Jeez, David, you’re sounding an awful lot like that curmudgeon, Philip Larkin, who was as far as Im concerned quite wrong about jazz…
Doug
> On Sep 13, 2018, at 4:16 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I used Jewel in the crown as being the best thing on BBC not the most expensive
>
> P
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> On 12/09/2018 13:01, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>> Far from being a jewel in any crown the channel is one of the poorest
>> funded of BBC radio.
>> As for your poem, it wasn't even the beginnings of one.
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, 12:11 pm Patrick McManus, <
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>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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/
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