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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostYou'd think Ruthers could afford a bed for the night, after all those hits.
Charterhouse.. Spent a particularly long day in the field there,IIRC, not getting much movement off the pitch or through the air with my medium pacers.
Anyway, have a good trip AG, sounds fab.
( is it really windy?)
Cheers ts........Eton versus Charterhouse away one presumes.....
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Originally posted by antongould View PostCheers ts........Eton versus Charterhouse away one presumes.....
Although by sheer coincidence I have also played football at Eton.Last edited by teamsaint; 20-03-15, 23:30.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by antongould View PostWe are in the Windy City Rumpole and, to attempt to catch the coat tails of your name dropping, find ourselves on the same floor as Mike Rutherford - he of Genisis and Charterhouse....."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by antongould View PostWe are in the Windy City Rumpole and, to attempt to catch the coat tails of your name dropping, find ourselves on the same floor as Mike Rutherford - he of Genisis and Charterhouse.....
One for the discriminating Radio 6 Music affithionathoes, I'll be boundIt 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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I don't thonk there have been for a few days, but I didn't catch any the the "show" at the weekend, but heard most of it today and there was no phone-in.Originally posted by french frank View PostUm, serious question this: have there been any interesting phone-ins lately on B'fast? Or even just ... phone-ins?
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Originally posted by AndyJW View PostI don't thonk there have been for a few days, but I didn't catch any the the "show" at the weekend, but heard most of it today and there was no phone-in."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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no phone in but must we continue to suffer PT/CBH doing their dreadful take on the news and what is on the front page of the papers .... if one wanted the news one might have tuned to R4 no? indeed why is there any news at all on R3 .... not in the remit and not well served by the lip service coverage ... all part of the great menu juggler's mish mash ... i bet he does not put news bulletins in the intervals at Aldeburgh!
and thanks for this gem today!
iirc this was quoted exactly
To recent generations, Mary Alwyn was known as the devoted wife of the composer William Alwyn. When, in 1997, Chandos Records brought out the first of two CDs of the music of Doreen Carwithen, younger listeners sat up with astonishment: the woman whose life seemed to have been devoted to easing that of her husband was revealed to be a substantial creative personality in her own right.Last edited by aka Calum Da Jazbo; 23-03-15, 12:59.According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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In 2003 listeners were complaining about the introduction of the news headlines on the half hour. Most people would settle for 5 minutes on the hour but now we look back fondly on the time when it was every half hour.
This really is Radio 3 adopting a 'Breakfast Show' template, found throughout popular radio. When we respond to the Trust (pointing out that in examining how Radio 3 conformed to Classic FM it only considered aspects of the musical choices and completely ignored the offscourings in between) we shall repeat that all these are a problem.
[Was listening to CFM over lunch in the tratt. Remember someone ringing in with a request for a wedding anniversary ... A Mrs Trellis, I think - not sure where she said she was from ]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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Sorry, I know this isn't exactly a popular subject but the weekly Specialist Classical Chart podcast seems to have disappeared . . the webpage is 'empty' and apparently it's not showing up on UK i-tunes either.
Anyone help or know the reason why it isn't posted anymore?
I appreciate any answers, kindly or otherwise .. I shall then retreat back into my dark corner..."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by Radio64 View PostSorry, I know this isn't exactly a popular subject but the weekly Specialist Classical Chart podcast seems to have disappeared . . the webpage is 'empty' and apparently it's not showing up on UK i-tunes either.
Anyone help or know the reason why it isn't posted anymore?
I appreciate any answers, kindly or otherwise .. I shall then retreat back into my dark corner...
Yes I flagged that at #5167 above - perhaps the new broom has swept it away. After initial teething lunacy involving André Rieu, it was quite a good podcast for the car, used to listen to it for interesting new releases....
I won't miss it - there are other ways of keeping up without the clammy wet rock performances..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Yes I flagged that at #5167 above - perhaps the new broom has swept it away. After initial teething lunacy involving André Rieu, it was quite a good podcast for the car, used to listen to it for interesting new releases....
I won't miss it - there are other ways of keeping up without the clammy wet rock performances...
Shame. I'll miss it."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."
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Originally posted by antongould View PostGenisisOriginally posted by french frank View PostaffithionathoesOriginally posted by AndyJW View Postthonk
I know, I know - I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
Originally posted by antongould View Postto attempt to catch the coat tails of your name dropping, find ourselves on the same floor as Mike Rutherford
Actually: I've found the date - it was this gig http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/02/07/1988 (I am not named. I was lurking in the background with my trombone and other assorted amateur blowers and pluckers...)
And I've found that it's on video...!
Thanks for triggering these memories, antonio!
(NB: nor am I Chris Barber who totters on with his trombone at the end of that clip!)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI suppose to keep the flame alive I could confess to having played a gig (for charidee, it was) with Mr Rutherford along with Messrs Collins, Clapton, Starr and others inc. Gary Brooker, who co-wrote 'Whiter Shade of Pale'...
Actually: I've found the date - it was this gig http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-tour/02/07/1988 (I am not named. I was lurking in the background with my trombone and other assorted amateur blowers and pluckers...)
And I've found that it's on video...!
Thanks for triggering these memories, antonio!
(NB: nor am I Chris Barber who totters on with his trombone at the end of that clip!)
OG
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I listened to yesterday's Breakfast (an anagram of Petroc Trelawny is Twylo Carpenter: nephew of Humphrey?).
As usual the music took up almost exactly two hours, the speech including news 30 minutes. That's as ever.
The trails - such as they were - seemed to come just before news breaks, which is good; one for a BBC Four quiz programme and the rest for Radio 3 programmes: DM for CotW, SK for In Tune, IS for EBU Day and, finally, the usual one for EC with Rob. Not a lot of change there
The news of some sort still every quarter hour but ... I did feel the other irrelevancies were less relentless and intrusive: a couple of email suggestions and low key invitations to tweet which didn't seem to have much response. No phone-in or wake-up call.
Not keen on five weather-themed pieces. As far as the playlist went: I know, I know, but I could have done wi'out the Herrmann film music and the Johann Strauss II (as mentioned, now miraculously changed from Johann Sebastian Strauss!). Although I admire Fl & Sw and think them funny, I'm not personally in the mood for them at Breakfast, nor the Irish jig, pace Jordi Savall's presence.
Other than that: Sweelinck, Carwithen and, I thought, the Malcolm Sargent were interesting; plus Zemlinsky (!), Senaillé and Gigout were pleasant enough. The Vivaldi and Mendelssohn were attractive and it was, on average, veering towards about as light as it need be, with four single movements (there have been more). My feeling was that Petroc (or Twylo, as I now think of him) made the Usual Format rather more tolerable than I've heard it in the past.
This type of programme will never be to my taste. If I'm going to listen to music for 45 minutes, I'd rather have a Beethoven string quartet and nothing else. I try to visualise a playlist which is (musically) coherent from beginning to end. But I suspect no one else would like thatIt 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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