Breakfast with a Red Nose

[Eudaimonia]

Ouch!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Apart from the burblings of Macmillan, it just seems like an excuse to trot out a series of the most banal pop classics... Why is CFM fodder supposed to be equated with fun?

Well it's provoked a kind of amusement - the sarcastic sort. Is that what they're after?

I suspect not.

[Anna]

I listened to the last hour (is this the type of music they usually play on Breakfast?) It wasn't Consequences as we understand it from the childrens' game but a story. As a concept I think it would work very well on The Verb.

However, it seems practically the whole day is given over to Red Nose. At the moment on Classical Collection there are to be quizzes with various comedians and yet more is to come!

This afternoon comedians will join Louise Fryer to pick their own classical favourites too - including Lenny Henry presenting his own recording of Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf', and a mystery guest live in the studio. The BBC's performing groups also have a funny turn: don't miss the BBC Symphony Orchestra tackling a few easy pieces - backwards - and jazz from the Welsh NOT NOW band, who fiddle with Sibelius in Bangor. And at 4 o'clock it's over to the BBC's Maida Vale studios for the culmination of Radio 3's Red Nose Conducting Competition, as the lucky winner conducts the BBC Singers, live, in Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

At 5.00pm Sean Rafferty presents a special edition for Red Nose Day, with Dame Edna Everage. (Actually I think that will be genuinely funny and worth a listen)

The evening Concert is, of course, the great Kazoo with Basil Brush and other comedic talents.

[Don Petter]

Very much a day not to touch that ON switch then.

[3rd Viennese School]

Whos birthday is it? Roger Wright or Michael Finnesy?

3VS

[Nick Armstrong]

I listened to the last hour (is this the type of music they usually play on Breakfast?) It wasn't Consequences as we understand it from the childrens' game but a story. As a concept I think it would work very well on The Verb.

However, it seems practically the whole day is given over to Red Nose. At the moment on Classical Collection there are to be quizzes with various comedians and yet more is to come!

This afternoon comedians will join Louise Fryer to pick their own classical favourites too - including Lenny Henry presenting his own recording of Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf', and a mystery guest live in the studio. The BBC's performing groups also have a funny turn: don't miss the BBC Symphony Orchestra tackling a few easy pieces - backwards - and jazz from the Welsh NOT NOW band, who fiddle with Sibelius in Bangor. And at 4 o'clock it's over to the BBC's Maida Vale studios for the culmination of Radio 3's Red Nose Conducting Competition, as the lucky winner conducts the BBC Singers, live, in Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

At 5.00pm Sean Rafferty presents a special edition for Red Nose Day, with Dame Edna Everage. (Actually I think that will be genuinely funny and worth a listen)

The evening Concert is, of course, the great Kazoo with Basil Brush and other comedic talents.

Actually the quiz format was quite good, listened to the first round on the way in to work - chimed in with the Alphabet Associations mentality, Anna! Four extracts, what is the link? Didn't twig the first but got chess and drinks...

I though it worked quite well, and Sessions is always worth a giggle (especially when he mistitled the Handel piece "The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba" and then said it was the Carry On version...)

[3rd Viennese School]

I suppose the Kazoo Koncert makes a change from the usual Rachmaninov symphony 2/ Neilson symphony 4/ Beethoven symphony no.3 war horse concerts.

3VS

[Norfolk Born]

I suppose the Kazoo Koncert makes a change from the usual Rachmaninov symphony 2/ Neilson symphony 4/ Beethoven symphony no.3 war horse concerts.

3VS

Somebody else who can't spell Nielsen (assuming you are referring to the Danish composer of 6 symphonies).

[Anna]

What has puzzled me about today is why Comic Relief has been centralized on R3 (except for CotW) I've checked the schedules for R1, 2 and 4 and there was a small amount on R4 this morning, nothing on R1 or R2 whereas I would have thought R2 would be the ideal choice for raising donations/awareness. Or, is this a ploy to capture new listeners?

(And I'm not carping against Comic Relief and no doubt I'll watch some of it on BBC1 but I think Louise Fryer interviewing Basil Brush is really not what I want to hear although the Tom Lehrer was good)

[salymap]

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.

[Anna]

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

salymap, thanks for mentioning this. I have never heard The Third Programme but I know people who have seem to be very fond of the Hilda Tablet sketches. I shall seek this out on iplayer and see what the adulation is about.

Actually, I have enjoyed some parts of Louise Fryer so far this afternoon, i.e., Lenny Henry's Peter & The Wolf, Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture and Dudley Moore. Anna Russell on Wagner was really funny

[Don Petter]

salymap,

I agree! This sentiment has been expressed before on the Forum. All seven of the plays (and a terrific recording of the cycle of poems 'Lessons of the War', which includes the well-known 'Naming of Parts', read by Henry Reed and Frank Duncan, from 1966) are available as downloads from unofficial sources (GIYF).

It would be wonderful, however, to have an official production from the BBC. It would make a great 12 CD set, and I'd certainly be first in the queue.

[french frank]

What has puzzled me about today is why Comic Relief has been centralized on R3 (except for CotW) I've checked the schedules for R1, 2 and 4 and there was a small amount on R4 this morning, nothing on R1 or R2 whereas I would have thought R2 would be the ideal choice for raising donations/awareness. Or, is this a ploy to capture new listeners?

Moyles did a 2-day stint for R1 and R4 had a look at the history of Comic Relief this morning. But it does seem unusually OTT for Radio 3 , doesn't it - Comic Relief Total Immersion? ...

[amateur51]

salymap,

I agree! This sentiment has been expressed before on the Forum. All seven of the plays (and a terrific recording of the cycle of poems 'Lessons of the War', which includes the well-known 'Naming of Parts', read by Henry Reed and Frank Duncan, from 1966) are available as downloads from unofficial sources (GIYF).

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

[Frances_iom]

Moyles did a 2-day stint for R1 and R4 had a look at the history of Comic Relief this morning. But it does seem unusually OTT for Radio 3 , doesn't it - Comic Relief Total Immersion? ...

I was thinking it more total CR *p - a RW fiasco from the brief sampling of a couple of programs I managed so far without being induced to switch off. One or two comic items (the more intelligent thereof) might have been very acceptable but not it seems a day of often forced amusement . I did however find the offswitch in less than 2 secs this morning - IM should stick to his ghetto of 'creative writing' or possibly go in for funny voices on his nearest hospital radio station (maybe both at the same time?).