Breakfast with a Red Nose

[Don Petter]

Here's Reed & Frank Duncan reading some of Reed's poems, including Naming of Parts which I've known since I was 11 years old.

http://www.solearabiantree.net/namin...io-visual.html

And don't miss Dylan Thomas reading the poem on that same page.

[Anna]

I thought (I never listen to Breakfast) and as I said upthread, that concept would have worked well on The Verb. I find, as usual with Ian McMillan, he gabbles and his accent gets in the way making me turn instantly for the Off swtich (and I confess, one reason why I rarely listen to The Verb) But, having started this thread, it was my duty to listen.

I admit to being quite entertained by some items on Louise Fryer, but, hey it's a Friday afternoon, the sun is shining, and it's only one day of the year after all. And it's for charity. Edit: I will read am's link later

[salymap]

Don Petter, yes I would certainly buy the Henry Reed series on the great composeress. So they would sell at least two.

[Cellini]

Effing red nose day should be banned!!

Stupid kids and even more stupid adults blocking the transport system.

The BBC should be censored for this crap!!

Fine them a billion pounds.

Just give to charities for **** sake. Do away with the bullshit!

[Anna]

Effing red nose day should be banned!!

Stupid kids and even more stupid adults blocking the transport system.

The BBC should be censored for this crap!!

Fine them a billion pounds.

Just give to charities for **** sake. Do away with the bullshit!

Cellini (and your other post) you seem be so angry Why is this?

[Nick Armstrong]

I see in Donald Macleod's Spoof programme at 12noon today listeners were promised excerpts from Henry Reed's wonderful Third Programme spoofs. 'Hilda Tablet'. If the Beeb can do this there are hopes that they have tapes of all the various programmes. Mr.Wright, pretty, pretty please, do gladden the hearts of your older listeners who remember these programmes from about 1950 with affection, and broadcast them. Someofthe jokes have hardly aged at all, unlike the listeners.

Just catching up with this - some rather laboured "humour" early on - but great to hear the precise and golden tones of Antony Hopkins again after many years... (Looking him up, it seems he is still going at 90 odd, and had an amazing career as a composer, of which I was unaware)

[Norfolk Born]

Cellini (and your other post) you seem be so angry Why is this?

Perhaps nobody's said 'Benvenuto' to him (or her) lately......

[Panjandrum]

I'm in agreement with Cellini here. As I said earlier in this thread what is the remit under which the BBC is acting as fundraiser for the nation? To give to charity is a matter for one's private conscience.

As Cicero said: "Ipsa quidem pretium virtus sibi".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Surely the BBC helping people to help others is no bad thing?

[Panjandrum]

Surely the BBC helping people to help others is no bad thing?

I have no objection whatsoever to those at the BBC from spending all of their free time and disposable income on whatever charity they so wish.

[Simon]

How miserable can you get? "Bah, humbug." ??

[Eudaimonia]

Let's not forget one of the main things the event accomplished was to generate lots of free publicity for Radio 3. According to GoogleNews, setting the kazoo record garnered over 203 news stories and mentions in the press. Whatever you may think of the musical merits of kazoo-playing, surely this kind of public good-will toward the station counts for something.

And apparently, 3,910 people who don't have a stick up their backside had a wonderful time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbxxc9FUW_M&feature=player_detailpage

If you look closely at all the bootleg Youtube videos of the event, you'll notice a whole lot of enthusiastic kids in the audience. And between all the clowning, they actually heard a solid performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI6Wrjjg438

Who knows how many of these nearly-four-thousand will be inspired to come back for the Proms this summer? I hope they do.

[Panjandrum]

Who knows how many of these nearly-four-thousand will be inspired to come back for the Proms this summer? I hope they do.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to assume that anyone who has actually enjoyed this banal waste of airspace with features that would not tax the attention span of a dying gnat is going to be encouraged to come back and have the necessary concentration to sit silently (one hopes) for two hours to the greatest sounds that the human mind can produce.

And apparently, 3,910 people who don't have a stick up their backside had a wonderful time.

Having a stick thrust up one's backside might be your idea of a good time, and some others on this board (no names, no packdrill) but it is assuredly not mine!

[Panjandrum]

How miserable can you get? "Bah, humbug." ??

You obviously haven't understood the purport of messages #8 and #11 on this thread.

I'm afraid the last few weeks have been the equivalent of sitting in one's local and having every do-gooder in the place jingle their collecting tins in your face, and every bit as dull and tedious.

[Eudaimonia]

Having a stick thrust up one's backside might be your idea of a good time, and some others on this board (no names, no packdrill) but it is assuredly not mine!

You know, I have a veritable arsenal of moderately witty rejoinders I could deploy at this point, but as I'm imagining a stone-faced French Frank glaring at me from across the room--arms crossed, eyebrow raised-- I'd better leave that one alone.

For what it's worth, I found the trailers every bit as excruciating as you must have, so perhaps we should both agree to be happy it's over and leave it at that.