tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post6405096342970280846..comments2024-03-18T20:52:42.375+01:00Comments on Random radio jottings: Radio 3 AnnouncersAndy Walmsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-61620574459555088172021-12-12T20:14:54.047+01:002021-12-12T20:14:54.047+01:00Gosh, I distinctly remember that incident. Thanks ...Gosh, I distinctly remember that incident. Thanks for the reminder of it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03516374348403753148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-86095791736767889892018-02-08T10:22:55.644+01:002018-02-08T10:22:55.644+01:00Readers interested in hearing the inimitable tones...Readers interested in hearing the inimitable tones of Robin Holmes (I noticed someone mentioned him reading Clare's Shepherd's Calendar) might be interested in the following recording culled from an old cassette tape of a Radio 3 concert, in the days when the interval - however short - was filled with words (rather than recorded music). In this case, the words formed a long-running series of monthly poetry readings 'chosen and read by Robin Holmes'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOHvQyktlGg Tim Atkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00858684167484655029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-65172685488005272422018-01-28T10:52:31.565+01:002018-01-28T10:52:31.565+01:00Victor Hallam told me he had been "the forces...Victor Hallam told me he had been "the forces sweetheart in Trieste" Although he didn't supply any other context. Tom Crowe had been a prisoner of the Japanese, which (we thought) explained his nervous twitch - a slightly worrying trope when he was putting on vinyl records.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01024849488911353661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-42944351218983004362017-12-31T17:47:13.207+01:002017-12-31T17:47:13.207+01:00so very trueso very trueAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03512300824497387235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-32110134696817771822017-08-30T16:43:18.481+02:002017-08-30T16:43:18.481+02:00Sorry about the deletes, nothing untoward. My trib...Sorry about the deletes, nothing untoward. My tribute to the peerless Robin Holmes. Introducing Ravel's Miroirs, he read Ravel's own description of noctuelles, 'as of butterflies draped over an old beam, like some sort of cravat.' But alborado del Gracioso was in his own words - 'described by some as a sort of Andalusian Petrushka, though it was of course written some years before Stravinsky's ballet.'<br />I still have the cassette.Norman Penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06755066270584219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-54551593558342404842017-08-29T13:10:09.935+02:002017-08-29T13:10:09.935+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Norman Penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06755066270584219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-69976447777404471832017-08-29T13:08:55.717+02:002017-08-29T13:08:55.717+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Norman Penhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06755066270584219728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-54106920126749098552016-12-12T21:44:16.488+01:002016-12-12T21:44:16.488+01:00Towards the end of his career Peter Barker used to...Towards the end of his career Peter Barker used to read the news just before closedown. His gentle, elderly voice was the last one heard before the national anthem, when he invariably signed off "That was the news, and that was Peter Barker reading it". One night - it must have been very shortly before he retired - he had made a few fluffs, and it was "That was the news, and I'm sorry I read it so badly". He sounded so apologetic I wished I could have told him not to worry about it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022834170097419769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-60680887066855749122016-10-04T17:54:37.771+02:002016-10-04T17:54:37.771+02:00Garry, I took the names from Humphrey Carpenter...Garry, I took the names from Humphrey Carpenter's book The Envy of the World but can't be 100% certain. He wasn't one of the team by the time I started listening in 1976. Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-11839832860380130112016-10-03T20:26:23.954+02:002016-10-03T20:26:23.954+02:00In that much-circulated picture of the Radio 3 ann...In that much-circulated picture of the Radio 3 announcing team in 1972, on the right-hand end of the front row, is one Norman Macleod. I'd always assumed that this was a misprint for Donald Macleod, but it doesn't look anything like him (I knew him slightly at the time) and I don't recall a Norman. Can anyone throw any light on the identity of this person?Garry Humphreyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424876884416431521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-27866974584033011942016-08-01T23:48:14.541+02:002016-08-01T23:48:14.541+02:00Robin Holmes was the father of Jeremy Holmes who i...Robin Holmes was the father of Jeremy Holmes who is currently giving readings of Tolstoy from a psychodynamic perspective..he is a psychiatrist/ retired psychoanlytic psychotherapist and world renowned expert of attachment theor. Interesting that he is to some extent following in father's footsteps in a love of literature and giving talks readings and lectures though with a different twist<br />see the The therapeutic imagination cobwebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167409180193489859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-32285301584226978742014-05-18T04:26:05.633+02:002014-05-18T04:26:05.633+02:00Was it Robin Holmes who used to read so beautifull...Was it Robin Holmes who used to read so beautifully john Clare's Shepherd's Calendar each month? It was wonderful but before the days of iPlayer, so you couldn't catch up on what you had missed. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04879387998702663519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-24014306257442967982014-01-11T11:53:57.968+01:002014-01-11T11:53:57.968+01:00How wonderful to hear some of these voices again. ...How wonderful to hear some of these voices again. I remember catching the tail-end of this era of authoritative but inobtrusive announcers in the 1980s. I spent many a happy weekend with my Grandfather being introduced into serious (and not-so serious) music with Radio 3 being a chief tool in his technique. These announcers provided so much of the flavour of the station with their precise diction. The general decline on Radio 3 into a too-chummy (accessible?) version of Radio 2 is something to be mourned with seemingly endless sequences of recordings (often excerpts) strung tenuously together around listener requests and - worse still - texts and tweets.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10638088005899255001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-26668172591215939742013-10-23T14:46:17.161+02:002013-10-23T14:46:17.161+02:00Alan, lovely to hear from you. Even in those fairl...Alan, lovely to hear from you. Even in those fairly formal R3 announcements John sounded like a great character. <br /><br />By the way if you ever feel like writing about your days at the BBC please get in touch. A clip of you launching Radio Manchester made it into my BBC90 sound montage.Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-39000091563021031622013-10-23T11:36:58.371+02:002013-10-23T11:36:58.371+02:00From a former Manchester-based announcer for Radio...From a former Manchester-based announcer for Radio 3 during the late 60s and then from 1983 to 1996.... So sad to hear of the passing Oct 2013 of the great John Holmstrom - he really was my hero and I enjoyed his company during my few Continuity shifts in R3 Con in the late 90s. I see you have his heroic fill-in at the Albet Hall when the piano-lift blew a fuse. Masterful. A great talent and will be much missed. ALAN SYKES, s.e. SpainAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14172316609286046878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-3045243128430990732012-12-20T10:24:09.077+01:002012-12-20T10:24:09.077+01:00Thanks Charles for your amusing anecdotes on this ...Thanks Charles for your amusing anecdotes on this and other blog posts. Great to hear from you. Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-80327283931107413732012-12-20T00:29:17.328+01:002012-12-20T00:29:17.328+01:00Victor Hallam - a charming man, always immaculatel...Victor Hallam - a charming man, always immaculately clad in a 3 piece suit, with gold watch and chain. Marvellous plummy voice, wicked sense of humour.<br /><br />Tom Crowe, quite possibly the thinnest man I've ever seen, and the only one who could sleep on the aged sofa in the Announcers' Lounge (those were the days) which sported a coiled spring, poking up through the upholstery. Tom could manage to kink himself round it and snore away, contentedly.Charles Novehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534129017054877066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-89647363736162894392011-05-11T13:28:06.280+02:002011-05-11T13:28:06.280+02:00Thank you for the feedback. Any audio clips are we...Thank you for the feedback. Any audio clips are welcome. Comments about the over-reliance on texts could, of course, apply to many programmes these days. Whilst good at allowing instant feedback, especially on topical issues, they are used to excess on many DJ-hosted shows as a cheap way of filling airtime.Andy Walmsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13647763223166778941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-85981634976504693862011-05-05T21:57:17.849+02:002011-05-05T21:57:17.849+02:00Thanks for sharing these clips, they bring back so...Thanks for sharing these clips, they bring back so many memories of the Radio 3 I grew up with, before they decided to emulate Classic FM in the early 1990s.<br /><br />I will have to hunt for my tape of Tony Scotland(?) attempting to play a CD (sorry, "cmPACT" disc) of some Schubert piano works, battling with two faulty CD players, then upsetting his tea into the newly-installed mixing desk, and finally, after several minutes of silence, re-appearing from another studio, completely out of breath.Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16162188974079552519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-43144228847520273182011-04-19T19:07:36.175+02:002011-04-19T19:07:36.175+02:00Many of these voices are almost musical in their o...Many of these voices are almost musical in their own right. Much of what made Radio 3 special has been lost in the quest for 'accessibility'. We are now at the point where Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch are reduced to punting for texts and reading bits from the papers, in between ever-shorter chunks of music. And the great Radio 3 pause, sad to say, is a thing of history.qxr963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16881099482533297012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2744024699281834535.post-67540852551334622182011-04-17T23:17:58.748+02:002011-04-17T23:17:58.748+02:00I think the 'Friends of Radio 3' are worth...I think the 'Friends of Radio 3' are worth a mention too....<br /><br />http://www.for3.org/Steve Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08062727836545335187noreply@blogger.com