Judith
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Re:VLS prog on Radio Two, thumbs up or down ? - 2004/12/25 09:20
DerekW wrote:
The informal approach worked if you were already into Jake although a more formal structured commentary may have worked better for the general audience.
I agree. I thought the opening of the programme was a bit too fuzzy to catch the attention of newcomers to Jake and his work.
I was particularly pleased that they made a good deal of the
Jake-Georges relationship, personally and professionally, and of
Jake's translating abilities both ways between French and English.
I was also struck by the placing of this programme on Radio 2, but of
the Georges Brassens programme we listened to a few months back on
Radio 4. I felt this one would have been better on Radio 4 as a
follow-up to the GB programme. (But then the link is so clear to those of us who are Brassophiles as well.) Perhaps it is a reflection of the fact that Jake has always been so difficult to place in a music category - (a problem which does not seem to have affected Georges), or of the different places the two artists hold in their nations' consciousnesses - both of which they
commented upon.
I had a bit of a problem with the pub-party-type setting, as I found
that some of the time I was sitting close to the wrong speaker, when a
voice became suddenly inaudible 'on the other side of the room' as it
were. Perhaps alcohol, hearing and poor reception on the radio were
the real problems! I shall have a second listen on the computer.
Judith
Post edited by: Judith, at: 2004/12/25 09:21
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