The document has been permanently moved. Back row (l to r): Jon Curle, Victor Hallam, Tony Scotland, Donald Price, Cormac Rigby, Front row: part of Tom Crowe, Peter Barker, Patricia Hughes, Robin Holmes, Norman Mcleod, Trained at RADA and worked for several years as an actor. Overnight, it became, “join me —— ——” and their somewhat pedestrian take on a given piece. Gushwell is an LLB graduate whose voice and love for radio is ever lit. Thanks for sharing these clips, they bring back so many memories of the Radio 3 I grew up with, before they decided to emulate Classic FM in the early 1990s.I will have to hunt for my tape of Tony Scotland(?) Radio 1 has announced that five new presenters will join the station from 4 January. Became a reporter on leaving school and then emigrated to Australia where he worked on the Sydney Morning Herald and then as a reporter for ABC in Tasmania. Pages in category "BBC Radio 3 presenters" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. Other Radio 3 announcers from this period were Robin Holmes, Anthony Sargeant. Sometimes I wonder whether the BBC is trying to fill up the time because it can’t afford to buy any more CDs. My work at 6 Music was partly office- and studio-based, but I went out to record interviews. God forbid that Cowan or Walker tell us something we knew already! Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Surely this is better than a presenter with limited musical qualifications telling us the world premiere of Elgar’s Apostles took place at King’s College Cambridge, and then repeating the error a few minutes later. (Cooke’s performing version). BBC weather presenter Behnaz Akhgar is joining BBC Radio Wales as the new presenter of the afternoon programme, Monday to Thursday 2-5pm, with … Robert – you should have booked two weeks’ leave before posting a blog like this! Many of these voices are almost musical in their own right. NRG radio presenters aim to "entertain, inform, engage, inspire" their listeners with the rich programs that are aired on the channel, which are a combination of entertainment and music. Reach Radio . On Essential Classics have a feature called Music in Time which contextualises a piece according to what else was going on in music history at that time. Left in 1962 returning in 1967. Left the BBC in 1962 to look after her family, returning in 1969 initially freelance and then back on the staff in 1970. When the Third Programme was launched the Director General said “Its whole content will be directed to an audience that is not of one class but that is perceptive and intelligent.”. Essential Information Radio presenters, also known as announcers, … And Now for Something Completely Different, Down Your Local - 50 Years of BBC Radio Kent, Down Your Local - 50 Years of BBC Radio London, This must be one of the stations that Tony Prince mentioned that are starting up next year, Once upon a time: to smartphones and podcast apps. BBC Radio 3 is refreshing its programmes and presenters with a new After Dark zone and changes to its weekend programmes. Recommendations always come with opinions – how can they not? I think the 'Friends of Radio 3' are worth a mention too....http://www.for3.org/. Don’t know Bertie but I’ll try to investigate. Having worked on both sides of the fence (station-wise), so to speak, I have great respect for my fellow presenters without wanting to ape any of them. He is also the Chair of the Northside Radio 99.3 Board. The music becomes a part of us – and we absorb it. The ‘announcer’ intros were so formal it was positively off putting, sort of ‘what on earth are you doing here? Victor Hallam told me he had been "the forces sweetheart in Trieste" Although he didn't supply any other context. The Breaking Free season has been a good example. I remember catching the tail-end of this era of authoritative but inobtrusive announcers in the 1980s. Absolutely. The great Terry Wogan one night sinking nice pints with a then famous and now fallen young radio presenter said that: They either like you, or they don’t like you. I especially like Nietzsche’s idea that having the courage to oppose your convictions is more important than simply having the courage of your convictions – and by entering into dialogue with our Radio 3 listeners (which on the whole we do very successfully) that’s precisely what we do. Edge Radio Community radio for Wotton and beyond.. play_arrow. My pet hates are: quizzes; phone ins; uninformative fill-in woffle before and after concerts, and stuff that is more about the presenter than about the subject matter. My advice is that if your agenda is otherwise, no need to bother. It’s important to be with music – all music. Go and stand in front of a painting for one hour – not one minute. More music on TV would be a way forward. As to ‘spouting opinion’ I think it safe to say that most opinion is offered by presenters who do know their stuff. In this arena is where a Rob Cowan or Andrew McGregor stands out. version of Radio 2 is something to be mourned with seemingly endless sequences of recordings (often excerpts) strung tenuously together around listener requests and - worse still - texts and tweets. That’s my tuppence Rob. It is wonderful that we have Radio 3, but I think sometimes the presenters forget that the reason we have switched on a music programme is that we want to hear music. For me it is indeed a question of balance . We may disagree with the choice but, more often than not (and certainly as far as I am concerned) we are likely to learn from what we are being told. I make a distinction between an introduction whether to well known works or works that are rarely played that is factual and enlightening and gush. This job posting expired and applications are no longer accepted. Rob. Much of what made Radio 3 special has been lost in the quest for 'accessibility'. Retired in 1982. At best, presenting creates debate. Joined Radio 4 in Northern Ireland in 1972 before transferring to Radio 3 as announcer and presenter of. We are the Station for gaming. Perhaps Ruskin, whose birth bicentenary is in 2019, should be my next strand here? attempting to play a CD (sorry, "cmPACT" disc) of some Schubert piano works, battling with two faulty CD players, then upsetting his tea into the newly-installed mixing desk, and finally, after several minutes of silence, re-appearing from another studio, completely out of breath. A real problem on Czech C Dur. Created and produced, BBC studio manager in 1956 becoming an announcer on the Light Programme in 1957. And to be truthful if the performance isn’t much good, be kindly by all means but not overly enthusiastic. The few times I listen to Classic FM, there are those infuriating hours of bits of music which are only announced every four pieces or so, and often without clear performer information. I’ve poached this posting re the Breaking Free season on Radio 3 from Facebook. What are Radio 3 presenters for? Presented, Joined the BBC as a secretary in 1944 before becoming an announcer on the General Overseas Service in 1946. Masterful. They can like/dislike, love/hate Rob Cowan or Andrew McGregor or whomever but they can never accuse them of being untruthful. I don’t think R3 should go as far as to say the BBC Phil are dull even if once in a while they are but Radio 3 should not talk down. And yet what they’re applauding is too often not the actual performance but some extra-musical aspect of ‘the event’, be it the conductor’s/pianist’s/violinist’s/singer’s personality or the thrill of praising an underdog. Splitting my time between Radio 3 and 6 Music meant that there wasn’t really a typical day. Donate to your Community radio station. Listening to the Radio and listening to Music are entirely different experiences. Rob. BBC Radio 3 has appointed Georgia Mann as an additional presenter on its breakfast programme from Monday 9 July 2018. Radio 3 over the course of a normal week easily has more than 20 hours of non-classical music programming. We are the Station for gaming. Victor Hallam - a charming man, always immaculately clad in a 3 piece suit, with gold watch and chain. Former Sabras Radio presenter, Rishi Modi has passed away at the age of 35, after a short battle with coronavirus. 0 active jobs ... Reach Radio is an online internet station available through App, Smart Speaker, Web and in game. the point re: Breaking Free is that like so much of contemporary art you don’t have to ‘like’ something to appreciate it, and to want to find out more about it. Briefly an announcer with the South African Broadcasting Corporation. A. Vassos Alexander; Jill Allgood; I see you have his heroic fill-in at the Albet Hall when the piano-lift blew a fuse. Azt követték sorra a magyar előadók is. Some listeners will find the facts of interest whereas others no doubt just want to get on with the business of listening. Last week’s Viennese escapade is the perfect of example of music that needed explaining, at least for those who had yet to discover it. So many areas that could be introduced, French Keyboard Music Couperin to Rameau,etc etc by some one who knows their subject. In the Classical Music arena however various filters and barriers are quickly in play. Marvellous plummy voice, wicked sense of humour.Tom Crowe, quite possibly the thinnest man I've ever seen, and the only one who could sleep on the aged sofa in the Announcers' Lounge (those were the days) which sported a coiled spring, poking up through the upholstery. It is not the role of the announcer to tell us whether or not he or she enjoyed the work, after all it is rare that someone enjoys Palestrina and Wagner and Jazz and World Music and Musicals but announcers have to introduce them all, some times sadly one after the other! Don’t know what song’s been playing on the radio? That, I would wager, is what listeners prize above all: integrity. Maybe, one day, I’ll get the music, too. A clip of you launching Radio Manchester made it into my BBC90 sound montage. Famous for … Martin Handley. ‘I have enjoyed the background information more than the subsequent music, but that is a start.’ A very important start I would have thought. Any audio clips are welcome. Presenting, like criticism I suppose, is often deemed to have no point or role. I think that the chat element has eased off of late but I wouldn’t say that a warming element of informality is necessarily a band things. You can tune into the channel and listen to these presenters as they do their best to inform and entertain you. ‘ I still defy anyone to explain convincingly how they can truly enjoy such agonising random noise.’ ‘Is it very sad that I am glad to have missed it? When I heard Stockhausen live I was spellbound. Described as having a “dark brown voice” by … As it happens I think we should just occasionally say if we’re not liking something, if only to prove that the ‘trusted guide’ really is to be trusted – I’ve done it myself quite a few times (to the annoyance of some, no dount). All RNZ presenters. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. With music – as with art – we not simply ‘listening’ or ‘looking’ but Quality radio with mature professional presenters and the greatest music ever recorded was a thing of the past, until now! And ‘special’ doesn’t have to mean having several doctorates in the subject. Building A Library has to be the best example of this. Further to this, another presenter has found me having to switch off the radio, as does a former editor of a longstanding hi-fi and music publication friend of mine, when given presenter begins to assert their own beliefs; regularly talking over the interviewee and telling them (a possible expert in their own field) what they know; as though wanting to tell all how knowledgeable they are too. From 1972 Radio 3 had its own Presentation team led by Cormac Rigby. London, United Kingdom BBC Radio 3: Jazz Now - Monday nights 11pm - 12:30am Radio Oxford Presenter BBC Jul 2013 - Present 7 years 6 months. 301 Moved Permanently . I don’t think Radio 3 can employ such people on a permanent basis. Ball's salary has jumped from £370,000-£374,999 in 2018/19 to £1,360,000-£1,364,999 in 2019/20, for her work on Radio 2's Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. The chattier style is not all bad, although the pally sycophancy of In Tune grates. He sounded so apologetic I wished I could have told him not to worry about it. Best Discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works. Nonn is a radio presenter, mother of four, music lover, voice-over artist, a budding filmmaker, and an aspiring author. But what do you think? Performers too sometimes take interpretative options that call for some clarification (Glenn Gould, Horowitz, Huberman, Toscanini, Furtwängler), especially in view of today’s very different interpretative manners. Rob. January 7, 2017 at 11:39 am Reply. Less chat when it is not needed may be desirable, but no explanations of any kind, and no advance playlist in print or online was perhaps a step too far in the other direction. Best. Though he no longer broadcasts in the UK, Christian O’Connell is one of Britain’s most popular radio DJs of recent years. On the Music Programme in 64-65 with, On BFBS in Egypt in 1950 before joining the BBC as a studio manager in 1953. When the BBC’s Third Programme started in 1946 it had its own continuity announcing team consisting of Alvar Lidell, Patrick Butler (who made the opening announcement), Christopher Pemberton, Marjorie Anderson (later of. Radio 3 Presenter BBC Apr 2016 - Present 4 years 9 months. Detailed Information does not put of the beginner, quite the opposite, and we all begin with no information. It’s the quality of the criticism and how it’s communicated. (I agree with the point above about written scripts: how they’re delivered matters. How wonderful to hear some of these voices again. That’s true David. For Howard Stern it was college radio; for John Peel it was a small station in Dallas (just to name a few). The Breaking Free season is one of the best things Radio 3 has done for a long time – much more informative than those unimaginative single composer saturation weeks, in that they introduce works not often heard and challenge the listeners in a way endless repeats of The Lark Ascending (a fine work) can never do. Talking of Kenneth Clark his book ‘Ruskin Today’ has helped me enter into the world of a thinker who has become an all-consuming passion, more recent than your epiphany into the arts generally (we more or less coincide there) but profound all the same. Personally I am very glad of intelligent knowledgeable explanations, of which there are plenty and I’ve learned a lot from them, but I get very irritated with presenters foisting on us chat for chat’s sake. Listen Live; Listen Live; Website; Podcast; LineUp; Frequency Wikimedia Commons has media related to Radio presenters from the United Kingdom: Subcategories. ‘being with it’. BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. They were announcers, we’re presenters – and therein lies the principal difference. Comments about the over-reliance on texts could, of course, apply to many programmes these days. Sorry, that sounds terribly curmudgeonly but I’m sure you know what I mean. But alborado del Gracioso was in his own words - 'described by some as a sort of Andalusian Petrushka, though it was of course written some years before Stravinsky's ballet. Further audio and information may also be added and I would welcome any contributions from readers of this blog. Try Radio.co with a 7-day free trial today. Move forward and the importation of a somewhat glamorously adorned commercial television presenter, (and all that comes with such window dressing, not to mention a dose of ego), and SMP was suddenly nowhere to be seen again. Do you know whether his radio broadcasts are accessible on the web? But on the matter of presenters: What else can you do? Presenter of, Worked in orchestral management including General Manager of the Ulster Orchestra. Great post Bernard – and lovely to see you here.’They either believe you or don’t believe you. If it’s the former everything flows from that: script, anecdote, opinion, comment – whatever.’ So true! I am very glad you’ve raised this question. Golden rule: Presenters should aim to stretch their listeners – not pander to their presumed lack of knowledge. BBC Radio 3 playlist. I sometimes wonder whether, in trying to broaden Radio 3’s appeal, the BBC is losing some of its core audience. I used to complain to the programme frequently in a bid to cutting out such dreadfully unprofessional a practice but it has not abated. It wasn’t always so great in the old days of Radio 3 with the austere, distinctly frosty, (and virtually all male) presenting style that Dead Ringers mocked so accurately. Most presenters are well-informed, but in recent years they have been working to an apparent formula which over emphasises the chat to such an extent that sentences run into one another, forcing the presenters to gasp for breath mid-phrase. Moved to the Light Programme and then joined the Third Programme in 1952. A great talent and will be much missed. Interesting that he is to some extent following in father's footsteps in a love of literature and giving talks readings and lectures though with a different twistsee the The therapeutic imagination. From my point of view the guidance offered by presenters is invaluable. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The reason I wrote that I’m glad I missed it is that I didn’t have to do all that hard work. Here we have the complete list of the 702 radio station journalists and their radio shows. The station describes itself as 'the world's most significant commissioner of new music', and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. Howard Stern. In this case, the words formed a long-running series of monthly poetry readings 'chosen and read by Robin Holmes'. Oh that I was an expert. Weekdays 1.0. Darlo Radio is now looking to raise the bar with realistic ambitions to truly own its patch. Great to hear from you. Joined the BBC as announcer on the General Overseas Service in 1950. As a radio presenter she has worked on Triple J breakfast, TGIF ABC 702 and currently hosts the Friday drive show The Long Way Home at FM99.3. Radio Station for every Language. BBC Radio 1 has announced a presenting shake-up for 2021, with five new presenters set to join the station while three current presenters will be departing. One being Jenny Wilkes, as mentioned on Radio Today, but the others are WM producer/journo Kevin Pashby & as mentioned on the Jenny Wilkes tweet, Midlands Today's Ian Winter, who was at WM years ago, but I seem to recall hearing he came over BBC East way for a few years, before coming to MT. This move signalled the end of the separate announcer role as the remaining announcers eventually became programme presenters and/or producers. Biographical information has been compiled from my own notes, internet research. I’m not so I’m happy to be guided. There's Jazz, Opera, World Music, speech content none … I spent many a happy weekend with my Grandfather being introduced into serious (and not-so serious) music with Radio 3 being a chief tool in his technique. But doesn’t that go for audience reaction too, especially at a concert? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Makes you think, re-think and re-think again. He was a model communicator, on or off air. Penny Pedersen. 'I still have the cassette. As it happens I’ve just been revisiting (for the first time since seeing it as a teenager when it was initially broadcast) Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation. Surely there is a middle ground which both informs and serves as a sort of mild stimulant. That’s the state the true listener is in. Get the latest music news, gigs and ticket info and find out more about new tracks and the greatest songs of all time. My listening has reduced because of these irritations and because foreign stations on the internet are much more restrained, or I can not understand them! Mistakes, far more common than in the past and emphasis on trivia all undermine the belief of the listener in the abilities of the announcer. Became one of the presenter-producers from the early 1990s. 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