The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8782

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    "My CD of the week". Well I chose it and I've decided which tracks to play from it and I wrote all my scripts and chose all the other music and worked out all the timings - I've worked quite hard to make this the seamless smooth-running finished product that it is. I didn't just saunter into the studio 30 seconds before transmission in my bowtie and dinner jacket, with everything worked out and arranged for me. I'm not a mere continuity announcer you know.
    So you are the "BBC insider" mercs - I claim my £5......

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    • Richard Tarleton

      Originally posted by mercia View Post
      "My CD of the week". Well I chose it and I've decided which tracks to play from it and I wrote all my scripts and chose all the other music and worked out all the timings - I've worked quite hard to make this the seamless smooth-running finished product that it is. I didn't just saunter into the studio 30 seconds before transmission in my bowtie and dinner jacket, with everything worked out and arranged for me. I'm not a mere continuity announcer you know.
      In other words, mercs, you've curated it (quote CB-H, in one of those articles.....)

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      • Richard Tarleton

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        He has confirmed. Or rather denied. He made a grammatical error, though HG has also said he is NOT a BBC insider either. I had concluded that, as a now retired person, HG spent a lot of time on the internet finding out little nuggets of information that are there for anyone to see. He merely supports the BBC against all critics and may well have close connections with the BBC while not being, now, an 'insider'. Richard Tarleton definitely did NOT mean that he (Richard Tarleton) was a BBC insider; and he isn't.
        Thanks ff - no indeed, and yes I did. My sentence should of course have read "But I imagine the sort of [...] would have been anathema to you, as a BBC insider, HG." Anyway this is very helpful.

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22119

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          You put your finger on the difference. I would understand that as slightly tongue in cheek humility. Not:

          If you have been, thanks for listening to me, John Ebdon, back with you tomorrow. Join me [John Ebdon (optional)], same time, same place.

          If people turned on just when he was finishing, it's no good saying 'Thanks for listening' to them, because they haven't been.
          I seem to remember the sign off from Ian Skidmore who took over the post Today on Mondays 8.45. I remember the statement because in these times of limited concentration it is rather appropriate!

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30283

            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
            In other words, mercs, you've curated it (quote CB-H, in one of those articles.....)
            And Radio 3 has now been able to dispense with all the production staff ...
            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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            • aka Calum Da Jazbo
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 9173

              have you ever experienced those truly horrific muscle cramps induced by various hypertension medications .... in the midst of an agonising explosion of cramp in my lower legs this morning, it had me hopping and staggering, i paused to turn off CB_H; and then resumed the attempt to abate the lesser agony ....

              she cooed aaahs to an interviewee like a true Greater Crested Gushwit ....
              According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 20570

                Today at around 8.20, the presenter was telling us something relevant. Between two related sentences, she said "I'm Clemency Burton-Hill," all without taking a breath.

                Sometimes, I really do wonder.

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                • Black Swan

                  I have had a Breakfast Show free 9 days as I have been attending the York Early Music Festival. As I am not working, I don't need to get up early and I find that the clammer on breakfast a fantastic stimulus to get out of bed, to shut off the radio and load the CD player.

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    Today at around 8.20, the presenter was telling us something relevant. Between two related sentences, she said "I'm Clemency Burton-Hill," all without taking a breath.

                    Sometimes, I really do wonder.
                    It's time for a Balliol Rhyme - first line:-

                    I am Clemency Burton-Hill
                    ...[etc]

                    Example:

                    My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
                    I am a most superior person.
                    My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek,
                    I dine at Blenheim twice a week.

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20570

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                      • Zucchini
                        Guest
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 917

                        Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                        ,,,on breakfast a fantastic stimulus to get out of bed, to shut off the radio and load the CD player.
                        I really can't understand why anyone should want to (half) listen to a classical CD in the early morning.

                        Better by far to listen to an attractive girl whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

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                        • Radio64
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2014
                          • 962

                          Originally posted by Zucchini View Post
                          I really can't understand why anyone should want to (half) listen to a classical CD in the early morning.

                          Better by far to listen to an attractive girl whispering sweet nothings in your ear.
                          Pass the milk would you please?
                          "Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."

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                          • Don Petter

                            For RT.

                            I'm Clemency Burton-Hill
                            Away with both trouble and ill
                            My sole R3 function
                            Is absolute unction
                            Far better than capsule or pill

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                            • Honoured Guest

                              My name is Clemmie Burton-Hill,
                              My mammaries are leaking still.
                              I rise so early every morn
                              To read your tweets and witter corn.

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                              • Richard Tarleton

                                I knew this was asking for trouble

                                Good opener Don, I may have to relax the rules to allow limericks. I was trying to come up with something a little less controversial, HG - along the lines of

                                My name is Clemmie Burton-Hill
                                I'm gifted, witty, clever....still,
                                Although my tweeting drives you mad
                                I'm just as famous as my dad.......

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