Prog series in Finnish Radio Yle 1

(Oh, now I learnt to edit these messages! )

 

In Finland you can listen to it in the net via YLE's pages. Search it in http://areena.yle.fi with the programme name "Karmiininpunaisen kuninkaan hovi", you'll find it. Each radio programme (or TV programme) in Areena can be listened to (or viewed) for some days, maybe it was for a week.

 

Some programmes can be listened abroad too, but sadly this one is not among them...

 

It is by composer Osmo Tapio Räihälä (happens to be a PA member too), the same man who has a radio series on chamber music ("Aarrekamari"), and appears on TV (Teema channel) in "Kausikortti" which also is about the world of classical music.

 

It's very nice to see that a radio channel musically profiled into Art Music gives this way the higher status to Prog too. The only sad thing is that this particular, culturally oriented radio channel (my one and only daily listened!) has much smaller audience than the pop oriented channels, and with the late broadcast time it's unlikely that those who are narrowed to classical music would find out a whole new genre worth investigating. But if this message brings news to any of Finnish PA members, good. (Of course it would be better if you all already prefer Yle 1 instead of usual radio channels...)