well said David I especially appreciated 'alleged poem' must not criticise radio 3 jewel in the crown of our radio service On 12/09/2018 11:35, David Bircumshaw wrote: > Rubbish Patrick. Both as an opinion and an alleged poem. If any channel > deserves the title, it would be Radio 4. > There has been downward pressure on the channel recently, particularly in > the surrender of time to the ultimate mental carpet slippers: jazz. > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, 11:12 am Patrick McManus, < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi Tim I appreciate what you are saying-I love radio 3 also mainly for >> lack of words one can think!! >> >> it is much better world music wise these days and even heavens Jazz! >> some of the talks (for me !!!!) could be on Radio 4 >> >> cheers old P >> >> >> On 12/09/2018 10:07, Tim Allen wrote: >>> Rare for me to take issue with one of yours Patrick, but I do take issue >> with this one, even though I do get it's tongue-in-cheek. Music is always >> political in some way and I do not think of R3 as 'soothing tunes', we're >> not talking Classical FM or whatever it's called. Radio 3 puts out an >> amazing variety of classical and so-called 'art-music', very much of it >> modern and far from soothing - catch it at the right time of day. >>> Cheers >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> On 12 Sep 2018, at 09:13, Patrick McManus wrote: >>> >>>> *R3* >>>> >>>> Radio 3 >>>> >>>> the opiate >>>> >>>> of the >>>> >>>> middle classes >>>> >>>> /pmcmanus/ >>>> >>>> /s334/ >>>> >>>> /Radio 3UK classic music/ >>>> >>>> / safe non political/ >>>> >>>> /soothing tunes/ >>> ######################################################################## >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1