Re: WBUR & Fresh Air

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

And the 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM Sunday rebroadcast of the first hour of WESUN now 
seems to have been permanently pre-empted by a BBC call-in show. Good LORD is 
the BBC dull! I think the Brits must have conceived it as the antidote to 
radio! Only a very few people in England can be stuffy enough to enjoy that 
arcane nonsense. Do you suppose they think of the BBC as aural medicine? NPR 
shows like TOTN (or WNYC's New York and Co with Richard Lopait) prove that 
public radio call-in shows don't have to be dull. If you listen to many of 
those BBC shows, you get the impression that thoughtful radio has to bore you 
to tears. Well, at least we were spared Judy Swallow as host of The Connection. 
Although I gather that Swallow is a relatively young woman (30ish), she sounds 
as if she's playing the matronly, buxsome schoolmarm from the '30s, ruler in 
hand, scowl permanently emblazoned on her face, ready to deal out a swift rap 
across the knuckles to anybody in the audience who doesn't pay strict attention.
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> At 03:16 PM 5/14/2003, Larry Weil wrote:
> >At 01:02 PM 5/14/03 -0400, Aaron Read wrote:
> >
> >>I just realized that WBUR has been airing the BBC from 1-2pm instead of 
> >>Fresh Air...and that this has been going on for at least a little while 
> >>now, but that Fresh Air was in there at least a few times inbetween the 
> >>war and now...
> >
> >I've also noticed (and been pissed off because) "On The Media" is no 
> >longer on WBUR on Sunday.  Sometimes I catch it on NHPR at 11 AM, but if I 
> >don't I then miss the program.  Is it on WBUR at a different time, or has 
> >it scummed to another hour of BBC programming?
> 
> For that matter, didn't "Whaddaya Know?" used to be on after "Wait Wait 
> Don't Tell Me!" on Saturdays at 1pm?  Their web schedule shows more BBC.
> 
> The website also shows no entry for "On the Media" or "Soundprint" 
> (although I think Soundprint disappeared a while ago) and very surprising 
> they don't list "Living on Earth" on Sunday nights at 11pm (LOE.org says 
> it's then and I remember getting an email newsletter bitching about how 
> WBUR had bumped them from early Sunday morning to a new and equally-lousy 
> time on Sunday night).
> 
> Gone also is the Sunday morning re-broadcast of Weekend Edition Saturday 
> (which I thought was always a dumb idea, but WESAT was their highest-rated 
> show for a long time)
> 
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