CoW: Another repeat

[french frank]

In fairness, if that's the sum she's getting it's likely to be for her BBC contract, including work on Radio 4 and for television (e.g. Proms).

[Norfolk Born]

Far be it from me to offer the Radio 3 'management' an explanation/justification for the recent rash of repeats, but I did wonder whether it's been decided that we should all be ready to display our Britishness when the Royal celebrations really get going in earnest. Although I'm agnostic when it comes to HM, her family and their doings, I'd rather wave a flag and raise a cheer for them than display an equal degree of enthusisam for our cosseted, self-centred, overexposed Olympians. (Or our equally cosseted, self-centred, overexposed soccer 'stars' who, unlike the Olympians, don't even manage to win anything).

[Bax-of-Delights]

In fairness, if that's the sum she's getting it's likely to be for her BBC contract, including work on Radio 4 and for television (e.g. Proms).

Would her R3 work be chargeable to the R3 budget?

In any respect I find it astonishing that the BBC would believe that KD was actually worth the money and was a positive asset to the network in that more people would want to turn on to her broadcasts rather than turn off.
(But I will admit that KD makes my teeth itch with her over-accentuated pronounciation and air-sucking technique.)

[Panjandrum]

Would her R3 work be chargeable to the R3 budget?

In any respect I find it astonishing that the BBC would believe that KD was actually worth the money and was a positive asset to the network in that more people would want to turn on to her broadcasts rather than turn off.
(But I will admit that KD makes my teeth itch with her over-accentuated pronounciation and air-sucking technique.)

On behalf of the qualified chartered accountants out there, I can definitely say that there would be an apportionment of her fee to the various cost/profit centres (i.e. channels) which benefit (sic) from her services. This would be predicated on a reasonable basis, such as hours worked, audience reach etc.

On the subject of KD, I saw her recently on Sky Arts' "First Love", in which she demonstrated a practical ability on the violin and a love of music which I had not previously appreciated, as well as a touchingly vulnerable side to her character. Unfortunately, this warmth does not appear to translate to radio.

[hmvman]

On the Saturday Classics thread there was discussion about George Lloyd and a CotW about him around 10 (?) years ago. Presumably these programmes still exist so why cannot we have repeats of such as these programmes, not ones that are still fresh in the memory? Or, perhaps the tapes have not been kept - if so then that's a terrible shame.

That would be good to have a repeat of the Lloyd COTW. If the tapes have been wiped/thrown out surely the scripts must still exist in the archives and one would suppose that it wouldn't be a huge cost to re-record them and slot in the music recordings.

[EdgeleyRob]

That would be good to have a repeat of the Lloyd COTW.

In our dreams !

[doversoul]

I can’t remember where I read it or heard it, though it was only yesterday (I think), but it does seem that the repeat of this CoW is part of ‘celebration of British music’.

• Do we think Purcell as a ‘British’ composer?
• If it is a celebration, why not make a new programme to ‘celebrate’? It would have been very interesting to have a CoW of several British composers and investigate what makes British composers’ works unique.
• If it had to be a repeat, surely they could have dug in the archive deeper rather than picking up the one that was happened to be near the surface?

I don’t know… It looks as if their heart is not in it. Not that I have any complaints at all about a week of Purcell’s music but that’s beside the point.

[Serial_Apologist]

I can’t remember where I read it or heard it, though it was only yesterday (I think), but it does seem that the repeat of this CoW is part of ‘celebration of British music’.

• Do we think Purcell as a ‘British’ composer?
• If it is a celebration, why not make a new programme to ‘celebrate’? It would have been very interesting to have a CoW of several British composers and investigate what makes British composers’ works unique.
• If it had to be a repeat, surely they could have dug in the archive deeper rather than picking up the one that was happened to be near the surface?

I don’t know… It looks as if their heart is not in it. Not that I have any complaints at all about a week of Purcell’s music but that’s beside the point.

Purcell washes whiter, and so is definitely a British composer.