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BBC sounds music Radio podcasts a lot of early morning listeners are unhappy that there by the disappearance of the Radio 4 news briefing at 5:30 and the award-winning add to playlist has just finished its current run on Radio 4 The never-ending stream.

Link music and song has won a lot of Praise over the past few months.

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Hi, it's started and I don't keep it going and an unusual complaint from one listener you too many of us complaining that he's had no complaints back in November I interviewed John McAndrew the director of programmes for BBC news about the plans to make say 24 million times across news output which is around 4% of the current budget at the time much of the focus was on the acting of hard talk, but I did ask him.

Why why?

Was early morning briefing was being cut the answer was budget constraints well not this actually happened.

It's really caught your attention body from what has happened to Radio 4 news briefing previously said your daily at 5:30 a.m.

Of Leon Robbins has been producing radio at the BBC for more than three decades the weather which does remain the leading newspapers Business News sports news events happened in the past on that day perfect together with some stretching exercises done at the same time the program.

Set me up nicely so that I was well informed as I said out to walk to the local pool for my agenda swim, please bring back news briefing that really.

Time to me just what an important part radio and specifically exactly what is being broadcast and when plays in the early morning routine for so many of this is usually embrace change I really must have this week's changes to the early morning Radio 4 schedule my habit for decades has been to set my alarm for 5:30 quickly absorbed the main news of the Day from the 5:30 is give me a gentle introduction to the world's events before I can send them fully at sixmilebridge from the shower and the Today Show starts the Pulse of my morning is now gone and how many different weather forecast do we need first thing on a Monday in Gosport Hampshire it's been an interesting deserved with its own properly scheduled time slot and forgot, please put it back.

Tomorrow morning Radio 4 will have a new Look between 5 and 6 a.m.

With news the return of yesterday in Parliament the shipping forecast for the day and farming today.

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I'll be looking at a few of the stories.

You might have missed from the last week in parliament and what's on my agenda this week on Francis in Torpoint in Cornwall I can think of few more depressing starts to the day than yesterday and Parliament why did the early morning schedule change on this day in earlier years MPs get set to debate an overhaul of the planning system, but will it meet the government's ambition to get Britain building from Anthony Browne Rickmansworth super hate the new schedule with a full half hour of Parliament I really do not wish to listen to these self-important win bags and very much prefer 20-minutes of the world service followed by

Forecast and the news and papers at 5:30 a.m.

I've given up listening when is Caroline Taylor and I'm phoning from Cambridge we don't like the changes you've made today to the BBC Radio 4 schedule from 5:30 in the morning.

We thought the news briefing was an excellent really brought it up to date with current events.

Can you summary weather for features to be honest is this change remains? We will be a different station.

Don't thing in the morning.

Hello this is Christopher could you please bring back news briefing? There is no other program that in 30-minutes provide a review that fully informed us to the day ahead and also could you reconsider the changes? You are making to the Today programme it used to offer challenging conversations.

Around the days key news items but it seems to evacuated this unique positioning turning instead to repair pieces that appear to be an unsatisfactory combination of Saturday Live and woman's out and in so doing trespassers on these programs special territories calling from Italy news briefing in the Sky box to the BBC Radio 4 schedule.

It was everything good about radio German snapshot of everything anybody interested you needed to start the news headlines weather newspaper front pages business sport historical perspective and notable forthcoming events in just 15 minutes with the replacement schedule is Dolan ordinary classic case if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Changes to Radio 4 I put a couple of weeks ago.

I had the sad task at breaking the news that point of view that much loved weekly topical sa was ending of last week's there was a flood of complaints about the move but some listeners waste a week to see how they felt when they had its replacement.

Hello.

My name is Jonathan petherbridge from Catford in London I waited until listening to the program.

That's replaced the point of you before dropping you a line while the content dealt with by this week's witness history was quite interesting the style of the new myself only serve to highlight.

How unusual it's predecessor of what we seem to have lost the program and possibly a genre which you into a single voice and invited to sit with a person as they share their opinion with careful argument humour and wit it now I'm not a person organised face a point of you had a spiritual quality that.

Comfortably in Sunday morning slot and the Oasis of calm intelligence will be sorely missed in our house on Christopher from Dundee from narrowly immediately contemporary as suggested by the BBC spokesperson and could be enjoyed more than just once I've often listen to the first broadcast after any questions on a Friday evening and then to the repeat on Sunday morning like reading a good novel.

I enjoyed some things on first hearing that pleasure only other things more probably picked up on the second hearing.

I look forward to a swirl of listener protest which will force the BBC to reconsider and hope that's got the Speedy overwhelming momentum from Haddenham Buckinghamshire when I switched off the dismal substitute for a point of view this morning.

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Episodes in the current series of add to playlist steady stream of comments about add to playlist on Radio 4 which is just finished.

It's series.

It'll be back again at the end of May I say how much they enjoyed the chat between presenters and guests while learning about music.

They probably never have chosen to listen to otherwise the former is pretty straightforward Jeffrey B J and Anna Phoebe are joined by two different positions each week and they had to an ongoing playlist of songs and music the only rule each song or piece of music has to have a link to the one before and so it continues brings together.

It's some obscure parents such as Tchaikovsky and Eminem but hard is all it's such a listener favourite.

I thought it would be worthwhile finding out a bit more from the presenters and Jeffrey I Began by asking the editor Tim Prosser what was the secret sauce for sea?

Music program on a speech radio station we discuss five tracks in each episode what we try to do is get under the body of each track to to unpick how it works what makes such a great song and so we tried to give listeners a new understanding attracts that they might know already in a famous tracks, but they can hear in a new way and also to introduce them something that they don't know as well, so is that kind of mixture which we try to do every week? What's special about playlist is that it's ultimate musical parlour game really in that the presenters in the guests have to find surprising links between very different kinds of music.

So you know we might be going linking from Jimi Hendrix to handle and the link would be the fact that they both lived in the same house in Mayfair hi, I'm Andy Cotgrave from brill near Oxford

Meaning to send a message for a while to celebrate add to playlist it is hands-down my favourite show on Radio 4.

I thoroughly enjoyed hearing the passion expert breakdown and describe so many diverse music study music is a kid it's been a real education and it's the embodiment of the BBC Manchester to inform educate and entertain there is very complimentary a wondering.

Are you conscious of balancing that need to entertain and educate what I've loved from doing the show this past year is the even as a music create.

I learn something new as a music fan.

I learn something new I feel so lucky.

You know to co-presenter alongside Jeffrey and then each week have his to musical expert.

So they really bring in expert knowledge about their given genre and then everything just gets put out on a plate so I feel like it's not really about balance that we definitely balance the kind of tracks and the genres and the and the centre.

Of music that were discussing but it's just about really good curious conversation and that's what the key to it is rather than with lots of going into saying we have to balance opinion everyone's was coming with their own opinion own knowledge, and then we just chat about music and then just dressing up with a bit of harmonic meet the theme of tchaikovsky's andante maestoso from the powder from the Nutcracker ballet.

Lots of energy about it and it does sound relax, but I imagine that there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes choosing the right gas that are going to work well together getting those connect across the different genres in the time periods can we just tell them that process a little deeper? How do you go about making all that work? It's very serious and it's it's

Actually of very isolated work when you're thinking when your own because when you're choosing a track your more, let's go through the rolodex of songs in your own experience and your own head that's the starting point becomes quite a democratic process because we work together so someone put an idea or a number of ideas.

We throw that around we discussed.

We think about what the best fit is and I think that's what gives week's playlist such texture that you're not doing it on your own.

We're having a conversation which is pulling in the same direction together and you get this kind of Mirrors facing one another a real breadth of experiences perspectives that I don't have the Anna has that in might have the producer and that gives the show such energy and such small one person picking on their own and the beauty of this show it is a pre-recorded we get to sit and we deep dive and we can talk about so many we go down rabbit holes and I have to

Jerome weatherald who puts a beautiful edit together and it means you know we can reassure the gas and saying listen, there's no Simon Cowell in the room to trip you up and it's not a music theory test it just busy conversation and actually the joy musicians and composers love talking and celebrating other people's work and you just know that it's going to be edited together into a beautiful gem the time capsule of that conversation butternut squash and it looks like it's not squash and

I've listened to that Cheryl Cole have I ever noticed as Aguero and instruments being played and linking it to Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter I feel like what I love about the show is that deep dive into tracks that I might have a company do you throughout your life your childhood into Adulthood and at the same time then sometimes people bring curveball tracks that you've never heard before so it's this mix of new discoveries as well as deep diving into music that we all know and love that's so interesting that you mention other Aguero because as a listener.

I think that one of the things that's interesting is not just the music but it's also the other things that you learn along the way you know a song that has you say that you've heard you know I've grown up with that song all my life and I didn't yeah.

Yeah exactly is Barry Manilow shop now.

Will we ever listen to Barry Manilow the same way again? I don't know.

So anything is like high up on the list of absolutely this is amazing is a big massive.

My name is Marian Shaw and I live in Cottingham East Yorkshire I absolutely love the programme add to playlist every episode is so brilliant, but I have to say the one on Chopin was so a Christian music has been my and my husband's life.

He played the double bass and later the Fender bass guitar from the age of 15 to 81 when he retired I know I played an instrument but my range of musical taste is wide.

I thought Julian and Eva just virtuosos of their instruments the way they picked up phrases of chopin's music was so moving it really was emotional.

You get too often very different kinds of musicians in the studio at the same time were talking about pieces outside of their comfort zone.

She might have a world-class classical pianist analysing Lady Gaga you know and that's the kind of thing you don't hear or you may have a pop songwriter analysing a Bach prelude you know and that's the kind of you.

Don't hear another programs for your often interesting to you said that they're outside of their own comfort so do you ever find the guest find that particularly difficult well? I think I said thing is that how if they haven't done the show before or after you get some of the nervous because they don't know what to expect it's quite a challenge then having to talk about all these different kinds of sick and it's very spontaneous the conversation so it's not rehearse beforehand.

So they get in the studio.

They not quite sure how it's going to go and they're going to have to perform and demonstrate that.

On their instruments, you know they're playing that little bit of from Britain is toxic on the piano or whatever.

I'm so it's a real challenge for them or listeners contacted us about one particular song Stan by Eminem hello.

My name is Tom Charlotte and I'm from Tufnell Park in North London I wanted to comment on the programme add to playlist the program which brought to the Winifred Atwell Tchaikovsky in Eminem was just a Triumph I actually stopped doing anything else to listen and that's quite a rarity for me.

So thanks.

Hello my Hawking from Winslow in Buckinghamshire what a lovely program.

This is it's wonderful hearing aid companies musicians show their versatility through linked to the most unexpected tracks Ireland elderly listening and hearing Tchaikovsky being linked to Marshall Mathers is just so clever and interesting can we featured tchaikovsky's Nutcracker few times now and add to playlist.

To find out some facts about Tchaikovsky that we hadn't cover before he was a prolific letter writer this got me thinking about songs about writing letters and specifically you don't actually know as a person to a song based on the letters of an obsessive fan, the song is widely regarded as a cautionary fable on the dangers of obsessive and is not without controversy while some were intrigued by the action is actually really upset that you had chosen it because of its violent content.

Are you ever concerned about those kind of choices? We always very sensitive to how we discuss the track and we trying talk about a piece of music from all angles.

You know I'm with the Eminem track it was a hugely influential massive track with a very dark upset.

Object and be very conscious of having to reflect that in the programme you know we said that it was controversial that that it was stealing with dark themes of domestic violence and murder was but it's important for us to talk about that on the show and and not shy away from the dark aspects of music any music full of dark themes from Tosca 22 G Casino and you want to work in its context and discuss its meaning to our audience you know to unpick what this work is trying to do and sometimes and sometimes sometimes a little bit dark and upsetting you ever say no to I guess who wants to choose a certain track that you wouldn't play no music off limits on the ground but sometimes what we trying to do is get a good mix in the program.

So that is not all the same type of pieces one after another so we might say alright.

That's a bit samey or

We've had that already on a different episode or we've had that link before you know it shouldn't be that controversial, but it might turn out to be listener Andy has he thinks that heavy metal music just doesn't appear as much as it should do on add to playlist in a recent episode discussing guns n' Roses Neil brand said his son was play the opening riff on piano my condolences explained Geoffrey and it's not the first time that these smaller sides really jammy out in plenty of comments about this attitude too heavy metal and it feels all the more frustrating because add to playlist celebrate all genres and it feels to be extremely dismissive and patronising for the presenters who otherwise exceptional to have this attitude to Asia of music that has always been made to feel like the outside.

Frustrating because I'm too so Keeley this way there enjoyment and diversity music feel it is ok to rubbish this genre.

Where's the nearest pub and he means you can go and have a chat and talk about music because I'm sure that know the one thing that I would I would not want to happen.

It's for listening to take there's any kind of bias in terms of a personal preferences the one of the glorious things playlist is it really is a fully democratic show in the sense that there's no kind of Cancer or discrimination in terms of high or low good or bad art there a definite opinions and everyone has an opinion is some tracks people like some people don't like I do not like heavy metal there's a few tracks that I'm waiting to crowbar and I'm not say what they are but you know if it's a good track.

It's a good track.

I don't want you to think about we're sitting there watching out.

heavy metal in the next door to give a shoutout to Cerys Matthews as well who presented to play this with Jeffrey when it started and for the first 60 OSO episodes of the day she played a huge part in shaping the show and developing the show and so we're so grateful for her and of course you can listen to all those episodes and on BBC sounds, so what thanks so much to the add to playlist team Tim Prosser and a Phoebe and Jeffrey B for allowing us to look under the bonnet of the programme know we've had a couple of listeners contact us this week with the same question leonora, Wilson from Birmingham and Richard Miller from London

Nikon two pointers finished on Sunday afternoons on Radio 4, where is the run Britain quiz well? I'm very happy to be able to provide a simple answer to anyone who's been missing it.

It will return the same slot on the 11th of May and Stuart Ballantine from Glasgow has this question for the sports team on last Monday's Today programme.

I'm not previously contacted BBC anything at all but today.

I really feel I couldn't work this your pass without some fun nation results from the fixtures in the weekend rugby European champions cup on the Today programme on Monday at around 7:30 a.m.

The weekend rugby matches are summarised as Northampton are the only English team left in the conversation after Saracens Weston seal world.

This is actually quite correct, but it doesn't it to mention that as his team.

That's Glasgow remain in the competition.

Frustrating to hear this sort of lazy and inappropriately angle sensor review being broadcast on the BBC's national flagship radio show I appreciate the presenter and the editorial team and I guess ask them to reflect on their decision conscious or otherwise to describe these rugby results exclusively from an English perspective on what is a national program will hear the response from the sports team noted Northampton as the only English team remaining in the competition, but we acknowledge that Glasgow have all advanced in the European Champions Cup we appreciate the listeners feedback on accurate reporting finally here is a voice note from Paddy from London on a trip being played at the beginning of broad highest the morning after the clocks went forward hello.

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