The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

Again, possibly. Did you have anyone in mind ?

As long as they can distinguish diplodocus from brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus, and triceratops from pterodactyl, they'll be set up for life and employment.

Anyway, on topic, thank goodness Richard Tarleton wasn't listening to Breakfast this morning or he would have another gripe to add to 'Tarréga' ... Perhaps we could have a Spanish Month, with all the Radio 3 presenters given a crash course in Spanish pronunciación.

[DracoM]

As long as they can distinguish diplodocus from brontosaurus and tyrannosaurus, and triceratops from pterodactyl, they'll be set up for life and employment.

Anyway, on topic, thank goodness Richard Tarleton wasn't listening to Breakfast this morning or he would have another gripe to add to 'Tarréga' ... Perhaps we could have a Spanish Month, with all the Radio 3 presenters given a crash course in Spanish pronunciation.

............Led of course by Katie-the multi-linguist except-that-it-all-sounds-like-Italian Derham.

[french frank]

What I heard was a perfect Italian pronunciation of Concierto (de Aranjuez) - ConchaiRRto. De sounded French. Aranjuez best left to the imagination ...

[Radio64]

What I heard was a perfect Italian pronunciation of Concierto (de Aranjuez) - ConchaiRRto. De sounded French. Aranjuez best left to the imagination ...

Speaking Spanish in all those accents . .that's pretty clever when you come to think about it.

[Richard Tarleton]

Aranjuez best left to the imagination ...

Orange juice?

Great film by the way.

I never listen before 0900 these days, tho' that doesn't save me from R3 Spanish......

[DracoM]

Was it my imagination or merely the usual dyspepsia generated by 'Breakfast' , or did Martin Handley's last half hour this [Sat ] a.m. consist almost entirely of a whole list of trails?

I know everyone asks this, but do the R3 people have the slightest notion of just how much their audience is enraged by and loathes and scorns them? OR, even more relevantly, how many listeners are enraged anough just to switch off and turn to other resources?

[french frank]

Orange juice?

I hadn't heard that one. This was more like ARRanthwezzz....

[Frances_iom]

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I know everyone asks this, but do the R3 people have the slightest notion of just how much their audience is enraged by and loathes and scorns them? OR, even more relevantly, how many listeners are enraged anough just to switch off and turn to other resources?

Trails are now a plague on all BBC radio stations - eg R4 carries them within any program lasting more than 30 mins often at less than 15min intervals - I havn't listened to Breakfast for some time and now have installed a CD player in my breakfast area - the old ethos of the BBC is dead as it has become a semicommercial station ready for the complete commercialisation if England is stupid enough to allow the Tories back in at the next election (I'm hoping the Scots will have left by then)

[Honoured Guest]

eg R4 carries them within any program lasting more than 30 mins often at less than 15min intervals

On R4, the trails are only between programmes or within live programmes, where there are only two trails per hour aren't there?

[Frances_iom]

On R4, the trails are only between programmes or within live programmes, where there are only two trails per hour aren't there?

No unless you are in pedantic mode and count the gap at 1759 now always filled by an advert as not part of previous program which on the few times I've been listening usually had an advert at 1745 or there abouts

[HARRIET HAVARD]

Orange juice?

Great film by the way.

I never listen before 0900 these days, tho' that doesn't save me from R3 Spanish......

Like you, I never listen to R3 before 0900- or much after that for that matter. I occasionally turn on EC to see how long it will take before a piece or performance is descrided as fantastic/marvellous/great/ superb etc etc etc, or, Variations on a Theme by- well you get the picture- is played. So far I don't think I've lasted beyond nine fifteen before I'm reaching for the "off" button.

[french frank]

I occasionally turn on EC to see how long it will take before a piece or performance is descrided as fantastic/marvellous/great/ superb etc etc etc, or,

I picked up three references to performances in two days on R3's Twitter: 'spell-binding', 'spectacular' and 'mesmerizing', which I thought a cut above many on-air superlatives. 'Spectacular' can also be classed as, objectively, true, albeit less impressive on radio.

[Richard Tarleton]

I hadn't heard that one. This was more like ARRanthwezzz....

Just caught RC signing off at the end of EC - (wrong thread but on topic!) - he wisely stuck to "Concerto for a Gentleman" (he should do this more) but attributed the performance to "Narthitho Yepes"

[Radio64]

"..she has no idea if the Queeen listens to Radio 3.."

..another CBH item for you to rip to pieces!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"..she has no idea if the Queeen listens to Radio 3.."

..another CBH item for you to rip to pieces!!

Another one to ignore. Presenters are not that important.