About that brainteaser this morning... seriously? 'Guess whose death...' The Commendatore's show-stopper? Brainteaser?
What do you think we are – twelve?
Give your audience the credit for knowing, at the very bloody least, its musical ABC. Alternatively, call yourselves We Do Classic FM Better Than Classic FM and stop wasting the licence fee on audience research reports which you obviously don't read.
Oh, wait. I get it. Didactic, right? Of course. Syrupy Cowan's talking down to your longed-for 'younger demographic', right?
OK, I know my place and Radio 3 is not it, obviously.
I tried. Honestly I tried. But it's no good. I'm off. It was nice for a decade or several but, hey, all things shall pass, including BBC producers who decline to insult their audience.
Bye, then. Thanks for the memory.
Prodicus (Who knows when he's not wanted)
PS: If you want me [ *irony alert* ] I'll be here:
Dreadful, isn't it? Even I got that 'puzzle' right. But the whole station is now - nearly all of it - all 'you guys', 'gonna', 'kinda' and shrieking girlies trying to pretend they haven't got Oxbridge degrees. It is like being addressed by Telethon yoof presenters, those awful moralising bullies whose stock in trade is merely being (self-appointed) cooler than thou. I have only been back in the UK for a few months and already I'm playing 'INCREDIBLE!' bingo whenever Suzy Klein infests the airwaves ...
ReplyDeleteThank God for the presence of Donald McLeod, Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping (and any other old lags I haven't named whose notion of broadcasting is to share both knowledge and enthusiasm + insights) - but for how much longer?