Sunday Miscellany, Radio One

Plowman

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deadhead13

It's very hit and miss. Too many overly sentimental descriptions of mundane events.

dixierip

I enjoy Sunday Miscellany. Maybe I'm in the minority but I think its worthwhile.

Leper

I like Sunday Miscellany. In fact it is seldom that I miss the programme. The format is excellent and should be left as it is.

Furthermore, the Sunday Miscellany books are excellent and a proud addition to my permanent library.

dave4565

It should be called let my neighbours know where i went on my holidays after i played with my local gaa team while listening to classical music and reading poetry and throw in a few unpronounceable names while you are at it

Oops69

The quality of the contributions has deteriorated over the last 5 years and music is now more middle brow , in addition too much time before the programme with news and the papers and how you can listen to the programme on x, y,z etc. Etc
The one successful producT RTE have and they fcuk it up .

bobbyss

I usually avoid this programme. It has been running since 1900. It is tired. It is tiring. Uninteresting. I always feel the contributions are very middle class and you were always going to hear about Colonels and India and there was always something about the Church of Ireland on it. Sometimes I think I hear people telling a story but with a bit of a posh English accent.

However, it must have a steady audience so I'd like to know about those figures.

Time for a change of mood.

dave4565

I always wonder about audience figures as it is done by a online poll where anyone can join so if for instance you are a large organisation and all your employees and family join you could in theory skew the figures

yiddo59

dave4565 wrote: »

I always wonder about audience figures as it is done by a online poll where anyone can join so if for instance you are a large organisation and all your employees and family join you could in theory skew the figures

Last time I looked it was in the top 20 most listened to programmes and has about 250k listeners according to JNLR so would need a lot of friends and relations

dave4565

They must do it in percentages i don't think jnlr would have 250k people taking part

la ultima guagua

As with so much these days, things just are not what they used to be.

Anyone remember when Ben* and Sam* would each contribute a piece to nearly every program ?

It used to be very, very good listening



*-Ben Kiely & Sam McAughtry

bobbyss

la ultima guagua wrote:

As with so much these days, things just are not what they used to be.

la ultima guagua wrote:

Anyone remember when Ben* and Sam* would each contribute a piece to nearly every program ?

I do remember them but am afraid to say I found one as tedious as the other. Kiely was vaunted as having a great radio voice and Sam was supposed to be dead witty. However neither appealed to me.

L1011

dave4565 wrote: »

They must do it in percentages i don't think jnlr would have 250k people taking part

The JNLR is a survey from which statistics are generated and then based against a population figure.

bobbyss

There is too much droning on. Too much reading from a script. Very little spontaneity or none at all. It's like Lyric on one of its bad programmes.

constitutionus

yiddo59 wrote: »

Last time I looked it was in the top 20 most listened to programmes and has about 250k listeners according to JNLR so would need a lot of friends and relations

I'd well belive the 250k fig as there are enough people in this country actually working on a sunday to support that ,and thats before you get to the people up cooking breakfast for their family which is where i first came upon the programe.

i always tune in to the theme tune as it takes me right back to my childhood when my father did so.

theres also another reason for its figs.

up to this year there was nothing, i mean nothing up against on the talk radio front till newstalk slapped bobby kerr into a show at the same time.

so it was listent to sunday miscellany or some bloody Ted talk/repeat.

be interesting to see its figs now.

Harry Angstrom

constitutionus wrote: »

i always tune in to the theme tune as it takes me right back to my childhood when my father did so.

Same here.

Del.Monte

I grew up with Sunday Miscellany on in the background and it still reminds me of happier times. That said, these days it seems to be more and more southside, middle class women trying to outdo each other with stories of foreign holidays and throwing in historical references....awful muck. Today's show is three items in - all women - or is it the same woman (?). All highfalutin stuff and sounding like they were written as a project by the same person. Off it goes!

Oops69

The programme is appalling This morning, a guy with a bad speech impediment dictating a piece of prose is really out of order for gods sake .
The ‘recorded live ‘shows are crap usually .

Max Prophet

Is this shoite still going ?

Oops69

awful show this morning , silly chatter and unintelligibility , speech impediments and pointless musings , apart from one segment about Thomas Mann , the producer / editors need to do a mercy killing on this show , a bit like the late late show .

Brendan Bendar

I'll sit on the fence, agree and disagree.

Yes it needs a kick up the hoop with a tan deck shoe.

But it sometimes comes up with good stuff for that time of week and day.

It's something one might listen to with 'half an ear' and I expect it kind of suits the time slot.

Needs to get rid of the serial contributer and try for some fresh stuff.

Doodah7

I used to love this programme but it has gone very much down hill in recent times. Most of the content now seems to be dross knocked up in some Southside Creative Writing classes. I'm sure most of it is sent in unsolicited but the show is in desperate need of a strong editor.

Wombatman

While I agree with most of the comments above, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Worryingly, sports shows aside, it's arguably the best show in the top 30.

http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/radio/102936-jnlr-2017q1-top-30-and-station-programmes

humberklog

BB has it spot on- out with the serial navel gazers.

"Fresh writing and writers needed- those with tales of their Camino trip or granny's oyster shucking knife need not apply."

kneemos

Badly written floury prose and the lord help us attempts at poetry is all I remember of it from years back.
Apparently it hasn't improved.

bobbyss

And irrelevant stuff too. Letter from Lesotho or somewhere. Not engaging. Dull.

Muscles Schultz

50 years and going strong !

Brendan Bendar

kneemos wrote: »

Badly written floury prose and the lord help us attempts at poetry is all I remember of it from years back.
Apparently it hasn't improved.

Plain or self-raising? :cool:

Oops69

Muscles Schultz wrote: »

50 years and going strong !

not really , almost a dead horse being flogged , it could be good.

Brendan Bendar

Oops69 wrote: »

not really , almost a dead horse being flogged , it could be good.

Yes, like a lot of things on RTÉ R1 needs a good shake up, Jaysus,some people would still want the Kennedys of Castlerosse on at 1300.

Stir the forking pot now and again surely....!

mzungu

Always enjoy this show. Some contributions might not be up to par every now and then, but overall, it's gentle Sunday morning listening.

Some good music featured today. The opening segment about miners was given a great closing with Woodie Guthrie's "Miners Song."

I also liked the final story of the Mum doing her household chores at night and the thoughts that she pondered over while doing so. Finishing with Mama Case' "Dream a Little Dream of Me" was a delightful way to sign out.

mzungu

Good show this morning.

The Luke Kelly story was good.

Professor Genius

I still like it