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  • bb

    What sort of radio programme would appeal to you in the morning?

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30301

      Originally posted by bb View Post
      What sort of radio programme would appeal to you in the morning?
      If you're asking me something more in line with Morning on 3. Maybe av. 4-6 pieces per hour. No tweets &c. The news on the hour (I could just about take it on the half hour - but definitely not every 15 minutes; and no newspaper headlines). Trails only just before the news (if hourly), but best if just given by the announcer. I would personally prefer each programme to be hand-crafted with no clashes, like Eric Coates, Scott Joplin, John Williams tossed in between Bach, Monteverdi &c. No single movements. Short, intelligent introductions to the music.
      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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      • Black Swan

        Originally posted by french frank View Post
        If you're asking me something more in line with Morning on 3. Maybe av. 4-6 pieces per hour. No tweets &c. The news on the hour (I could just about take it on the half hour - but definitely not every 15 minutes; and no newspaper headlines). Trails only just before the news (if hourly), but best if just given by the announcer. I would personally prefer each programme to be hand-crafted with no clashes, like Eric Coates, Scott Joplin, John Williams tossed in between Bach, Monteverdi &c. No single movements. Short, intelligent introductions to the music.
        Amen, FF, I couldn't agree with you more.....

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        • Richard Tarleton

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          I would personally prefer each programme to be hand-crafted
          Don't you mean "curated", ff?

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30301

            Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
            Don't you mean "curated", ff?
            Well, I understand it is "curated" now.

            (“Every single thing is curated and created from the heart.")

            The heart is obviously in the wrong place - I would love to know what the curatorial criteria are.
            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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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5749

              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              If you're asking me something more in line with Morning on 3. Maybe av. 4-6 pieces per hour. No tweets &c. The news on the hour (I could just about take it on the half hour - but definitely not every 15 minutes; and no newspaper headlines). Trails only just before the news (if hourly), but best if just given by the announcer. I would personally prefer each programme to be hand-crafted with no clashes, like Eric Coates, Scott Joplin, John Williams tossed in between Bach, Monteverdi &c. No single movements. Short, intelligent introductions to the music.


              Mr McKinney this morning said that 'unless you've been living on the moon' you would know that the Oscars are tonight. This awful cliche suggests in one short phrase: (a) an assumption by said Mr M that the Oscars are meaningful to and valued by everyone (perhaps excluding lunatics ); (b) the cultural values of Radio 2.5; (c) a kind of contempt - no other word comes to mind - for the listener as invdividual; (d) appalling lack of taste.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30301

                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                Mr McKinney this morning said that 'unless you've been living on the moon' you would know that the Oscars are tonight. This awful cliche suggests in one short phrase: (a) an assumption by said Mr M that the Oscars are meaningful to and valued by everyone (perhaps excluding lunatics ); (b) the cultural values of Radio 2.5; (c) a kind of contempt - no other word comes to mind - for the listener as invdividual; (d) appalling lack of taste.
                Well argued, kernel. I had seen something about the Oscars on the news website, but as neither the event nor the films were of any interest I pitched my tent on the moon
                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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                • Old Grumpy
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 3617

                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  Well argued, kernel. I had seen something about the Oscars on the news website, but as neither the event nor the films were of any interest I pitched my tent on the moon
                  FF

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                  • EdgeleyRob
                    Guest
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12180

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    If you're asking me something more in line with Morning on 3. Maybe av. 4-6 pieces per hour. No tweets &c. The news on the hour (I could just about take it on the half hour - but definitely not every 15 minutes; and no newspaper headlines). Trails only just before the news (if hourly), but best if just given by the announcer. I would personally prefer each programme to be hand-crafted with no clashes, like Eric Coates, Scott Joplin, John Williams tossed in between Bach, Monteverdi &c. No single movements. Short, intelligent introductions to the music.
                    Spot on.

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                    • muzzer
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2013
                      • 1193

                      Sounds like TTN to me. And I agree.

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                      • James Wonnacott
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 248

                        "The Oscars are tonight" doesn't make sense anyway.
                        If the moon really is celebrity-free I'd love it there.
                        I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8785

                          Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post
                          "The Oscars are tonight" doesn't make sense anyway.
                          If the moon really is celebrity-free I'd love it there.
                          Even l would have to admit that the morning after Breakfast was spoilt by massive over emphasis on this IMVVHO Non Event......

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                          • Old Grumpy
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 3617

                            SM-P on In Tune tonight - what is going on?

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                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                              SM-P on In Tune tonight - what is going on?
                              What about SM-P on In Tune tonight? I ask because, as with Breakfast, I do not listen to the programme.

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                              • Old Grumpy
                                Full Member
                                • Jan 2011
                                • 3617

                                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                                What about SM-P on In Tune tonight? I ask because, as with Breakfast, I do not listen to the programme.
                                Well, for those of us who do (listen to both) it was quite a nice surprise - that's all really. I presume SK was indisposed.

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