Radio 3 is NOT a "classical only" station. It has a remit of "culture" which includes experimental music, spoken word, World music, folk music, etc.
In fact, you could say that "Classical" music would leave us with a rather poor diet of not much earlier than Mozart and not much later than Beethoven.... I for one am glad that we have "broad"casting on Radio 3 which includes many things I have never even heard of before. If I want to be spoon-fed like a 5 year old and inundated with adverts for junk I don't want to buy, I'll go to Classic FM. (The same is true on Radio 4 - the times I have turned on and ended up deliberately extending my journey home because I found something I previously had no knowledge of to be fascinating..... Same is mostly true of BBC 4 as well). Having lived for 4 1/2 years in the cultural wastelands of the US of A, you can't even BEGIN to realise how grateful I am for R3/R4, BBC2/4. We really do have something very, very special in the Beeb. David -----Original Message----- From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Peter Corlett Sent: 01 October 2016 16:09 To: get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017 On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 03:40:19PM +0100, Tony Quinn wrote: [...] > Given how poorly minority genres of music are covered by the > meainstram channels (ONE hour of folk music on Radio 2 per week), some > local radio stations have essential listening. You don't say *which* "minority genre", but some of that stuff inexplicably ends up on Radios 3 and 4, much to the annoyance of people who were expecting classical music, and no music. I still remember the green-ink letters about Anderson Country. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
