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'''''Late Junction''''' is a music programme broadcast on three nights a week by [[BBC Radio 3]]. Billed as "an eclectic mix of world music, ranging from the ancient to the contemporary",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52 |title=BBC Radio 3 website |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> the programme has a wide musical scope. It is not uncommon to hear medieval ballads juxtaposed with 21st-century electronica, or jazz followed by international folk music followed by an ambient track.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction/pip/1sw8t/ Late Junction playlist] and typical example of its diversity.</ref> Each edition of the programme – which normally starts at 23.00 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays – runs for 90 minutes.
'''''Late Junction''''' is a music programme broadcast weekly on Friday nights by [[BBC Radio 3]]. Billed as "Experimental music for adventurous listeners.",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52 |title=BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2020-03-21}}</ref> the programme has a wide musical scope. It is not uncommon to hear medieval ballads juxtaposed with 21st-century electronica, or jazz followed by international folk music followed by an ambient track.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction/pip/1sw8t/ Late Junction playlist] and typical example of its diversity.</ref> Each edition of the programme runs for 120 minutes.


==About==
==About==
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| title=Into bed with Fiona and Verity |publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=19 October 2008 | first=Vanessa | last=Thorpe | date=23 June 2002}}</ref> The first programme was broadcast on 13 September 1999 and produced by [[Antony Pitts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10497886/antonypitts.com/AntonyPittsCV2014.pdf |title=Antony Pitts - curriculum vitae 2014 |publisher=1equalmusic.com |date=2014-06-04 |accessdate=2014-06-04}}{{dead link|date=February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/26/junction.shtml|title=BBC - Press Office - Late Junction celebrates 10th anniversary with special studio concert|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>
| title=Into bed with Fiona and Verity |publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=19 October 2008 | first=Vanessa | last=Thorpe | date=23 June 2002}}</ref> The first programme was broadcast on 13 September 1999 and produced by [[Antony Pitts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10497886/antonypitts.com/AntonyPittsCV2014.pdf |title=Antony Pitts - curriculum vitae 2014 |publisher=1equalmusic.com |date=2014-06-04 |accessdate=2014-06-04}}{{dead link|date=February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/26/junction.shtml|title=BBC - Press Office - Late Junction celebrates 10th anniversary with special studio concert|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>


''Late Junction'' won a [[Sony Radio Awards|Sony gold award]] in 2003 for Music Programming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3012217.stm |title=BBC News |publisher=BBC News |date=2003-05-08 |accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> The comment made at the time was "A radio jewel. Is there a show like this anywhere else in the radio world? Everyone who hears the show falls in love with it. Surprising, revealing, accessible. Brilliantly programmed - a show where the real star is the music."{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}}
''Late Junction'' won a [[Sony Radio Awards|Sony gold award]] in 2003 for Music Programming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3012217.stm |title=BBC News |publisher=BBC News |date=2003-05-08 |accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> The show was described as "A radio jewel. Is there a show like this anywhere else in the radio world? Everyone who hears the show falls in love with it. Surprising, revealing, accessible. Brilliantly programmed - a show where the real star is the music."<ref name="millsbook">{{cite book |last=Mills |first=Peter |date=2012 |title=Media and Popular Music - Media Topics |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pO-qBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA85&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |page=85 |isbn=9780748627493
}}</ref>


The programme's main regular presenters are [[Fiona Talkington]]{{update after|2019|6|9}} and [[Verity Sharp]]. Former presenters include [[Shaheera Asante]] until 2006, and [[Robert Sandall]], until his death from prostate cancer in 2010. Other presenters include [[Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)|Max Reinhardt]], [[Nick Luscombe]], Anne Hilde Neset, [[Jennifer Lucy Allan]], and [[Mara Carlyle]]. While the selection of music to be played in any one programme is the result of a collaboration between producer and presenter, some individual preferences can be detected. Fiona Talkington, for instance, tends to play more conventional jazz and Scandinavian music and Verity Sharp more folk music, especially that featuring fiddle-playing. Nick Luscombe's shows often feature music from Japan.
The programme's main regular presenters are [[Verity Sharp]] and [[Jennifer Lucy Allan]], who alternate as presenters. Before the shift from three 90-minute shows per week to a single two-hour broadcast in late 2019, other regular presenters included the show's founding presenter [[Fiona Talkington]],<ref name="millsbook" /> [[Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)|Max Reinhardt]], [[Nick Luscombe]], [[Anne Hilde Neset]], and [[Mara Carlyle]]. Other former presenters include [[Shaheera Asante]] (until 2006), and [[Robert Sandall]], until his death from prostate cancer in 2010.


While the selection of music to be played in any one programme is the result of a collaboration between producer and presenter, some individual preferences can be detected. Fiona Talkington, for instance, tended to play more conventional jazz and Scandinavian music and Verity Sharp more folk music, especially that featuring fiddle-playing. Nick Luscombe's shows often featured music from Japan.
The show features occasional ''Late Junction Sessions'', where two musicians or groups, from different genres, are introduced and record together, exclusively for Late Junction, for the first time. After broadcast, these sessions are available as a podcast for 30 days.<ref name="Sessions-Podcast">{{cite web|title=Late Junction Sessions - Downloads - BBC Radio 3|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvjr/episodes/downloads|website=BBC|accessdate=15 December 2017}}</ref>


In March 2019, BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey announced that Late Junction is being cut from three episodes a week to a single two hour slot on Fridays from Autumn 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/15/bbc-radio-3-late-junction-carries-john-peel-spirit-into-digital-age|author=Luke Turner|title=The BBC cutting Late Junction is a blow for experimental music |date= 15 March 2019|website=The Guardian}}</ref> More than 500 people from the world of music, including [[Brian Eno]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[Jarvis Cocker]], [[Martin Carthy]] and [[Eliza Carthy]] signed an open letter objecting to the cut.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio 3 cuts threaten musical ecosystem |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/19/radio-3-cuts-threaten-musical-ecosystem |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=24 April 2019 |date=19 March 2019}}</ref>
The show has featured occasional ''Late Junction Sessions'', where two musicians or groups, from different genres, are introduced and record together, exclusively for Late Junction, for the first time. After broadcast, these sessions are available as a podcast for 30 days.<ref name="Sessions-Podcast">{{cite web|title=Late Junction Sessions - Downloads - BBC Radio 3|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvjr/episodes/downloads|website=BBC|accessdate=15 December 2017}}</ref>
In March 2019, BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey announced that Late Junction was being cut from three episodes a week to a single two-hour slot on Fridays from Autumn 2019.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/15/bbc-radio-3-late-junction-carries-john-peel-spirit-into-digital-age|author=Luke Turner|title=The BBC cutting Late Junction is a blow for experimental music |date= 15 March 2019|website=The Guardian}}</ref> More than 500 people from the world of music, including [[Brian Eno]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[Jarvis Cocker]], [[Martin Carthy]] and [[Eliza Carthy]] signed an open letter objecting to the cut.<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio 3 cuts threaten musical ecosystem |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/19/radio-3-cuts-threaten-musical-ecosystem |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=24 April 2019 |date=19 March 2019}}</ref>


==Presenters==
==Presenters==
===Current presenters===
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* [[Fiona Talkington]]
* [[Verity Sharp]]
* [[Verity Sharp]]
* [[Jennifer Lucy Allan]]

===Former presenters===
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* [[Fiona Talkington]]
* [[Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)|Max Reinhardt]]
* [[Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)|Max Reinhardt]]
* [[Nick Luscombe]]
* [[Nick Luscombe]]
* Anne Hilde Neset
* [[Anne Hilde Neset]]
* [[Mara Carlyle]]
* [[Mara Carlyle]]
* [[Jennifer Lucy Allan]]
* [[Shaheera Asante]]
* [[Robert Sandall]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 19:16, 21 March 2020

Late Junction
GenreVarious, Experimental music
Running time120 minutes (11:00 pm – 1:00 am)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 3
Hosted byVerity Sharp
Jennifer Lucy Allan
Recording studioBroadcasting House, London
Original release13 September 1999
Audio formatStereophonic sound
Websitehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52

Late Junction is a music programme broadcast weekly on Friday nights by BBC Radio 3. Billed as "Experimental music for adventurous listeners.",[1] the programme has a wide musical scope. It is not uncommon to hear medieval ballads juxtaposed with 21st-century electronica, or jazz followed by international folk music followed by an ambient track.[2] Each edition of the programme runs for 120 minutes.

About

The programme was created soon after Roger Wright took over as controller of BBC Radio 3, as part of changes with which Wright believed that he was addressing "this feeling people had that they didn't want to put Radio 3 on unless they were going to listen carefully".[3] The first programme was broadcast on 13 September 1999 and produced by Antony Pitts.[4][5]

Late Junction won a Sony gold award in 2003 for Music Programming.[6] The show was described as "A radio jewel. Is there a show like this anywhere else in the radio world? Everyone who hears the show falls in love with it. Surprising, revealing, accessible. Brilliantly programmed - a show where the real star is the music."[7]

The programme's main regular presenters are Verity Sharp and Jennifer Lucy Allan, who alternate as presenters. Before the shift from three 90-minute shows per week to a single two-hour broadcast in late 2019, other regular presenters included the show's founding presenter Fiona Talkington,[7] Max Reinhardt, Nick Luscombe, Anne Hilde Neset, and Mara Carlyle. Other former presenters include Shaheera Asante (until 2006), and Robert Sandall, until his death from prostate cancer in 2010.

While the selection of music to be played in any one programme is the result of a collaboration between producer and presenter, some individual preferences can be detected. Fiona Talkington, for instance, tended to play more conventional jazz and Scandinavian music and Verity Sharp more folk music, especially that featuring fiddle-playing. Nick Luscombe's shows often featured music from Japan.

The show has featured occasional Late Junction Sessions, where two musicians or groups, from different genres, are introduced and record together, exclusively for Late Junction, for the first time. After broadcast, these sessions are available as a podcast for 30 days.[8]

In March 2019, BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey announced that Late Junction was being cut from three episodes a week to a single two-hour slot on Fridays from Autumn 2019.[9] More than 500 people from the world of music, including Brian Eno, Billy Bragg, Jarvis Cocker, Martin Carthy and Eliza Carthy signed an open letter objecting to the cut.[10]

Presenters

Current presenters

Former presenters

References

  1. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. ^ Late Junction playlist and typical example of its diversity.
  3. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (23 June 2002). "Into bed with Fiona and Verity". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
  4. ^ "Antony Pitts - curriculum vitae 2014" (PDF). 1equalmusic.com. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2014-06-04.[dead link‍]
  5. ^ "BBC - Press Office - Late Junction celebrates 10th anniversary with special studio concert". www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ^ "BBC News". BBC News. 2003-05-08. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
  7. ^ a b Mills, Peter (2012). Media and Popular Music - Media Topics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780748627493.
  8. ^ "Late Junction Sessions - Downloads - BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  9. ^ Luke Turner (15 March 2019). "The BBC cutting Late Junction is a blow for experimental music". The Guardian.
  10. ^ "Radio 3 cuts threaten musical ecosystem". The Guardian. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
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