Originally posted by antongould
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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not 100% sure what shirtsleeves have to do with anything
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to continue with the teenage ignorance, paean seems a fair word to me for Ma vlast but I'm happy to hear another suggestion
more than with any other presenter I thought Mr Hoban was reading a script written for him, isn't it traditional to blame the programme producers rather than the presenters on these occasions ?Last edited by mercia; 12-05-13, 16:30.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostFeeling a little Wan today, vimto?
"You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "
[17 April 1778].
But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWell, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
I have no desire to listen to today's on iplayer........or to hear Mr. Hoban ever again.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostWell, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.
As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'
Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)
Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... my dear Caliban - normally I am like Oliver Edwards, Samuel Johnson's friend as quoted in Boswell's Life :
"You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "
[17 April 1778].
But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...
I didn't listen... I adopt Anna's confession - wasn't up till some considerable time after Mr Hoban's shirtsleeves had left the studio
It was a recording of yesterday's BAL which preceded the levée at Château Caliban this morning"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Anna View PostI confess I didn't get up in time to listen to Simon Hoban yesterday or today, just the last 10 minutes on Saturday, but I see next Saturday it's back to C B-H so his appearance was a one-off.
As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'
Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)
Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?
this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.
Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.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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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostSuddenly its not "Through a glass Darkly" . (what a lovely phrase that is.)
this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.
Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.
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Originally posted by cloughie View Post
my introduction to the Stones, that one, pretty much.
A very good argument in favour of compilation albums.
Every one a winner.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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Originally posted by Anna View PostBasically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures ....
I've just spent the afternoon chatting with my nephew who dropped in unexpectedly. He's 29 and says he doesn't listen to radio, especially not breakfast radio. He would be a 6 Music listener and would like to listen more because radio would introduce him to a wider range of music and he feels limited by what he already has. He likes talk between the music as long as it's either about the music or has some intellectual content.
He fled from 6 Music's Sean Keaveny and now he's been lost as a radio listener.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 PostAnd if they haven't ...?
It's not something you savour at the breakfast table with a toast rack crammed with wholemeal bread, some superior butter and a jar of Frank Cooper's coarse cut, is it?
(Not that I've ever done that! But it must have been nice)
What I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.
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Originally posted by cloughie View Postanton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?Last edited by Old Grumpy; 12-05-13, 20:25. Reason: No offence to either party, but I've just rejoined the board and it made me laugh!
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Originally posted by Anna View PostWhat I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.
Totally agreed!"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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