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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Sounds to me as if nothing could justify that, although I've no idea what you're on about!
    AHA! It was on R3 (I listen to it - do you?) Rob had him doing some bird thing and next day, oh, probably Breakfast, after flurry of complaints, the Host played the Keteleby to torment further. I had to turn off.
    Ontopic: I once rowed down the River Wear (or was it the Tyne?) anyway, I took a rowing boat down from Durham on a river that flowed through it. Scary or what?

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8782

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      AHA! It was on R3 (I listen to it - do you?) Rob had him doing some bird thing and next day, oh, probably Breakfast, after flurry of complaints, the Host played the Keteleby to torment further. I had to turn off.
      Ontopic: I once rowed down the River Wear (or was it the Tyne?) anyway, I took a rowing boat down from Durham on a river that flowed through it. Scary or what?
      Are you Roger Whittaker?

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8782

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Is that where the expression 'dog in the manger' comes from?

        Sorry... I'm getting my coat...

        (Literally)

        Curses - but then we Saras are famous for our mistakes

        I'm off for a pint at the Paradise Gordons with Arnold Box.......

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Are you Roger Whittaker?
          Who He?
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGdBfzCwcQ

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8782

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            He wrote a song called, I think, Durham Town and warbled about sitting on the banks of the River Tyne ....as even Rumpole knows Durham is on the Wear.

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              He wrote a song called, I think, Durham Town and warbled about sitting on the banks of the River Tyne ....as even Rumpole knows Durham is on the Wear.
              I've got to leave old Durham town
              I've got to leave old Durham town
              I've got to leave old Durham town
              And the leaving's gonna get me down

              Back in 1944
              I remember daddy walking out the door
              Mama told me he was going to war
              He was leaving
              Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me

              When I was a boy, I spent my time
              Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne
              Watching all the ships going down the line
              They were leaving
              Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me,

              The last week mama passed away
              Goodbye son, was all she'd say
              There's no cause for me to stay
              So I'm leaving
              Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.


              Altogether now ...
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8782

                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                I've got to leave old Durham town
                I've got to leave old Durham town
                I've got to leave old Durham town
                And the leaving's gonna get me down

                Back in 1944
                I remember daddy walking out the door
                Mama told me he was going to war
                He was leaving
                Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me

                When I was a boy, I spent my time
                Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne
                Watching all the ships going down the line
                They were leaving
                Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me,

                The last week mama passed away
                Goodbye son, was all she'd say
                There's no cause for me to stay
                So I'm leaving
                Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.


                Altogether now ...
                Pure Ted Hughes........I'll get Rumpole's coat.....

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                • JanH

                  I have been listening to CFM this morning. Alan Titchmuss (sp?) sounds a pleasant reasonable person, the music is classical, though nothing new to me, I am ignoring the adverts quite successfully!

                  All this is a great improvement upon Radio 3 when i tried it again this morning, a "presenter" I had never heard before, name not listed in the newspaper. He was truly awful, having conversations of no interest to anyone else with the newsreader, and a paticularly silly twitter with a phone in person about her "Mummy's" funeral, her piano, and car chases which continued for several mins...........it really was appalling. I should desist as we already know how awful it is but not having listened to R3 for some time it really struck me how it had continued to deteriorate since I had last turned it on - to see if anything had improved.

                  Is it a vain hope to think that the new man at the BBC, Lord Hill, having come from the ROH will do anything about the poor service from R3? It would also be interesting to know how many previously regular listeners no longer do so, is this possible?

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                  • JanH

                    Charlotte Green will be presenting her classical music programme, on CFM on Sunday at 3.

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                    • Frances_iom
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 2413

                      Originally posted by JanH View Post
                      ... It would also be interesting to know how many previously regular listeners no longer do so, is this possible?
                      FF will, I'm sure, be along with the minimal set of published Rajar figures - I finally after 20+years turned off my R3 alarm as even the 5 mins around 7.30am had sunk as low as I could tolerate - I now would not complain if R3 went off air as the BBC appears to have sunk well below my listening tolerance for much of the day
                      tho I'd miss the evening concert + a few other programmes (now very few and diminishing in number )

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                      • alycidon
                        Full Member
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 459

                        Oh! It really is so awful. I would not have believed that a programme that is ostensibly musical could sink as low as it appears to have done in recent years. What IS wrong with everyone on R3?
                        Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                        • Suffolkcoastal
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3290

                          Whatever is going is steadily getting worse, the iplayer for Thursday evening's concert has last Friday's concert on it. The playlists still remain doubled or trebled at times or started and left unfinished. Basically RW is presiding over a station that is in danger of becoming a complete shambles, it's time he went, as either he doesn't care of he's losing complete control of any strategy the station had or was aiming at.

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8782

                            I didn't hear this morning's episode doing the Florence N's to a poorly grandson - but I have to admit that a couple of friends have sent texts moaning about the new(?) presenter.

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30285

                              Originally posted by antongould View Post
                              I didn't hear this morning's episode doing the Florence N's to a poorly grandson - but I have to admit that a couple of friends have sent texts moaning about the new(?) presenter.
                              Unless there was a last-minute change, it was Tom McKinney, a classical guitarist who has done a bit of presenting for Radio 3 before:

                              "Tom lives in the Peak District with his wife Sarah and daughter Nancy. He plays a 1999 Paul Fischer and a Gibson SG. He enjoys spending time in Ladbrokes and writing biographical entries about himself in a third-person voice."

                              A bit too egocentric to be a presenter?



                              http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/festiv.../events/9.html (second item - is this he?

                              Easter is sometimes end of/new contract time at the BBC. Next weekend's presenter is Radio Merseyside drivetime presenter Simon Hoban (he did study music).
                              It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12815

                                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                                . Next weekend's presenter is Simon Hoban.
                                ... I think he's been on before. .

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