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BBC sounds music Radio podcasts if you're a regular feedback and I hope you are you moving over the last few weeks feedback has been charting.

You are rising Fury over the switching off of BBC signs for overseas listeners.

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Keep listening this week for a Mattock last minute announcement also Radio 3 presenters on moving around the schedule.

I'll be talking to the new man.

He's bringing us breakfast now.

You may remember back in February I talk to Jackson Radio 3 controller who was responding to a lot of anger from listeners that the 90-minute drama was being axed well.

Good news for fans of longer phone drama Radio 4 has just announced.

It's now going to have a new monthly 90-minute drama and it's clear that the decision was partly the result of listeners reaction including I'm

Your comments to I like talk to Nicola Baldwin from the writers Guild of Great Britain back in February when they were involved in a petition to stop Radio 3 acting no dramas.

Lol so I thought it was like to get her reaction to this latest but here's a quick reminder of your thoughts at the time the has been so much in BBC radio drama over the Decades that belong to Jules on BBC broadcast a little bit more to the shame to lose that it is short-sighted and thank you for one do not only listen to Radio 3.

I move between 34 and the world service but the three programs a checkout in advance a radio for Saturday and Sunday 3 p.m.

Dramas.to 3 Sunday night drama the best of them all this will change anyone's mind at Radio 3.

Please really disappointing to see yet her further retreat from drama.

I thought the drama was at the corner of the BBC and now we are faced with a much reduced offer.

I think this is a mistake as it's a month the best sand off um just the best Drama available on BBC the opportunities that presents to new and existing Talent the fraction of the cost television drama and not something to be thrown away like please reconsider its decision Nicola thank much for coming back to feedback at the last time I spoke to you at the end of February you had a petition with a reminder think 10000 names on it.

We also got a lot of list of comments here.

I wonder if that influence the outcome.

You must be very happy with it absolutely delighted and I think it didn't fluence the outcome and it's certainly delighted everybody who is involved in campaign because I think a lot of people at the same time realise how much they enjoyed radio drama and I'm so separate to the campaign is that mean you about lots of?

Papers as well, I think the cumulative pressure of that the cumulative voices of that had an effect listeners.

Tell us some times that they feel that doesn't listen to the BBC has said that the new 90-minute drama slot on Radio 4 is the result of consultation with the audio drama sector they don't say that they listen back as well, but I hope that they do is so it does sound as if the work that you've done has actually created this result.

I think the work that we've done house, but I also think that one of the things.

I hope you made it clear in the campaign was the people who are making radio drama at the BBC of fantastic and we also are hoping that going forward channel for communication have been open there been open through turbulence, but I'm sure they want to make strong as much as right as do so I think the combination of both sides.

Realising what we wanted to fight for and what we had to lose potentially other launch was announced at the BBC audio drama awards ceremony at the end of March will you tell that was going to happen? We were told in advance.

It was probably going to happen.

It hasn't been fully confirmed and we were able to reassure our committee and members.

It was a lot of people who are planning to boycott the awards was also people who are planning to maybe have individual protest about it at the awards and so it was nice to be able to sit there and it was like to sit there and just enjoy your so lovely night.

I felt because there was a sense of against All Odds and against bucking the trend everywhere there wasn't a bad as it was a good one.

I should save cos we would still love Radio 3 and time to reintroduce drama and and that that something that we hope will happen but for now the addition of 12 boxes.

Is quite a long time to listen the lot of people listening to Radio listen while they are perhaps in the car or cooking or doing something else in the dog answer.

I wondered do you think that the use of BBC signs people will come back to these traumas or do they tend to listen all in one go do you know anything about the listening to people? I do know something that are listening happiness, and I think a lot of people do come back and listen later.

I think they might look at the beginning of it and then listen to the whole thing and a lot of people will not listen.

Set the timer goes out that said there are many instances not done it myself with knowing there's something.

I really want to listen to and making time to do so and of course goes very well with doing other things as interesting as not that's Radio 4 is reintroducing this 90-minute drama at a time when perhaps our attention spans are giving

Water Elsewhere and we're listening to things that just second song on tiktok or maybe a podcast at half an hour long so a 90-minute dramas an interesting introduction.

Isn't it? It's so funny and interesting introduction and I can see implicitly in your question that it's like why they doing this now that the 90 minutes lot historical Radio 3 was not always single drama.

That was many occasions where it was a compilation of more experimental writing by writers to make up a 90 minutes.

Lot something else is also a lot of people who individually got in touch during the campaign of said that before people live outside London for people who might not be able for various reasons to go to the theatre the fact that the 90 minutes lot includes adaptation to stage plays their right as ourselves would prefer older original commissions of course but those adaptation to stage plays are lovely to enjoy in the 90s.

So people whether that's students or individual listeners to be able to enjoy at home and I think as the BBC charter is going to be starting.

It's renewal face and soon.

It's important not to forget that tradition of being able to make culture available.

I remember when I spoke to you before you said that Radio 3 allies for a different platform for drama by it's being inserted in between music and that gives a different feel to the drama sometimes.

I wonder will writers write different drama for Radio 4.

It's going into a speech radio station that very often has a lot of news and current affairs around does it mean is that something that writers take into account when they are pitching or writing drama for a 90-minute.

Yes, I think I've gone so I think you do take that into account and that's one of the reasons.

Why we hope that in Time Radio 3 will introduce to young but because it is a different makes it is more musical is a different kind of

Nicola Baldwin coach of the writers Guild of Great Britain audio committee, who is clearly heartland by this announcement will find out a bit more about what we can expect I asked Alison Hindi Radio 4 commissioning editor for drama and fiction why they made this decision to have a 90-minute monthly slot on Radio 4 we know there's a Desire within the industry opportunities for long-form audio drama and we had already been considering ways of responding to this before Radio 3 made its recent announcement, so I would just like to thank everyone is engaged with around our plan really appreciate it and we were really pleased to be able to announce that the audio drama Awards recently that we will launch a monthly 90minut.pl on Radio 4 starting later in the spring response to the drama going from Radio 3 from those in the industry, but also from loads of listeners here on feedback.

How did that influence the decision?

Ongoing conversation well as Nicola says it's come about through the combination of the campaign and listening reaction working with asset Radio 4 to realise our desire to increase the number of already programmed we were pleased to have a positive reaction from from across the industry and from listeners to our announcement, but I'd like to say how grateful we are to those who shared their time and engage with constructively around our plans with really appreciated that engagement and it's wonderful for me actually as the commissioner of audio drama to see such enthusiasm and support for the often can go little on song and I have the opportunity to create and Curate a new regular stand on Radio 4 which doesn't happen often listeners me if their comments actually make any difference you know if they write in and say we really would love to hear more drama or the bosses listening and does that make a different to your order.

So, can I ask you in this case didn't make a difference to you that you know lots of people are on feedback saying they were missing this drama and did that help in your decision to put more drama on Radio 4.

I would say we do listen to what listeners have to say both fire feedback and through other ways that in which listeners communicate with us.

We also were listening of the sea to the professionals in the industry to make the radio drama.

So I think I would say that has helped us come to this decision now.

I knew that a lot of what's to come is in the planning stage got blisters.

Will have had the trial for fever with Cate Blanchett that's going to be broadcast over Easter weekend and I know that was already scheduled before this decision is the idea actually came from case for self.

Yes, it did I mean we were thrilled when I threw her director approached us saying she was very interested in making a performance of this play.

She has done very little audio drama in the past so it was exciting and when somebody of that calibre and Talent approaches in you take their proposition seriously also said that in cement review she's giving recently that she might be giving up acting entirely so if you got to Justin time, I saw that with some surprised.

I would say I hope stop acting because I think she's installing a really talented and unusual actor but if she does I'm very glad we got it before she gave it up so I wonder if solicitors can expect something different from a radio for 90 minutes rather than they were used to on Radio 3.

I was interested to hear what Nicola had to say about how she thought the musical contact number Radio 3 informed where you listen to drama on that channel because I think it's not only the platform, but it's also the time of day so the Radio 4 slot will be on Saturday afternoon predominantly.

Very different moods and energy that time of day to listen to on a Sunday evening, but of course these days a lot of listening Is On Demand will choose the program they want to hear without the context divide music all speech content sat there listening to something in isolation.

Can you tell us anything about the dramas that you have commissioned or any of them in the pipeline yet? Well, we are still around the original writing to write and then produce a full-length play so in the first year.

We will be concentrating on stage.

Please kind to the second year.

We would hope that is an original new writing included that stage 2 I can't tell you specific type of right now, but I can tell you there will be some great award-winning players that you can hear and I hope you have a fantastic range.

It's interesting because in the news recently there has been talked about high regional Productions have actually fallen in local theatres so actually this really maybe away.

People to listen to Long form drama, if they're not able to actually go and see a play locally yes and actually to be fair Radio 3.

I think that is what their dramas sort has done over the years is take stage players that are a hit mercy in London or in the place of their production and broadcasting to the rest of the country which is very democratic thing to do and I certainly hope we would continue with some of that but particularly in the light of the reduction in new programming in theatres over the last 10 years and arrange a different reasons our responsibility and I'll role as the sea I think all the greater to bring some great drama to an audience who is not necessarily seeing it in their local theatre anymore to the same extent even got two shorter attention spans and I wonder if you thinking that people are going to listen to this and bite sized chunks on signs or do you actually think that there is Market

Longer a 90-minute listening experience it seems the same question isn't it? Yeah, so apparently we are all short of attention span these days.

I think I would say the back against that is the evidence that people if they're engaged will listen at Great lengths to a whole series of of podcast programs that in a range of genres so if something grab your attention well enough and strong enough and you have time to give to it.

Of course.

I think people will stay with longer listening Alison handle.

Thank you very much indeed.

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That number again 0345 you can also send an email to feedback at bbc.co.uk and is at BBC R4 feedback on social media and we really do read or listen to Every message that you sent this week's feedback seems to be about a lot of changes been moving around a Radio 3 in the past couple of weeks to Petroc Trelawny has gone from Breakfast to intune at 5 replacing Sean Rafferty who left at the end of last year has taken over Radio 3 breakfast.

He's a well-established presenter on the station.

He's been regular voice of Sunday breakfast and classical life I spoke to Petroc on feedback.

Just on his final breakfast Roadshow in August last year so that we should find out a bit more about Tom McKinney so there's a huge privilege a huge on as a lifelong Radio 3 listening.

Get the chance to start the day with you and breakfast 3 hours of beautifully curated music put together by the team here in Salford listeners often dislike any change to a much-loved program maybe because petrol head up the move so expertly it sounds like Radio 3 breakfast audience are adjusting well to the change of personnel.

Hello Sally manocchio, Canterbury I was really dreading Petroc Trelawny is departure from breakfast.

I confess I haven't been a regular listener since the change however Tom McKenna very rude and making his own especially with the lovely birdsong opening this morning dawn chorus, so it's the flight goals of a common Snipe Andalucia but still quite common and widespread bird.

That's brilliantly camouflaged and often completely invisible in marshes and dogs.

Helen island, Leamington Spa sound of a snipe followed by a song from story for cello ensemble, it would only be radio three breakfast.

Petroc Trelawny is a hard act to follow as host but thanks to Tom McKinney for continuing the mixture good music information and humour and also for his daily dawn chorus to restore well-being after the news headlines.

This is Julian Sedgwick near Ely in Cambridgeshire I just a word about changes at Radio 3.

What's my wife when I am very sad to see Petroc Trelawny leave breakfast surely one of the country's best broadcasters atomic and he is a very welcome and worthy replacement so it's Monday the 7th of April Willow Warblers are back in the UK after a winter in sub-saharan.

No matter what's happening with the weather whenever I hear this song like instantly feel warm.

Is it feels to be doing the the Breakfast Show in a lifelong listening to the radio 3 so to be doing it and everyday is comfort pinching myself moment first week with a slight out of body experience because it's been 18 months in the planning to get to this point to be honest to finally do it was actually happening now.

I'm not entirely sure it is let's just go with it a week to is becoming.

You are established voice on Radio 3 but your introduction to radio I believe was because of birds that's right the first program.

I made was about birdsong it with a friend of mine who produces 5 Live who was asked to make a program for Radio 3 and I was kinda classical music by that she knew so she asked me if I write the Script economy who is the presented with in the end turned out that I record billing PSY presented it and then I don't know a few days either side of recording that so an email from the BBC Philharmonic which said they were looking for a present concerts on radio 3 from the bridgewater hall in Manchester and I don't think if I done that recording of this birds on program.

I would have actually gone for it, but in the end idea that I applied this was back in 2012 Friday sent in for MP3 files of me introducing pieces of music of my own choice and ended up getting her a chance to do it live which was first one.

This seems to be the serendipity dented the fact that you brought birdsong back to the airwaves with that start to the day of the daily dawn chorus Friday is a bit of an experiment when I was presenting Sunday breakfast over the previous 12-months it went down so well people were saying we'd love to hear more of this without the heat for longer.

What a great way to start the day, so we thought might just bring it to the weekdays and so far I mean the the responses we've had a just been overwhelmingly positive it seems as though people really enjoy.

This is a way to start the day professor of guitar and you've been teaching it for sometime you organise concert Sheeran divided.

Are you going to have the energy to keep doing all of that and all these early starts? I've kept the Northern College of Music I kept that I still run O2 concert series at kettle's yard, Cambridge but yeah, I kept that but the other things I was doing that the lot of other kind of music.

And dealing with artist that has unfortunately had to be shelved because I just I would probably just fall flat in my face the end of the week.

Otherwise I did you end up playing classical guitar cos I know you come from a music loving family but your dad played in a punk band.

I think and your mum was a Black Sabbath van, so it doesn't really fit in my mind with you picking up a classical.

What is the kid? Yeah the other important musical influences my grandfather who is a committed Radio 3 listening.

You would never move the dial off Radio 3 now.

I thought about my mother listening to all the Osborne you must have been horrified, but yeah, I think I was introduced to us musical outsiders, so my dad was a punk band was really into Black Sabbath felt like real outside and I think I was attracted to the classical guitar as an outsider instruments in the classical music world that really appeal to me also did the music that.

Play the classical guitarists if you're playing an orchestral instrument you tend to just focus on those European composers from 100 to 100 years ago.

Where's the classic guitar hours straight away and stop playing music for Brazil in a Spanish folk songs music that was much broader in its scope than kind of friends of mine who were playing traditional kettle instrument.

I found that really appealing right from the start actually well.

I know it's early days for this new show but what are your hopes for it? I'll regular listeners going to see changes.

Will it get a make any makeover well? That's the main thing was everybody wants to know before 7 because that was a big thing that people just love tune into Petroc to hear that we play some music by Johann Sebastian Bach before the 7 news that stain we have the bird song feature beautifully curated classical music we're not reinventing the wheel and that way.

I think the only time.

I loved the idea of introducing lots of new releases.

We had phone and I've just come off air.

Add for new releases for new albums this morning.

I love the idea of giving young artists the chance of a leg up and kind of working on the friends as well.

I really like the chance of you bringing them in too much bigger than they might get a chance to usually have the musical to that really appeals to me because you know I did it myself.

I worked as a Performer myself for many years and I know you when you get a mention on Radio 3 it really helps you get a real ripple of excitement around you so if I can get any help to any kind arising star musicians always trying to do that as well as our regular listeners to the program and don't listen to Radio 3.

They might still have heard your name Benjamin because you've been promoted at the end of the day for a g a little bit and I wonder if there appears to be a kind of a crossroads.

There are people who have had their using speech and might not want to put the music.

Yes, I think so we always try and play something kind of the stars of 9 am aware that you know thanks.

Very grateful to you today programme team for mention is so we always trying to do our best to live up to Expectations by plane what we would call an absolute banger at about 9, so when people they will get something probably familiar in a really really top-notch recording and then hopefully they'll stick with us and that's when will pop in the surprises then you know it because it said that the program is all about a mix of familiar favourites and pop in and these surprises all the way as well.

That's the thrill of a putting his breakfast running orders together is and how can we take by surprise and how can we give them real Family Favourites as well? That's our challenge as well as to find that balancing that that flow every morning to make that work right so make any have slipped Bangers radio.

Thank you very much indeed congratulations on the new role, and thank you for coming onto feedback.

No thanks.

No thanks.

I know this program started with a story that was a success for listening.

And there's more the week sleeping something else comments and questions for round the world about the future of BBC sounds overseas is obviously caused a lot of distress for many who depends on that connection to home as you've been telling feedback over the last 6 weeks the plans and understand the BBC press release at the end of February wear for it to happen in the spring which is a course night and for only Radio 4 on the BBC World Service to be made available in future via a new app.

That's beans all the other BBC stations would no longer be alone feedback Radio Wales listeners in Patagonia told us what it would mean to lose access to Welsh programming and listeners across Ireland shared their worries that they would lose access to my Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle programming and even their concerns that this was a breach of the Good Friday Agreement and many listeners across the world were up in Arms about missing out on BBC Sports coverage.

Finally after weeks of asking I can bring you an update and I have to say it sounds like good news.

We got this from the BBC just a few minutes recording this week's feedback BBC Studios launch.

The new audio service on BBC.com earlier this year which in turn means that we will be closing BBC sounds outside the later this year in parallel.

We are working on plans to continue to make other BBC stations available for listeners outside the UK on alternative platforms rising those markets, where demand is highest this includes to be received music stations BBC Radio 1 Radio 2 and Radio 3 6 Music 1Xtra and the Asian Network as well as the BBC stations from around the nations and regions including local radio.

We will not close BBC sounds outside the UK until.

Zombies plants it will take a bit more time before we have a clear update when we do.

We will have someone come on feedback and talk to listeners about it.

Just to confirm that is a delay until later this year not spring to the switch off of signs internationally and the promise that it won't happen until alternative platforms for the other domestic have been arranged I can promise that feedback will keep on top of this but I'm very glad that for now listeners have contacted us come across the world and very close to home with real concern about losing access to much-loved programming can take a breather well.

Hopefully this gets sorted out a little ray of Easter sunshine.

Thank you for all your thoughts and questions of future of BBC signs on indeed everything else do keep them coming but that's all for today from me and all the team here.

Thank you so much for listening and giving us your feedback.

I'm David Dimbleby and from The History podcast and BBC Radio 4.

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