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gfloyd · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:32 am Post subject: BBC Radio 3 Taking No Chances

According to the ST column by Paul Donovan, Radio 3 were very careful that the presenters departing as a result of the schedule changes would not say anything controversial in their final bradcast.

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Mark Russell, who was the co-host, with Robert Sandall, of Mixing It, which for 16 years featured experimental and improvised music, says on his blog: “Some listeners wondered why Robert and I didn’t make a statement on air. The reason is because it wouldn’t have been broadcast. We recorded our final show yesterday, a few hours before it was broadcast. A BBC senior editor sat through the whole thing. I can’t ever remember that happening before.”
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Ernie,

I was quite shocked to learn about this last week and indeed Mark Russell originally posted a link/statement on our sister board (the new R3 board) and it is very revealing and sad to read the whole thing and see Roger Wright's (controller) involvement:

http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=159.0

John W

gfloyd · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject:

gfloyd · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject:

I have just read the full message written by Mark Russell and the R3 controller sounds like a control freak and a rather unsavoury character. His approach would seem to be more at home in a commercial station than a public service broadcaster.
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

ern wrote,

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I read Paul Donovan's column this morning (it's usually a good read) and it sounds like madness. I don't listen to R3 so can't comment on anything in specific but have read enough to think it won't be popular.

As for the message boards they are doing just the opposite to what they have done to the R2 ones.....

Where do they get these Controllers from? R2's is just as bad.

H
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gfloyd · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject:

Interesting article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in today's Guardian. Wheatcroft himself is quite a good broadcasters in a Boris Johnson type of way.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/radio/comment/0,,2017031,00.html
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Very interesting. I agree with the point about radio forming a part of education. It applies equally to other networks as well.

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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