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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26514

    Originally posted by Radio64 View Post
    Oh so that's what he does. I googled him and I'm rather relieved to know he's not the US porn star of the same name.




    "...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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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      Clem obviously enjoys Downton Abbey

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        Clem obviously enjoys Downton Abbey
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgAJhLPdGw
        Yes she is talented, bright, well-spoken, and a delight to the eye - look at this clip about the Proms recorded for the American radio station WQXR:

        Clemency Burton-Hill from the BBC 3 shares her Top Five Reasons Why The Proms is the Greatest Classical Music Festival On Earth. More: http://bit.ly/14eNO2NF...


        So why is her talent being wasted making her spout gibberish on Breakfast?
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • underthecountertenor
          Full Member
          • Apr 2011
          • 1584

          Sorry: trying to work out what the connection can possibly be between enjoying Downton Abbey and being talented and bright (let alone the other stuff).

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30206

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            So why is her talent being wasted making her spout gibberish on Breakfast?
            Actors don't like to turn down parts?
            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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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25190

              I will never listen to Breakfast as long as she is presenting.
              I see so many bright, well spoken, talented kids struggling to get any kind of a break in jobs such as the arts and media. They often carry a vast burden of debt from their university education. if they get a break, it may well be on something like minimum wage, and often after months of free labour given on "internships".
              So seeing well connected people like CB-H getting endless opportunities, and apparently picking up plum jobs such as presenting" Breakfast" without any kind of open competition, sticks in my throat.


              Apologies for the rant. But I really object to my license fee paying for what looks a lot like nepotism.

              (I have also been boycotting Jeremy Vine for reasons I have long forgotten, for many years. Actually, you don't really need a reason).
              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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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                Sorry: trying to work out what the connection can possibly be between enjoying Downton Abbey and being talented and bright (let alone the other stuff).
                Nothing to do with Downton - that was a charity gig she did for Mastermind.

                As Wiki puts it:
                she attended St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School before reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Burton-Hill is a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.
                So she is clearly intelligent and talented.
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Radio64
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2014
                  • 962

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post

                  So why is her talent being wasted making her spout gibberish on Breakfast?
                  Who cares? I'm hooked!
                  "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30206

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    As Wiki puts it:
                    Burton-Hill is a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.
                    Was that the RCM's Hugh Bean Memorial Violin Competition for the under 12s?
                    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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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by french frank View Post


                      Clearly she was a very talented under-12-year-old
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20569

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        Actors don't like to turn down parts?


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                        • Radio64
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2014
                          • 962

                          Originally posted by Flay View Post


                          Clearly she was a very talented under-12-year-old
                          She learnt with the Suzuki method.
                          "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20569

                            When I was abput 14, I used to really look forward to Alan Keith on "Your 100 Best Tunes" on Radio 2 on Sunday evening.

                            But that was only once a week, with a warm and friendly presenter - rather like a kind father. The current R3 collection (I used a different word, but it wasn't at all hostly) appear to be several leagues lower down in presentation skills.

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              I see so many bright, well spoken, talented kids struggling to get any kind of a break in jobs such as the arts and media. They often carry a vast burden of debt from their university education. if they get a break, it may well be on something like minimum wage, and often after months of free labour given on "internships".
                              So seeing well connected people like CB-H getting endless opportunities, and apparently picking up plum jobs such as presenting" Breakfast" without any kind of open competition, sticks in my throat.

                              Apologies for the rant. But I really object to my license fee paying for what looks a lot like nepotism.
                              I have no answer to that. I do not know how she got the job.

                              (But I would like to know!)
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20569

                                Sadly, nepotism and cronyism are rife in the musical world. It's probably worse in the acting world and in the broadcasting world, it's almost expected.

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