[LISTENED TO: August 2015] The Organist
For the second season of The Organist, they switched formats from the once a month 45-55 minute long amalgam of stories of last year to a one story an episode, once a week format. The length hovers around 20 minutes now with some shows being much longer and others being much shorter. It doesn’t make too much of a difference if you listen all at once as I did, but I can see that if you’re listening when they come out that a weekly podcast would be more satisfying.
However, they have also opted to have an “encore” episode every fourth episode in which they take one of the segments from an earlier episode and play it on its own. How disappointing would it be to tune in and get a repeat? And why on earth would they repeat things if all of the previous episodes are available online? It’s very strange and frankly rather disappointing. I mean, sure, it’s nice to have the new introductions, but it’s not like you’re getting some kind of special version when they repeat it. It’s exactly the same. And, boy, they tend to repeat some of my least favorite pieces.
Also the website now gives a pretty detailed summary of the contents of each episode, so you get a good sense of what’s going to happen. (more…)
