The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[clive heath]

On Saturday mornings at breakfast time I listen to a 2hr programme which has a news bulletin midway, requests and trailers for subsequent programmes.

You will not hear;

headlines on the quarter-hours, news summaries on the half-hours

tweets invited or read out

snippets of music to be played later

members of the public interviewed on air

nauseating chats with the presenters of the following programme

guests, maps, pins
.
It is mature radio, especially for the older generation although I suspect its appeal is far wider.

SOTS.

[Lancashire Lass]

It is mature radio, especially for the older generation although I suspect its appeal is far wider.

Well you see, unless you're a sub-tweenie, you're of no interest to Radio 3.

I'm afraid Matilda (5) and Adam (3) -- or their pushy parents -- who picked the Breakfast signing-off music today, have done it for me. It's my CDs until 9 am from now on.

[french frank]

I'm afraid Matilda (5) and Adam (3) -- or their pushy parents -- who picked the Breakfast signing-off music today, have done it for me.

I think I heard it as Matilda and Adelaide. No doubt Ivan, aged 4, was listening as usual. And the Read boys, aged 8 and 5. And I think someone mentioned her cat or dog (I forget which) the other day.

[arancie33]

In the brief moments we had Radio 3 Breakfast on yesterday and today, I heard SM-P transpose Wednesday to Thursday (260750) and then this morning she moved Lugano to Italy (iPlayer today at 1:56:40). Too much tweeting and texting softens the brain, I reckon.

[clive heath]

A cri-de-coeur from a Times reader in yesterday's letters:

"Introducing music by Fauré, the Radio 3 presenter said:" Another weepie coming up". Mon dieu! Can nothing staunch this nauseous tide of trivialisation? The BBC is in real crisis."

...answer came there... Non

[french frank]

A cri-de-coeur from a Times reader in yesterday's letters:

"Introducing music by Fauré, the Radio 3 presenter said:" Another weepie coming up". Mon dieu! Can nothing staunch this nauseous tide of trivialisation? The BBC is in real crisis."

...answer came there... Non

Radio 3 tweets this morning: "How charming to hear this Benedictus by Alexander MacKenzie, celebrating British music on @BBCRadio3 #3breakfast @simonhoban" When you look at the playlist (yes, it's there already - before the programme has even finished) AM is simply listed as 'Mackenzie' (no one took time to find out which Mackenzie one presumes. Oh, come on - he's in Wikipedia 1847-1935). Click on 'Mackenzie' in the playlist and you get "Mackenzie - Scottish Gaelic trio from the Isle of Lewis - Biography - We currently have no biography for this artist" - plus an ad for Radio 1's Big Weekend. So much for Radio 3's music research department.

I see from the main BBC Home News that the Arctic Monkeys are to headline Glastonbury...

[mercia]

not much luck if one clicks on other composers in that list - "sorry the server hit a problem" I get (except for Edward German)

[french frank]

not much luck if one clicks on other composers in that list - "sorry the server hit a problem" I get (except for Edward German)

I would have thought it would be far less trouble to copy the plain running order - which is presumably already on someone's computer. And don't bother about changing it at the last minute - if a relevant news item does occur e.g. some performer dies, it can be dealt with later.

[The members of the 'Scottish Gaelic Trio from the Isle of Lewis' are listed as:
Fiona Mackenzie,
Eilidh Mackenzie ]

[amateur51]

Radio 3 tweets this morning: "How charming to hear this Benedictus by Alexander MacKenzie, celebrating British music on @BBCRadio3 #3breakfast @simonhoban" When you look at the playlist (yes, it's there already - before the programme has even finished) AM is simply listed as 'Mackenzie' (no one took time to find out which Mackenzie one presumes. Oh, come on - he's in Wikipedia 1847-1935). Click on 'Mackenzie' in the playlist and you get "Mackenzie - Scottish Gaelic trio from the Isle of Lewis - Biography - We currently have no biography for this artist" - plus an ad for Radio 1's Big Weekend. So much for Radio 3's music research department.

I see from the main BBC Home News that the Arctic Monkeys are to headline Glastonbury...

... where Radio 4's Today has installed John Humphrys to interview Mick Jagger

[teamsaint]

... where Radio 4's Today has installed John Humphrys to interview Mick Jagger

Luckily,there is nothing really important going on in the world just now.

Oh, and 're listings,playlists etc standards at the BBC are genuinely pathetic.

[Nick Armstrong]

A cri-de-coeur from a Times reader in yesterday's letters:

"Introducing music by Fauré, the Radio 3 presenter said:" Another weepie coming up". Mon dieu! Can nothing staunch this nauseous tide of trivialisation? The BBC is in real crisis."

A similar cri-de-coeur - though not a printable one - rang through Caliban Towers yesterday morning when Sara Mohr-Saccharine played the third movement of Vaughan Williams's 5th symphony as an example of "a tear-jerker"...

[Anna]

You wait until they start introducing items as "the well-known music of the British Airways ad"

[amateur51]

A similar cri-de-coeur - though not a printable one - rang through Caliban Towers yesterday morning when Sara Mohr-Saccharine played the third movement of Vaughan Williams's 5th symphony as an example of "a tear-jerker"...

Pathetic isn't it

[french frank]

... where Radio 4's Today has installed John Humphrys to interview Mick Jagger

Today's BBC, you might say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23110802

"The reason for the early start is Saturday morning's Today Programme, which he is co-presenting from Glastonbury, where he has an exclusive interview with Mick Jagger (on tape - "Sir Mick isn't going on air before his Cornflakes")."

Yes, pathetic, isn't it? Supposed to be the BBC's flagship news programme. He has to be in Glastonbury to play a tape of an interview with Mick Jagger?

[mangerton]

Today's BBC, you might say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23110802

"The reason for the early start is Saturday morning's Today Programme, which he is co-presenting from Glastonbury, where he has an exclusive interview with Mick Jagger (on tape - "Sir Mick isn't going on air before his Cornflakes")."

Yes, pathetic, isn't it? Supposed to be the BBC's flagship news programme. He has to be in Glastonbury to play a tape of an interview with Mick Jagger?

I think you're all forgetting that this is a knight of the realm we're talking about.

(I mean Mick, not JH..... )