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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8778

    Originally posted by Northender View Post
    0743:
    'So, here IS 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by ....er... the composer of ...The... Oh dear. I've lost my piece of paper. Are we playing 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' - yes, here it is, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Paul Dukas' (or words to that effect. As the dedicatee was a listener's 10-month-old son, he was presumably, and mercifully, unaware of this example of a Radio 3 presenter escaping from a holoe which he has just dug).
    Yes it was all rather embarrassing but then some of us think he's not half the man SMP is.........

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8778

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Yes it was all rather embarrassing but then some of us think he's not half the man SMP is.........
      Sorry to be more exact "....one of us thinks....."

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      • Suffolkcoastal
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3290

        I don't think there is currently a hole deep enough for Breakfast to be thrown into. Just had a listen, professional broadcasting at its finest. I cannot believe that PT didn't know who wrote the wretched piece or are the presenters now so totally reliant on their silly scripts that they are incapable of having any knowledge or their own or being able to think for themselves. Total directoral control in all matters by the Dear Leader, his staff can no longer perform basic functions without first having to refer to their specific instructions.

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        • Sir Velo
          Full Member
          • Oct 2012
          • 3225

          Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
          I don't think there is currently a hole deep enough for Breakfast to be thrown into. Just had a listen, professional broadcasting at its finest. I cannot believe that PT didn't know who wrote the wretched piece or are the presenters now so totally reliant on their silly scripts that they are incapable of having any knowledge or their own or being able to think for themselves. Total directoral control in all matters by the Dear Leader, his staff can no longer perform basic functions without first having to refer to their specific instructions.
          OTOH, perhaps the much-maligned Petroc was making a subversive protest against the inanity of the Breakfast programme?

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          • Black Swan

            Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
            I don't think there is currently a hole deep enough for Breakfast to be thrown into. Just had a listen, professional broadcasting at its finest. I cannot believe that PT didn't know who wrote the wretched piece or are the presenters now so totally reliant on their silly scripts that they are incapable of having any knowledge or their own or being able to think for themselves. Total directoral control in all matters by the Dear Leader, his staff can no longer perform basic functions without first having to refer to their specific instructions.
            I totally agree, this was embarrassing. And then while driving into work we had a Wurlitzer concert from Blackpool. I am finally giving up except on the weekends.

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            • EdgeleyRob
              Guest
              • Nov 2010
              • 12180



              Only a matter of time ?

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              • Black Swan

                Oh my. I wish I could disagree but I fear this is not far off in the continuing dumbing down of breakfast.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25193

                  Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post


                  Only a matter of time ?
                  I think we need to fight a Rieu guard action, ER .
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Black Swan

                    Maybe we could have a call in program: What is your favorite thing to do with a Rieu CD?

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30235

                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Yes it was all rather embarrassing but then some of us think he's not half the man SMP is.........
                      Actually, it sounded to me like complete loss of concentration: time they all gave up trying to tweet while they're on air.
                      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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                      • antongould
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8778

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        Actually, it sounded to me like complete loss of concentration: time they all gave up trying to tweet while they're on air.
                        I agree....

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                        • clive heath

                          Over an hour of today's, and Hindemith, Ellington, lovely Franck, not too hackneyed, I hope, Brahms Academic Festival, also IMO worth a listen de temps a temps, superior Vivaldi ( not wallpaper this time) and ...............I haven't sworn at the radio once!

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                          • underthecountertenor
                            Full Member
                            • Apr 2011
                            • 1584

                            ...not to mention a piece I'd never heard before, and which I found rather haunting: Spurn Point Elegy by Anthony Hedges, which PT introduced with his own evocative (and apparently unscripted) description of Spurn Point. Generally an enjoyably diverse choice of music today, although I for one could have done without the excerpt from Will Todd's Mass in Blue, which seems to be gaining purchase amongst choral societies because they misguidedly believe that it makes them appear cool.

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3596

                              Something strange is happening...


                              ... two complimentary Breakfast posts in a row!


                              Agree re: Spurn Point Elegy - hauntingly beautiful, I thought.

                              OG

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                              • Old Grumpy
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 3596

                                Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post


                                Only a matter of time ?

                                You may come to rieu the day you suggested this, ER.

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