can't wait!

oh yes

It looks like you can listen to the show all week after it airs too. Gonna try now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ptsk3

I preferred the talk segments to the music. Jarvis is a damned good interviewer.

hi, has anyone recorded the first show or knows where to download it?

Hello everyone!
Have been listening to the shows and I have to say they are becoming very addictive!
I love the poetry reading and all, very nice.

I love listening to Jarvis read too. His voice is so soothing to listen to. I think he should do some audio books. I am trying to record a lot  of the reading he has done on his program and make a cd of them.

-- Edited by symphonie on Saturday 6th of February 2010 12:35:12 PM

Sadly, BBC is making the cut backs to kowtow to private corporate interests:

The proposals appear to be calibrated to appease the BBCs rivals in various markets. Broadcasters such as ITV and Channel 4 will be heartened by the corporations pledge to reduce teen programming and to scale back on its bidding for hit American shows.

Huh? Releasing the youth market to the vultures? Is this a good strategy? Let's consider.

Absolute Radio(aka Virgin Radio, aka TIML Radio Ltd)  is signalling that they may purchase 6Music. Will they change it?

Clive Dickens, COO Absolute Radio
The passion that were seeing from listeners shows theres nothing wrong with the station, its just been overfunded. It would stand a better chance of succeeding if it was run commercially.

What does it mean to 'run [it] commercially'? Adding adverts? That's mostly harmless, right? But advertisers inevitably start dictating programming. So there is a question of integrity: will Absolute Radio put quality before profitability?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but my impression is that the UK has a thriving music cultural industry in large part due to the BBC. Consider their mission:

 

The BBCs mission is to inform, educate and entertain. Under the terms of the Charter and Agreement, through its output, the BBC must promote the following six public purposes.

• stimulating creativity and cultural excellence
• representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities
• sustaining citizenship and civil society
• promoting education and learning
• bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK
• helping to deliver the benefits of emerging communications technologies and services

These are the interests of an organization that is driven by cultural value rather than profit. Programs like Jarvis' Sunday Service can play odd, challenging music even though it may not be popular, because it reflects the cultural mission of the BBC.

What about Absolute Radio? What is their mission/ goals/ public policy? I search for about an hour and found no public statement of goals. I did, however, find out that they are slavishly obsessed with measuring and reporting the success of their brand and their peak listenership.

Jarvis' program might survive the intense scrutiny of the profit motive only because of his celebrity appeal. A lesser-known DJ would likely be pushed out for playing such challenging music.

By turning over control of the youth market to private radio, the BBC is likely shutting independent music out of the broadcast spectrum. You'll still get some exposure to the quasi-indie NME darlings of the day, but it will all be quite predictable and milquetoast.

Or I could be wrong.

-- Edited by Fuss Free on Saturday 27th of February 2010 05:28:38 PM

The show's been a bit boring the past few weeks, but today when I tuned in I noticed it had an uncharacteristic energy... then I realized that Jarvis was late for his own program (forgot to turn his clock forward?!) and a substitute DJ was covering for him.



In its way, it was classic Jarvis.