Originally posted by Richard Tarleton
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostAny chance this thread could be merged with, say, "Scotland to charge for plastic bags", at least until all the feverish excitement dies down?
I'm off to listen to Breakfast again .. on Listen again .."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by MLF View PostI agree, Sir. CBH is, for me, in a select group of two presenters who make me switch off (the other being SR). In my glorious reign, PT and IS would share breakfast duties, with SK and... wait for it... SMP covering In Tune. ( I maintain SMP is wasted on the dreadful "The Choir", but would do rather well on In Tune).
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Postthis previously excellent programmeIt 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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Black Swan
I briefly tuned in even though, I said I wouldn't and got the Cambridge Buskers busking Rossini and then of course to hear as a new mother CBH is always looking for a good lullaby. Enough, on with the Madonna CD in the car....
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Originally posted by french frank View PostTo be fair, it was never the same once they abolished Choirworks on the grounds that 90 minutes of choral music was a bit of a no-no on Sundays. And I don't think presenters can do a lot to improve a duff format. The 'Breakfast' format [as in The Choir] is a duff format.
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clive heath
I'm wondering why the Godowsky piece played by Marc André Hamelin is missing from today's playlist.
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MLF
Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt isn't the presenters that's the issue. It's the programme itself. As for SM-P being 'wasted on the dreadful "The Choir"', she was the one who dragged this previously excellent programme down into the gutter.
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Originally posted by MLF View PostActually I think there are two issues: the presenters and the format. While the format is not what I would have chosen, it was rendered immeasurably better, IMHO by IS. As for SMP, I have enjoyed her work before - and I cannot believe she is the author of the current dreadful format of the Choir.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostI'm sure she isn't the author, but she fires the bullets.
My timings of Breakfast suggested that the 150-minute programme invariably had 30 minutes of presenter/speech contribution. And as the programme is intended, primarily, to appeal to (and not 'intimidate') new listeners we surely can't expect much by way of interesting input (notwithstanding IS's valiant - if not always strictly musical - bons mots). The Choir has gone the same way.
I would suggest that the Love/Hate relationships that (all?) radio listeners have with presenters is whether they establish a sympathetic rapport with their audience - and for me, the non negotiable is intelligence. I don't mean whether the presenters possess intelligence, but whether they communicate it. It seems that the brief is often not to do so.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 Post[...] a sympathetic rapport with their audience - and for me, the non negotiable is intelligence. I don't mean whether the presenters possess intelligence, but whether they communicate it. It seems that the brief is often not to do so.
(EDIT: And of course Radios 1 & 2 have delivered big audiences in return for this formula.)
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