The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[HARRIET HAVARD]

For some reason, I read this as "has an X chromosome", which gave a whole other story from the one you were telling.

Do you still need a colour licence if you are colour blind?

[french frank]

Do you still need a colour licence if you are colour blind?

I suppose so. People don't see pictures in black and white, do they? And there may be other people watching the set ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

People don't see pictures in black and white, do they?

Occasionally, yes, though this isn't normal colour-blindness.

[mercia]

anyone listening to Breakfast this morning ? I can hear the studio staff talking to eachother
microphone problems by the sound of it

[antongould]

Seems Clemmie is still in the bathroom.......

[mercia]

Dear Clem

I don't think Pepys said anything about the recorder in 1611 - cos he weren't born then

[kernelbogey]

It amused me that in the early part of the programme CB-H apologised repeatedly for the 'technical hitch' with the microphones, quite appropriately, which left her sounding like she was 'broadcasting from a cupboard'. But the subtext to the apologies was that we were being deprived of everything except the music - as though that were the minor component of the show!

[antongould]

It amused me that in the early part of the programme CB-H apologised repeatedly for the 'technical hitch' with the microphones, quite appropriately, which left her sounding like she was 'broadcasting from a cupboard'. But the subtext to the apologies was that we were being deprived of everything except the music - as though that were the minor component of the show!

Yes , sadly, it did come across like that......

[Don Petter]

It amused me that in the early part of the programme CB-H apologised repeatedly for the 'technical hitch' with the microphones, quite appropriately, which left her sounding like she was 'broadcasting from a cupboard'. But the subtext to the apologies was that we were being deprived of everything except the music - as though that were the minor component of the show!

I tuned in briefly during a short car journey to hear CB-H apparently apologising that because of technical problems we were having to listen to a Chopin Nocturne.

[Bax-of-Delights]

"Fantastic!"

"Fantastically brilliant"

"Wonderful"

"Blew my socks off!"

"Doesn't get better than this!"

All that was within the 10 minutes I had Breakfast on this morning.

Enthusiasm is one thing. Hyperbole just gets annoying.

[muzzer]

It reminded me of the Booker Prize show on BBC news the other evening when they didn't have a feed from the podium. Being the one real OB thing they had to sort out. The presenter and pundits did brilliantly in the circs I thought. CB-H this morning must have been livid, I would have been. How can you make someone sound off-mike? Other than by them being by the wrong mike and the right mike not being switched on? It's not rocket science is it.

[mercia]

surely they wouldn't have had to completely decamp to a different studio just because one microphone was switched off ? (not that I know anything about these things)

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes , sadly, it did come across like that......

...largely because it was exactly like that??

[french frank]

The iPlayer notice has just changed to 'No available version'. A pity, as I had one point I wanted to recheck (and it isn't included in the playlist).

They started playing what I thought was the little band in Don Giovanni playing Non più andrai. But apart from saying that it was 'Mozart quoting Mozart' at the beginning, the back announcement was on the lines that if you wrote as much music as Mozart you could be forgiven for 'reusing' some of your material. I wondered if it was me who misidentified it. If not, I wouldn't have called this an example of 'reusing' his material. I heard no explanation.

[antongould]

...largely because it was exactly like that??

Indeed - I appreciate the correct legal interpretation .......