Words and Music....at teatime

[ardcarp]

Does Words and Music count as a playlist programme? The fantastic thing about it is that the music falls on 'the innicent ear' and it is a delight to work out the often oblique connections between the...er...words and music. It necessarily demands ones full attention.....indeed one needs a quasi- meditative mind-set to get the most out of it. How is one supposed to do this at TEA-TIME?

I am aware that much has been said about the new R3 schedule, but surely W & M was conceived as a bed-time-ish sort of programme; utterly crass therefore to stick it on at half-past six.

['grr' doesn't seem to be working on my PC this morning, but if it did there'd be six of them at least.]

[Caliban]

Does Words and Music count as a playlist programme? The fantastic thing about it is that the music falls on 'the innicent ear' and it is a delight to work out the often oblique connections between the...er...words and music. It necessarily demands ones full attention.....indeed one needs a quasi- meditative mind-set to get the most out of it. How is one supposed to do this at TEA-TIME?

I am aware that much has been said about the new R3 schedule, but surely W & M was conceived as a bed-time-ish sort of programme; utterly crass therefore to stick it on at half-past six.

['grr' doesn't seem to be working on my PC this morning, but if it did there'd be six of them at least.]

Allow me....



(I agree, incidentally)

[ardcarp]

Thanks!

[DracoM]

At tea time.............but about breakfast...........

Erm...........?

[ardcarp]

I was trying to explain the British class system (which I hate) to a German couple the other day. I began by saying that the upper classes have lunch at dinnertime and supper at teatime whereas the lower classes have dinner at lunchtime, tea at suppertime and supper at bedtime....but they looked a bit confused, so I gave up.

[Norfolk Born]

Why does 'Words and Music' not appear in the A-Z of Programmes?

[french frank]

Why does 'Words and Music' not appear in the A-Z of Programmes?

It does. It's got a fry-up alongside it, I think because the theme is ... Breakfast (complete with authentic phone-in?).

[mercia]

the upper classes have lunch at dinnertime and supper at teatime whereas the lower classes have dinner at lunchtime, tea at suppertime and supper at bedtime

so the lower classes have an extra meal per day. perhaps this explains the phenomenon of obesity.
if attention and alertness are required for Words and Music, I think I am more alert at tea-time than bedtime.

[ardcarp]

I think I am more alert at tea-time than bedtime.

Maybe....but have you got stampedes of children, grandchildren, wives, etc in full cry? I have, and find bedtime to be much preferred for anything faintly cerebral.

[mercia]

Maybe....but have you got stampedes of children, grandchildren, wives, etc in full cry?

point taken. no I haven't. blimey, how many wives have you got?