Bob Draper wrote: >In response to Classic FM the BBC's Radio Three has been accused of >'dumbing down' its schedule to attract listeners. Is this the same Radio Three that I was once alerted at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/realplayer/index.html If so, I must confess to feeling sheepish and humbled on learning that its programming, which I had thought imaginative and innovative, might actually be an example of "dumbing down". Maybe, because of the time zone difference I would wind up listening when its broadcasts were different from those by which its local listeners would judge it, but as one who thought himself familiar w/ most classical "war horses", "chestnuts", and "top 40s, 50s, or 100s) I discovered a large number of new and unfamiliar works being broadcast. Walter Meyer