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Thanks to one of the BBC's latest offerings, please do stay awake though for the next half hour to hear why the BBC's recent coverage of the Farmers inheritance tax has exercise many listeners and hi John Wilson's recent chat with honey Karachi has become our latest nomination for interview of the year on BBC sounds and on your smart speaker is Radio 3 unwind you may well.

I've had the Promotion for Radio 3 on wind there has been plenty of it.

It launched earlier this month along with radio One's anthems.

It's got.

Schedule a roster of presenters which includes Edith Bowman formerly of Radio 1 and 6 Music and the Icelandic composer Oliver Arnold's but is it a radio station well? No, it's a streaming service available on BBC signs and on smart speakers, but not on digital or radio as the name suggests on wind.

It's a calming mix of classical music the BBC press release claims.

It's going to enhance well-being and help escape the pressures of daily life here are some of your comments.

This is James from Inverness I wanted to write to say how immersed have ordered come with BBC Radio 3 unwind with a really broad and moving playlist the new station helps it at work after work in the early mornings and getting to sleep have been excited about her Radio 3 extra idea for a while and wind hasn't disappointed this channel is very timely for those of us who want to avoid the news headlines and become congratulations BBC and thank you.

Hello, my name is Hannah Davidson and from Stirling I am a self-confessed bad sleeper and I'm normally a fan of the sleeping forecast to help me fall asleep 150 miles west of Rocco 1021 X Factor tracks on BBC Radio 3 on mind and it's another fantastic program for helping with sleep last night even if you don't fall asleep.

You can lie in bed and pretend.

You're in the middle of a forest listen to the sounds of the birds and the music and it does eventually help me fall in deep sleep.

My name's Chris Todd and I live in Manchester the BBC is newly launched 3 online service is useful innovation opportunity to play soothing sleepy sounds all night long is offered by the program and it's very welcome.

Call Sam Jackson controller of radio 3 is here with me night to discuss Radio 3 unwind welcome back to feedback Sam thanks for having me again and let me ask you a question first if I could Radio 3 on wind is not a channel is not a podcast.

It's a 24/7 stream.

Can you just explain exactly what that means and for anyone who doesn't know it? I would they get it.

It's available on BBC sounds so anybody who has access to BBC listen to it a free.

That's was part of the licence fee BBC sounds very using to download if you don't already have it and it's at the top next to Radio 3.

So you can listen on the sound or if you have a smart speaker you can ask it to play Radio 3 on wind and then you will get that constant stream of classical music so you can hear it all the time everywhere.

On everything except the radio indeed and we're hoping that in due course.

We will be given permission by Ofcom to launch Radio 3 on wind as a radio station on digital radio for a good morning.

I'm Gillian Harrison from Sudbury in Suffolk it is a good morning for me as I just had the best night sleep for many years Seuss by the new radio station.

We love the idea of people using this music to aid sleep and their well-being but we also won't Radio 3 on wine to be a station that is people to classical music that takes them on out on a journey of Discovery around new repertoire of new artists that they may not be familiar with and we would like them to see this as part of their listening from the BBC with a regular companion to people if they choose to listen as they go to sleep.

That's great if that's for them, but absolutely we we see a role for this stream.

In people's lives right the way through.

Night some you won't be surprised that certain radio critics won't very keen on this calming mindfulness much was the Telegraph headlines UK from classic FM and I've been to you before and listeners have commented before the Radio 3 was being done down and turned into classic FM without the ads in the past you were always able to argue about the high quality of centres the amazing live performances all of that and it should be this stream as well with it is rather difficult for you to argue that you haven't I just created classic FM relax with like I don't think that's the first summary of it and I'll tell you why the music that we're playing is utterly different to what you would hear on Classic FM or indeed on any other commercial station.

Ok, so I'm literally 1002 playlist that you can download from Spotify any other platform you can search those words in a calm mindfulness well-being so when you

BBC and Ofcom to allow you to stream this in the first place and I know know that your night going one step further and you would like to get this as a radio station were you arguing them the distinctiveness that you were offering and at the BBC always had to offer was was what was music that you can't get on a regular Spotify playlist distinctiveness in many different forms, so it's about music that is not played on other UK radio stations is about support for the recorded music industry, so we have said example the major on playing recordings released in the last 10 years as a way of really supporting the industry, but also up-and-coming artists who very often will now be getting their first radio play on Radio 3 on wine who is about repertoire is about artists is also about the kind of speech content that sits alongside the music so if you look at what we're doing weird.

I was on a weekday morning Dr Sian Williams is a psychologist church in works in the NHS in the field of mental health trauma and she brings with her broadcasting a huge knowledge whole area of mental health and well-being and again.

You don't get bad from my Spotify playlist Butlins alasdair Gill from Glasgow has been in touch on the subject of presenters.

This is definitely a step in the right direction of largely dispensing with the factors patronising and comments used by Nando's paid ones to filled pauses between pieces of music listeners really prize the knowledge and engagement of Radio 3 presenters, who is Alistair Wright should those listers be concerned that this is an experiment that might end up with much less present involvement across Radio 3.

I think the role of the presenter is a really really.

Context that another human being can give you on the music being played the way in which they can illuminate what you're listening to I think that's one of the real beauties of radio in all its forms.

What kind of radio you choose to listen to and the whole point of Radio 3 on wine is that it's intended to complement Radio 3 the main station.

This is not an either-or you earlier Andrea the Telegraph piece that run on the very first day where a critic clearly felt that after resting and the station he was able to form a view on on the entire offer is concerning that piece was around Radio 3 then becoming a home of what he called chill out classical is literally the opposite is about having more classical music from the BBC and I think the role of the centre within that is a very important one on this stream online even a presenter like Edith Bowman who is such a wealth of knowledge on cinematic soundtracks.

Did you have to have conductors and composers to Hollywood she hardly speaks compared to what you was here on Radio 3 with you.

I think it's early days and we working with all the presenters and producers with a teams on how the stream should sound we were very aware when launching it that one of the beauties of this offer is its simplicity is about the music first and foremost.

We deliberately paid back for Radio 3 on wine.

I'm completely willing to accept that we may need to give a little more context.

We may need to involve easier than others more isn't working and that's why feedback from the audience.

It is really helpful and understanding what they want from the BBC what are coming to Radio 3 at mine for your feedback has been a b promise of using classical music to unwind because many listeners instead say that it should be there to stimulate I'm go fishing ski in St Leonards-on-Sea seems to me.

To be reinforcing the Trout the classical music is boring it sends you to sleep and it's for background noise, where's the music for enlivens excites and makes you think absolutely I agree that classical music should stimulate it should excite it shouldn't vote every human emotion and it does and that's why I love classical music because it can lift it can challenge stretch you can make you feel every single motion Under the Sun I think we also need to acknowledge that countless studies over many years have demonstrated that are into classical music for many is to remove is to music that helps me focus or helps me on wind helps me relax and to ignore that would be churlish is not to say the classical music is it can only do that one thing but it is about saying we've knowledge the needs dates of the listeners in the roots into classical music of which there are many and if we can offer.

Bo3 unwind as another routing.

That's a really good thing for classical music and it's a good thing for the licence prepare because they get more value from the BBC news from South Suffolk directions to the new channel is it must be using funds which could be used for Radio 3 for example more live concerts outside broadcast breakfast programme weeks and more documentaries and that is a fair point for me if we could use all of that money serving the same audience that we currently have and so the decision that we may do we do that or do we look at protecting that budget and still doing everything that we do on Radio 3 right now whilst also offering something different the people who might not use to listen to Radio 3 but would listen to Radio 3 unwind we will continue to do all of the live broadcast the concert the Opera of the Proms and everything else on Radio 3.

It's not the one.

Away from the other.

It's that they can sit alongside each other and the collectively there is a greater classical music offer from the BBC as a result you're not doing this really for the heart Radio 3 listeners at all in fact presumably would be delighted to get listeners even consider tune into Radio 3 what you're trying to do is create a digital access point for people hope all subscribe to the BBC I think this could be a reason for people who when they finished listening to the Today programme they had their news fix and they're looking for something else.

I absolutely love the idea of them coming Radio 3 on wine or indeed to essential Classics on Radio 3 to having that choi's.

I think that there's nothing to be ashamed about when it comes to saying we want to offer people eat in and I would agree with you.

Call Music and forever reason you don't want to listen to the jazz program all the drama of the concert at the interview that we doing on the main station what you now have is an alternative place where you can go and enjoy the classical music with you and how's the stream going.

I mean one thing we know as well.

It's much easier to know almost immediately how many people are tuning in you're not didn't have to wait for quarterly.

Are you happy with that? We are missing some really interesting signs at the moment so we see for example at 9 in the morning quite a significant uplift.

I think people are coming across that was wondering if that's it today.

I think I think it probably is and that's a great thing because it means that way we giving people something else when you've had that news fix as I say then I'm coming into Radio 3.

We're also seeing particularly welcome numbers on a Sunday is very very early days, but I think that plays to the idea that Sunday feels a little bit different for people it tends to be a day.

Wind down in inverted commas the only been we're always busy as we are on a Saturday but Sunday just feels a little different quite a lot of people so we seen some welcome signs there may be one of the strongest days in the week overall.

We're only a couple of weeks into is very early days, but we're pleased with what was sitting so far.

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Good morning the countryside comes to Westminster escape the news that farmers have been protesting in central London against gov budget plans to introduce inheritance tax on farms worth over a million-pound for has reported the protests extensively across its news programs and the issue has been discussed on programs like Farming Today money box and any questions but the BBC's coverage of the issue has caused quite a lot of divided opinion my name is cut from Cheshire I think there's been far too much coverage of the inheritance tax issue of late.

The coverage has been probably for sponsor a bit more because of certain celebrity landowners will clearly be affected significantly by this inheritance tax and I think that's right and proper because they have plenty of wealth here farmers protesting over in hair.

Text come to Whitehall among them Jeremy Clarkson hello, my name is Nick Morgan and I'm coming North Yorkshire please someone from BBC News please explain why there was such extensive coverage of a protest by a few thousand wealthy landowners, but zero coverage of the restore nature now March which attracted more than 60000 ordinary.

This is Tony green from Ipswich in Suffolk most protest marches in London go completely unreported a smaller number dimension on the news and nothing more if a loved one or two of the participants might be interviewed to make it the extensive coverage and surprisingly large number of protesting farmers who were interviewed very sympathetically on today's p.m.

Programme.

Text Jason Shaw I was very impressed to hear Nick Robinson and Amal Rogen's interview with James rebanks on the today podcast but when you found out this change was coming.

How did you take it on the podcast the framing of the inheritance tax changes in the recent budget really brought into sharp Focus the challenges that family farms are facing.

Hi.

I'm Sharon Green I live in London and not from London I'm interested in hearing about the countryside issues particularly the impact that the changes on inheritance tax will have on farmers Weekly I want to hear from a range of voices.

I want to hear from a range of voices on a range of issues.

Not just this one if you live in a city like I do or you've never lived in the country.

Then a diverse opinion is the way to go when it comes to media particularly public interest me as Tuesday's protest in London got underway.

I caught up with a BBC's former editor of

Informing programmes on Radio 4 Dimitri who starred in 2014 he was given the grand title of BBC rural affairs champion following are the size criticism of the corporations countryside coverage.

He left the post 3 months ago to work for a global agriculture from I Began by asking him for his views on the bridge.

So far.

I don't think this is a story about farming that happened to be about the budget inheritance tax.

I think it's a story about inheritance tax that just happened to be about Farmers and possibly the simplest story to tell in terms of some of those more complicated budget stories absolutely most is quite simple to understand this no basically you've got to pay inheritance tax on your farm house where we didn't mean to me to euro at the BBC was created 10 years ago after review find out that the BBC had a comb metropolitan bias regarding issues around farming.

Rural Communities what were the kinds of stories that you and the News teams involved felt should have been covered or given greater prominence, but won't know sometime it's difficult in a ft 4 programme night news at 6 in the News at Ten to make space on the programme 24 farming stories that today is doing pretty well.

That's good much more airtime United 3 of program, but I guess sometime you know when you've got to report on it rain when you've put on Israel when you've got to report on the US elections finding space for farming story of the end of the program can be challenging at the end of the program.

Do you feel it was very often treated like an and finally yes, he was often treated like an n family and so that can be a challenge to remind all editors.

Is important for ruler Communities and over 10-years that you were in the road, you think that you didn't make much progress and what program editors more receptive to rural issues, I'd like to think so I mean it is difficult to measure up because you know a lot of a discount soft luggage scales where you are you just kind of trying to influence so you don't know if that happened because of the conversation you ARDS or they would have happened anyway, but I'd like to think that's overall the BBC is it giving reviews for caring.

I mean if you look at Radio 4 this year the increased day.

They put their ruler puts you on your farm is not weekly program.

Increased food is not put the food programme is 50% longer have increased their environmental outputs which replace just in the office not white.

Said I think you know the BBC Radio 4 specifically are definitely trying to do the right thing and has a concern about the environment made rural issues, and yes, I believe it on space so so important to make sure that's rule in farming issues and not entirely seen through the prism environmental stories.

You know and that was one of the criticism of to report in 10-years ago.

Is that most of the reporting must done from environmental correspondence from an environmental point of view of the CD and raman stories are reading portent.

There is more to farming in Roller shoes done the environment and the role of rural affairs correspondent was created 10 years ago not in terms of BBC coverage.

I wonder how much of your news Gathering came from local radio.

Embedded in rural areas with all those local contacts within the farming community and have the cuts to local radio impacted the BBC's royal affairs journalism.

I think it has over the years we work very closely with a great bunch of reporters and you know that they used to be a quite a lot of reports underground was great for us to together stories from them because they were Dr to run the country and we could make use of them know with the changes in radio of received with few of them report on the ground so over the years working with all your credit report has been it's been great for the programme the BBC's former executive of rural affairs will the BBC told us in a statement this week, but the title champion of rural affairs is currently under review but the corporation was.

Recovering rural affairs across the BBC and have a number of dedicated programs on TV and radio as well as covering stories across BBC News we have appointed a new executive as I need a relay fares output on Radio 4 and the post chairs the BBC's royal advisory committee which includes all stakeholders and shares insight from a cross pram and communities as well as provide advice and feedback on the BBC's coverage and programming we are reviewing the role of first champion title but the role of the executive editor and our commitment to rural affairs remains unchanged.

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Always respectful, but a genuine empathy and curiosity he creates space for the interviewee to fill both open and honest you had to write to clear the way the more fiction in the future.

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