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Post by Doctor Billy on Oct 23, 2005 15:24:50 GMT -5
I don’t know about Bird Flu, but I think all R4 staff should be vaccinated against this dangerous Trailitus FU2 virus that’s accelerating throughout the station at an alarming rate! They’ve even started running trails informing listeners of the latest news about the next news programme!!!!
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Post by Crusoe on Oct 25, 2005 9:54:59 GMT -5
Hee hee. Yes, Doctor, the trails are severely out of control. I think amputation may be required.
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Post by Doctor Billy on Oct 26, 2005 0:41:31 GMT -5
Hee hee. Yes, Doctor, the trails are severely out of control. I think amputation may be required. I wish, in particular, R4 would realise the damage they’re doing with these trails and this latest ‘trailing news of the news’ will drive listeners away even quicker. John Updike’s ‘Couples’ is a great choice for the classic serial and – more importantly – would have attracted some potential new listeners. So why drive them away with all those trails? Even the trail was designed to attract older listeners who will probably listen already! The endless trails for Margarve & The Marshes also did considerable damage. What a disappointment these readings have been. I keep asking myself if Michael Angelis spent years and years listening to JP’s music programmes and the I can only conclude that he didn’t. Perhaps it’s just one of those books to be read alone? |
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Post by Nurse Duckett on Oct 26, 2005 4:50:32 GMT -5
I completely agree and it's one the things that makes me rage at the radio. Especially when I've already heard the trailer two or three times and there's about a week to go before the programme will actually go out on the air.
I get so sick of them by then, that I will not listen to the programme. I can only think of one tiny argumentette for trailing the same programme so often at so many different times of day: they want to catch as many different people as possible. This completely overlooks the millions of R4 listeners who work from home or work varying shifts, for instance.
The very worst trailers, are those for veg talk. They make me jump up and run to the radio shouting over it and slamming it off. I will never listen to that programme even if you nailed me down. And all because of the goddammed trailers.
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Post by Doctor Billy on Oct 26, 2005 6:43:55 GMT -5
The very worst trailers, are those for veg talk. They make me jump up and run to the radio shouting over it and slamming it off. ;D Oh yes Grrrrrrrrr - and their voices drive me insane. I always imagine that the same people who call in to this programme also phone Money Box (no risk takers here!) and the WH phone in...........oh and love Gardeners' Question Time. Even I know how to preserve the handle on my gardening spade!!!! |
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Post by Nursie on Oct 26, 2005 7:09:48 GMT -5
I suppose phone-ins are a cheap way of making a programme.
You certainly do seem to listen to a lot of radio. I like some blissful silence now and then. But then I live with a Radio Addict...........
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Post by Doctor Billy on Oct 27, 2005 1:02:12 GMT -5
I suppose phone-ins are a cheap way of making a programme. You certainly do seem to listen to a lot of radio. ..... Oh yes, one of life's great pleasures. I love that scene in American Graffiti when you finally get to see Wolfman Jack broadcasting in that tiny studio. I loved his voice! |
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Post by Crusoe on Oct 30, 2005 13:40:34 GMT -5
I wish, in particular, R4 would realise the damage they’re doing with these trails and this latest ‘trailing news of the news’ will drive listeners away even quicker. So very true, Billy. I don’t know of anyone who finds trailers anything but an annoyance. John Updike’s ‘Couples’ is a great choice for the classic serial and – more importantly – would have attracted some potential new listeners. So why drive them away with all those trails? Even the trail was designed to attract older listeners who will probably listen already! I have to admit that I didn’t really get into “Couples” – I found that I didn’t really care about the fate of the bored bed-hoppers, although I can see that, being a more contemporary book than some Classic Serials, I can see that it could have attracted a new audience. Don’t the BBC realise that people are capable of reading listings? As you say the exceptional trailing would have put many people off. And as for “Margrave of the Marshes”, I certainly didn’t listen. Ironically, having read some extracts, I would have been keen to listen but the trailers really put me off. The perceptive Gillian Reynolds suggested that there was an excess of John Peel and also that Michael Angeis was the wrong choice of actor, having a strong Liverpudlian accent as opposed to Mr Peel’s Wirralian. |
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