters. For example he lists the same four record labels that I posted about (I picked four out of a possible dozen) and mentions Brian Kay's show in the same breath. Interesting points he makes about children's programmes, I'd forgotten R3 had dropped 'Making Tracks' (it used to be broadcast before Brian Kay on a Thursday, a sort of school-run-home show, but the scripted 'teenage' presenters were awful IMHO).
Classic FM seem to have captured the children's market (for classical music) with Simon Bates' breakfast show which seems to be listened to by all the kids in the country who are learning flute and clarinet.
John W |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
gfloyd wrote: | Just one error in an otherwise excellent article: Lesley Douglas did not of course hire Ross. Her predecessor Moir did. |
Agreed Ernie. Paul Donovan's column always a good read.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Number Six
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 439 Location: In the village
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Reading the article this morning I had this feeling that Paul Donovan was really John W
I wasn't a YHBT listener but I would have thought that nearly 400,000 listeners wasn't bad for a Sunday evening. I have no idea what Sheridan Morley is going to be doing. Any ideas? Certainly Lesley Douglas has treated him poorly.
Don't suppose she read the Sunday Times. Not much in the way of talentless reality TV hosts in there _________________ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I think it would make sense for Radio 2 to have a midweek light classical show. It could be reasonably easily accomodated by some slight juggling the schedules if the will was there. It could even be on a Friday night if the archaic "interval" on FNIMN was ended.
I do worry that Radio 2 has given classical music a bad name and that the revival in interest is despite, not because of, the airplay that the music receives on the BBC networks. I would suspect that Classic fm, however much it is disliked by the Radio 3 set, has done more for classical music in the UK than anything else in recent years. I know many are hoping that they do the same for jazz with their new venture. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Number Six wrote: | Reading the article this morning I had this feeling that Paul Donovan was really John W
|
I had to check if he was quoting or what! I recall now that the same message that I posted here I also posted at R2MB and there was discussion on R3MB too though I don't think I posted there. So I don't know if Paul D has actually looked in on this forum.
The listener figures ~400k are very respectable and above what Saturday night gets on R2, and likely more than Nick Bailey gets on his weeknight concert shows on CFM so what indeed was the problem with Y100BT, I really do want to ask Lesley. I wrote to Feedback of course; we'll see what's on their agenda on Friday
John W |
|
Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Classic FM seem to have captured the children's market (for classical music) with Simon Bates' breakfast show which seems to be listened to by all the kids in the country who are learning flute and clarinet.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments so far very true and worth making but in my experience CFM doesn't often play light music of the Eric Coates/Robert Farnon variety. R2 hardly ever plays it and R3 is about to cease playing it. Yet the tubful of CDs of this repertoire suggests that there's a large market for it. What point am I missing here?
Ian. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Richard Baker made reference to Alan Titchmarsh's new show during his introduction and how he hoped the music would be similar. I'm still trying to work out whether there was a hint of rankle in what he said, although he still managed to deliver the words with dignity. _________________ Author: To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ian, it's not you missing the point. It's Ms Douglas and Rajar Right over on R3
Enjoying Richard Baker's last Y100BT, at least he is saying a proper farewell to the fans and the show.
That Kathleen Ferrier track was a bit scary though
You're needed on the Quiz thread!
Cherskiy, I think Richard was keeping a stiff upper lip, he is ex-RAF, did you know?
John W
. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
|
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ian, it's not you missing the point. It's Ms Douglas and Rajar Right over on R3
Enjoying Richard Baker's last Y100BT, at least he is saying a proper farewell to the fans and the show.
That Kathleen Ferrier track was a bit scary though
You're needed on the Quiz thread!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks John. Shall try to get the quiz done asap.
What was scary re the Kathleen Ferrier track?
Haven't yet heard last night's show but gather that the last track was the Evening Prayer from Under Milk Wood. It's the source of Mr Baker's weekly valediction--goodbye but just for now. Is he trying to tell us something?
Ian. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
John W
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK
|
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
iwarburton wrote: | Shall try to get the quiz done asap. |
Well, we're plodding through one question at a time and the forum/team are now doing quite well but stuck on Clip 7.
iwarburton wrote: | What was scary re the Kathleen Ferrier track? |
Something called Keel Row, a northern folksong, I couldn't catch the words so it sounded scary to me
iwarburton wrote: | Haven't yet heard last night's show but gather that the last track was the Evening Prayer from Under Milk Wood. It's the source of Mr Baker's weekly valediction--goodbye but just for now. Is he trying to tell us something?
|
Yes, this was an excellent track sung by Bryn Terfel. I knew nothing about R Baker's regular farewell words, but do now.
I had a mail from Beeb person Tony Brown who stated that Richard was discussing future shows.
John W |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
John W wrote: | Something called Keel Row, a northern folksong, I couldn't catch the words so it sounded scary to me
John W |
Keel Row:
Weel may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row
Weel may the keel row that my wee laddie's in
Weel may the keel row, the keel row, the keel row
Weel may the keel row that my wee laddie's in
As I came through Sandgate, through Sandgate, through Sandgate
As I came through Sandgate I heard a lassie sing
As I came through Sandgate, through Sandgate, through Sandgate
As I came through Sandgate I heard a lassie sing
Wha' s like my Johnnie, sae leish, sae blythe, sae bonnie
He's foremost 'mang the mony keel lads o' the Tyne
Wha' s like my Johnnie, sae leish, sae blythe, sae bonnie
He's foremost 'mang the mony keel lads o' the Tyne
He wears a blue bonnet, blue bonnet, blue bonnet
He wears a blue bonnet, a dimple on his chin
He wears a blue bonnet, blue bonnet, blue bonnet
He wears a blue bonnet, a dimple on his chin
Sandgate is the western end of Newcastle Quayside (the old Sand Gate in the old Newcastle town walls). The Keel Men were highly skilled boatmen who ferried coal from the riverside wharves to ships moored in the Tyne., whilst Keels were specialist boats capable of carrying about 20 tons of coal, the design dating back to the 1300s. The Keel Men and their jobs died out when staithes were built along the river, allowing colliers to tie up and take coal on directly. _________________ Author: To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Lady Boil De Spudswell
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 429 Location: Location, Location
|
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I must say how hard I found it last night to listen to a programme just fizzle out and end which has been around for as long as I've been on this planet, plus another ten years!!
It felt so "Is that all there is to it?" is that how a programme that's been around some 48 years just slips away?
I also couldn't quite get over how poor old RB was being prodded with a stick to say Titchmarsh was taking over. HE ISN'T!! It's Russell bloody Davies in the hallowed 9-10 slot with fare that is very un-100 Best.
Never much cared for Davies, and even less so in this new slot. Fortunately I have many old recordings of YHBT at my disposal and I rather feel they'll be dusted off and put on the CD player between 9&10pm on a Sunday from now on.
Who'd be the controller to axe a 48 year old programme eh? _________________ Who Can Take A Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew... |
|
Back to top |
|
|
general numpty
Joined: 21 Jan 2007 Posts: 73
|
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
CFM has gone right down hill IMHO. Master Bates with his version of drivel time, and John bloody Williams every 5 minutes |
|
Back to top |
|
|
iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
|
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The interview with Alan Titchmarsh in the new Radio Times has slightly reassured me re the likely musical content of his new programme--but I shall keep calling for more light music till something is done!
Ian. |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Cherskiy
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 3701 Location: near Amble, Northumberland
|
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
John W wrote: | Cherskiy, I think Richard was keeping a stiff upper lip, he is ex-RAF, did you know?
. |
No, I didn't - I thought he was ex-Royal Navy. _________________ Author: To the Ends of the Earth: A Snapshot of Aviation in North-Eastern Siberia, Summer 1992
(Free to read via Kindle Unlimited) |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|