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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThe frantic chummy handover is an indication that the BBC would like it all to be one programme.
It didn't say anything about serving the audience that had been loyal to the station for so many years - no wonder they're not pleased.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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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThe frantic chummy handover is an indication that the BBC would like it all to be one programme. However, I look forward to the day soon when Clemmie's successor hand over to Rob's successor, and the first item is not yet another polka harmonised by the 3-chord trick, but something atonal. That would wake people up!
not necessarily......
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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budscott
Well I gave the new no-phonein BS (that's the right acronym for sure!) a go. I lasted less than 10 minutes. Most of that 10 minutes was about what's coming up, emails, etc. rather than music. Back to Rock Around the Baroque for me!
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThat's part of the problem. Verbal piffle is more important than music.
I will have to do a new analysis, but if the programme still gives 30 mins (20%) of the time to speech, the music items average 5 mins each: when they veer between Porpora and George Gershwin it's hard to see who the programme appeals to.
[Does the Weinberger have to be Schwanda the Bagpiper and the Gershwin frequently An American in Paris, in a different arrangement?]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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I popped in to the BS for the first time in a while just to see if anything had changed.
Phone-in gone.
Otherwise it was all exactly the same plus the "dance" theme which would appear to cover any old piece of music that could remotely be associated with dance or have dance in the title. All to be put into the "dance box" where listeners can retrieve it at any time and create their own play list. Do you think anyone actually does that? Is the 365 days of British music still available for recall through the BBC website? I wouldn't have a clue and perhaps more to the point, I couldn't care less.
Ruslan and Ludmilla
Dance of the Seven Veils
a little bit of jazz ('cos it's Jazz Day. Niiiiice. Coooool. )
Waffle, waffle, tenuous links to other programmes during the day: "Here's XXX XXX playing Chopin. His wife is XXX and she will be on Suzy Klein's show ...."
"And here's Sarah Walker in a lovely blue dress to tell us what's on EC".
Click. Off.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI popped in to the BS for the first time in a while just to see if anything had changed.
Phone-in gone.
Otherwise it was all exactly the same plus the "dance" theme which would appear to cover any old piece of music that could remotely be associated with dance or have dance in the title. All to be put into the "dance box" where listeners can retrieve it at any time and create their own play list. Do you think anyone actually does that? Is the 365 days of British music still available for recall through the BBC website? I wouldn't have a clue and perhaps more to the point, I couldn't care less.
Ruslan and Ludmilla
Dance of the Seven Veils
a little bit of jazz ('cos it's Jazz Day. Niiiiice. Coooool. )
Waffle, waffle, tenuous links to other programmes during the day: "Here's XXX XXX playing Chopin. His wife is XXX and she will be on Suzy Klein's show ...."
"And here's Sarah Walker in a lovely blue dress to tell us what's on EC".
Click. Off.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI know it's not the Breakfast Programme but this morning on Essential Classics Sarah Walker said to her celebrity guest the chef Michel Roux Jr that "pasta was a great invention". I've heard it all now!
[Damn fine cook is Doc Walker herself, I'll have you know.]
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostI was going to ask Stanf if he was sure it wasn't Katie Durum!
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* In fact, you win the trofie"...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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Don Petter
Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostI know it's not the Breakfast Programme but this morning on Essential Classics Sarah Walker said to her celebrity guest the chef Michel Roux Jr that "pasta was a great invention". I've heard it all now!
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