The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Nick Armstrong]

I doubt if my Geordie accent would be appreciated?

I would very much appreciate it, I suspect. Love a bit of gravelly Geordie gravitas, me

[Nick Armstrong]

Which reminds me (because Donald Macleod used to be The TTN Voice), was that DM's voice that took over this morning when the link to Salford went down? If so, what was he doing in the office on a Sat'dy? Or was it someone else ... ?

Reading the news?

[french frank]

Reading the news?

No, that was someone called Lucy Grey, I think. Not easily confused ....

[Nick Armstrong]

No, that was someone called Lucy Grey, I think. Not easily confused ....

Forgive me, I wasn't actually listening... I was "undercover" at the time

[french frank]

I have to say (don't I? :-) ) that, though this was not a programme I would choose to listen to other than for research purposes, I have heard worse presentation in the past by Radio 3 presenters. I think. Whereas the worst aspects of today's programme were the regular tedium-inducing interruptions. Was I not concentrating fully (I'm not sure that I listened until the end, though I did hear the sudden silence - if silence is something you hear).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... notice certainly; it was the appaling content matter of the dreadful chat and the execrable choice of music ... it was really bad and the snippets of personal history involving Popeye just otiose personality porn

[kernelbogey]

Which reminds me (because Donald Macleod used to be The TTN Voice), was that DM's voice that took over this morning when the link to Salford went down? If so, what was he doing in the office on a Sat'dy? Or was it someone else ... ?

Could that have been a standby recording? Perhaps very old - wax cylinder maybe?

BTW DM was not just the voice of TTN but its creator, according to the Radio Three history by the blessed Humphrey Carpenter of recent memory.

[french frank]

BTW DM was not just the voice of TTN but its creator, according to the Radio Three history by the blessed Humphrey Carpenter of recent memory.

At least, he was the the one I first remember pitying c. 1996 because he was the one that had to sit up all night. I did worry about his social life.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Today's classic from Breakfast:
"Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe we find Bizet and his Carmen..."

So that's "Pearl Fishers", "L'Arlesienne", "Jeux d'enfants" and the "Symphony in C" dismissed then.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[Sir Velo]

Today's classic from Breakfast:
"Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe ..."

No! I won't have that! A two hit wonder maybe.

[Don Petter]

No! I won't have that! A two hit wonder maybe.

Is that because he had a Split personality?

[french frank]

Today's classic from Breakfast:
"Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe we find Bizet and his Carmen..."

So that's "Pearl Fishers", "L'Arlesienne", "Jeux d'enfants" and the "Symphony in C" dismissed then.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Interesting to know whether this meant: 'The only work by Bizet I've heard of' or 'The only work you the listeners will have heard of'. Either way ...

[Sir Velo]

Is that because he had a Split personality?

Well spotted.

[Sir Velo]

Interesting to know whether this meant: 'The only work by Bizet I've heard of' or 'The only work you the listeners will have heard of'. Either way ...

I took it to mean that he may have composed other stuff but none of it made the Top 20 of the BBC Specialist Classical Charts.

[Sir Velo]

..Or possibly nothing else he wrote made a mobile ringtone.