Blog posts by year and monthJune 2012
Posts (6)
Welcoming the New Generation Thinkers
Matthew Dodd, Radio 3's Head of Speech Programmes, introduces this year's New Generation Thinkers This week the first of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers 2012 take to the airwaves. Ten academics, all at the start of their careers, will be making their debut broadcasts on Night Waves in thei...
BBC Performing Groups - the Controller's view
Earlier today the findings of a report about the BBC's performing groups were published. The report was commissioned by the BBC from John Myerscough in order to examine the options for making budget savings in the BBC orchestras and BBC Singers. This is in line with the recent work undertaken...
Help us test the new Radio 3 homepage
We're testing a new homepage for Radio 3. For the next couple of months you'll see a link at the top of every Radio 3 web page. Click it and you'll see a test version of the new homepage (a 'beta' version, as the engineers call it) which will replace the current one later in the year. Try it out...
BBC Singers - Understanding Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra at home in 1949. Photo: Haywood Magee/Picture Post (Getty Images) Edward Goater, tenor member of the BBC Singers, introduces the music of Edmund Rubbra which Radio 3 listeners will be able to hear next week. Edward describes the richness and depth of the music, and suggests tha...
Petroc back for Breakfast ...
In the past I've never taken much pleasure from the 4.40am alarm call when I'm presenting Radio 3 Breakfast; getting up in what is still the middle of the night has until now always seemed a faintly unnatural act. Tomorrow however the steady bleep and flash of my mobile phone will be a reassur...
Choral Evensong
Philip Billson, Series Producer of Radio 3's long-running Choral Evensong, comments on recent technical problems which have affected the broadcasts As always at 3.30pm on Wednesday I was looking forward to Choral Evensong - this week from New College Oxford. And as usual, due attention had...
