I couldn't care less who presents these programmes: young, old, male, female- it's all the same to me. Just as long as presenters are all they are. But they are not. They have a substantial influence on the content and format of the show- a task for which they are, without exception, unsuited . Hense the consistant dumbing down of Breakfast in particular, and R3 in general over the past years. What was once a channel that would inform and educate us, without patroning us, is now no more than a Classic FM cloan. Breakfast, and increasingly Essential Classics, seem to have a new remit: We know what we like, but given we don't know much, we don't like much. Or, if they do, it certainly doesn't make it onto the airwaves. Breakfast, for example, seems now to be obsessed by the "charts". A suspicious person might think there is some financial interest here...I couldn't possibly comment.
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by antongould View PostHHA couple of thoughts - why generally do female presenters generate an disproportionate amount of adverse comment hereabouts?
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostI can't say I see that. Trelawny; Cowan; Hoban; Rafferty; Service and that other occasional Saturday Breakfast presenter, Tom? someone from Radio Leeds have all come in for their share of flak. Perhaps it's because you're an old fashioned gent AG that you notice these alleged slurs on the ladies.
Otherwise I'm inclined to agree, Sir V"...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 Caliban View Post"Galant", perhaps, rather than old-fashioned...?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 PostThere probably is a tendency to disregard most of the stronger insults aimed at the men. But women rouse the protective(?) instincts in le galant homme.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostPerhaps it's because you're an old fashioned gent AG that you notice these alleged slurs on the ladies.Originally posted by french frank View PostThere probably is a tendency to disregard most of the stronger insults aimed at the men. But women rouse the protective(?) instincts in le galant homme.
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostTTN presenters are generally (always?) neutral in tone + restrict their words to a short introduction to the piece, the artists and possibly its connection to others in any sequence of items - ideal if you just want to listen to the music.
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Originally posted by subcontrabass View PostOn TTN the presentation time between items is very tightly restricted and has to be synchronized across all the different stations taking the music feed from the BBC. Some years ago one of the producers of TTN sought my help with some specialist information on a recording that they had been sent. Eventually it was decided not to use the recording so our discussion on how to reduce the information that I could offer to something short enough was not concluded.
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Originally posted by Radio64 View PostShe's back! In her own (tweet) words: "Back on yer wireless @BBCRadio3 this week.."
Not sure about the new pic though .. a tad too photo-shoppèd methinks.
There. In medieval France, 14 was about the age when girls gave up their diminutive names to assume the grown-up form: Jeannette became Jeanne, Peronnelle became Peronne. I always think it should be the time when they have their hair cut, though I do realise that long tresses do, allegedly, make them lusciously attractive to men. Happy to make 21 the 'cut-off' point, thoughIt 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 PostThere. In medieval France, 14 was about the age when girls gave up their diminutive names to assume the grown-up form: Jeannette became Jeanne, Peronnelle became Peronne.
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Originally posted by Zucchini View PostIf someone had tweeted that to Breakfast the 25 pople who account for 50% of messages here (seriously), would have erupted in fury.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 Zucchini View PostIf someone had tweeted that to Breakfast the 25 pople who last year accounted for 50% of messages here (seriously), would have erupted in fury.
So, would that be like the 25 composers whose work makes up 90% of "Breakfast's " output.
Just as a f'rinstance.
Distribution curves. such fun.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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