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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostPetroc grew up, I believe, in Cornwall, where English is a foreign language, which he was obviously sent off to learn at a good English school .
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I rarely tune in to "Breakfast" but occasionally if out in the car at that time of day and I've heard enough news I press the R3 button. It would appear that it has now been taken over by CBeebies entirely with requests for A road numbers to be matched up with opus numbers as an excuse to play, well, the same old stuff.
All an exercise to get listener feedback and interaction one presumes - but, oh sweet lord, how fatuous.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI rarely tune in to "Breakfast" but occasionally if out in the car at that time of day and I've heard enough news I press the R3 button. It would appear that it has now been taken over by CBeebies entirely with requests for A road numbers to be matched up with opus numbers as an excuse to play, well, the same old stuff.
All an exercise to get listener feedback and interaction one presumes - but, oh sweet lord, how fatuous.
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Perhaps, in the guise of "inclusivity" the Breakfast kids could ask their listeners to match opus numbers with London bus route numbers for those commuting to work by public transport or the time of the train from your home station (i.e. 7.38 - although, thinking about it, perhaps we get enough Vivaldi already )O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI rarely tune in to "Breakfast" but occasionally if out in the car at that time of day and I've heard enough news I press the R3 button. It would appear that it has now been taken over by CBeebies entirely with requests for A road numbers to be matched up with opus numbers as an excuse to play, well, the same old stuff.
All an exercise to get listener feedback and interaction one presumes - but, oh sweet lord, how fatuous.
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Originally posted by Jazzrook View Post"Breakfast" has become increasingly irritating with quizzes,
I imagine the popularity/success of the station is now judged by the number of Likes on Facebook (clicks to say you 'like' a photo, for example, and you do need to stop and think whether you like it or not) and the number of emails/texts/phoners-in it gets. And, to be fair, u do need 2 think in order 2 write an email or txt msg.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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Originally posted by french frank View PostI imagine the popularity/success of the station is now judged by the number of Likes on Facebook (clicks to say you 'like' a photo, for example, and you do need to stop and think whether you like it or not) and the number of emails/texts/phoners-in it gets.
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Just having look at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, there seems to have been even more of the regular regurgitations than normal. The warhorse section of my spreadsheet is already virtually filled up with a considerable proportion having already having been broadcast several times and we are only in to February!
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Originally posted by Zucchini View PostIsn't it long past time for you to stop using hiding anonymously behind 'french frank' when you are in fact speaking officially as: Sarah Spilsbury, Coordinator, The Friends of Radio 3?
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by cloughie View Post
And are you really Mr Courgette - are you green or yellow - left alone will to grow will you become Mr Marrow - be careful though there a cooks on these threads you could be stuffed and placed in a hot oven or even spiced and placed in a jar as chutney!
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Originally posted by Zucchini View PostIsn't it long past time for you to stop using hiding anonymously behind 'french frank' when you are in fact speaking officially as: Sarah Spilsbury, Coordinator, The Friends of Radio 3?
Originally posted by Zucchini View Poststop using hiding anonymously behind 'french frank'...
"Administration and Moderation
The Radio 3 Forum has two administrators, the co-founders of Friends of Radio 3, Mark Sealey (administrator – technology) and Sarah Spilsbury, forum name ‘french frank’ (administrator – moderation).." Last updated July 2012.
There is also a permanent message on the homepage asking people to read the House Rules before they post for the first time.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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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI rarely tune in to "Breakfast" but occasionally if out in the car at that time of day and I've heard enough news I press the R3 button. It would appear that it has now been taken over by CBeebies entirely with requests for A road numbers to be matched up with opus numbers as an excuse to play, well, the same old stuff.
All an exercise to get listener feedback and interaction one presumes - but, oh sweet lord, how fatuous.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostNot everyone reads everything on the forum. Though I suspect you're not revealing much about my anonymity that people didn't already know.
I think you overestimate your fame and the effective reach of the forum:
Did you know that just 25 people account for over half of all messages ever posted on the forum? And seem to be ever-present - Tweedledum and Tweedledee account for near 10% between them!
And over 1350 people have posted less than half.
On top of that there are observers, maybe finding their way here by accidently typing french horn into a search engine.
(Hosts should be addressing this, doing what a host should do - making efforts to attract the interest of the huge majority outside the tiny clique who swap 'in' jokes in their senile playground. What's New often looks awfully uninteresting unless you like listening to CDs of long dead artists at home)
The problems with your double identity usually arise from the use of the words "we" & "our". For example: "I explained our objections in a letter to the Queen..." Next a member of the forum says "Thanks for doing that for us french frank. We are all very grateful" Note that he/she is not entitled to say "all" and you didn't do it for the forum. Next you say "Our paper to Roger Wright will say that instead of Breakfast we want live concerts to start at 7.30am..." This statement is still open to the misinterpretation that this is the FoR3 forum. About a month ago a member posted "I can't do without my daily fix of FoR3"! That's wrong.
Simply solved if french frank is for your statements as administrator, your concert-going, views on food and drink, R3 programmes and Sarah Spilsbury is for analysis, evaluations, strategies of R3s output and aims and plausible alternatives.
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