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  • Serial_Apologist
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 37589

    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    Whilst awaiting FF's thesis on the matter () I wonder whether this is another fear of silence: the music stops, so something-has-to-fill-the-gap paranoia takes over.
    IfIstoptalkingyouwillstoplistening!

    Interestingly, this is the very opposite of a technique used by a vicar whom family knew, famous for delivering boring sermons. Periodically he would stop suddenly in mid-flow; the effect of this on the congregation was remarkable - anyone who had fallen asleep would instantly wake up!

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    • Eine Alpensinfonie
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 20570

      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
      IfIstoptalkingyouwillstoplistening!

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      • Sir Velo
        Full Member
        • Oct 2012
        • 3225

        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
        IfIstoptalkingyouwillstoplistening!

        Interestingly, this is the very opposite of a technique used by a vicar whom family knew, famous for delivering boring sermons. Periodically he would stop suddenly in mid-flow; the effect of this on the congregation was remarkable - anyone who had fallen asleep would instantly wake up!
        Shades of the !

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20570

          Punctuation has returned. Much better this morning, and I have the impression that the presenter is genuinely trying to communicate, showing respect for the listener.

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          • antongould
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8778

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            Punctuation has returned. Much better this morning, and I have the impression that the presenter is genuinely trying to communicate, showing respect for the listener.
            I haven' noticed a massive difference but it does prove once and for all that the Great and the Good of R3 read these outpourings.......

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3596

              Originally posted by antongould View Post
              I haven' noticed a massive difference but it does prove once and for all that the Great and the Good of R3 read these outpourings.......

              Except he played The Lark Ascending again!

              Doesn't worry me - I quite like it (still).

              The text reading machine was off though, disaster!!

              OG

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              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 20570

                I spoke too soon. Garbled gapless streams of words have returned, as have tweets, trailers and war-horses.

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                • antongould
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8778

                  Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                  I spoke too soon. Garbled gapless streams of words have returned, as have tweets, trailers and war-horses.
                  Perhaps there is something in the coffee

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                  • french frank
                    Administrator/Moderator
                    • Feb 2007
                    • 30235

                    An interesting (to me!) parallel on a visual level. The new editor of a newspaper where I was a sub decreed a new design: all headlines to be written 'full out' (to take up the entire space possible given the point size) and stories to be shorter so that as many different stories could be included on the page (so that people could skim them all easily and quickly read the ones that interested them). Also, all paragraphs had to consist of sentences seldom exceeding 13 words.

                    This was regarded as 'tabloid style' - for mass consumption.
                    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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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114

                      Just watched the bigging up of Strictly with the announcement of one of this year's contestants. Has Radio 3 ever had a representative? Maybe there should be one to up the profile of R3. Petroc? Suzy? Clemmy? KD? Rob?

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                      • Richard Tarleton

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        Just watched the bigging up of Strictly with the announcement of one of this year's contestants. Has Radio 3 ever had a representative? Maybe there should be one to up the profile of R3. Petroc? Suzy? Clemmy? KD? Rob?
                        Is this why J Vine has been on EC?? (haven't been listening).

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30235

                          Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
                          Is this why J Vine has been on EC?? (haven't been listening).
                          I have a vague memory that someone in the past had been on SCD and was asked about it on Essential Classics(?). Someone with an Italian name? The seamless blending of the BBC brands.
                          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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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25193

                            I am trying to think of something less interesting than radio presenters interviewing radio presenters.
                            Very long delays at small airports springs to mind.
                            This isn't going to help lift my long time boycott of vine.
                            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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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30235

                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              I am trying to think of something less interesting than radio presenters interviewing radio presenters.
                              Very long delays at small airports springs to mind.
                              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
                                • 3596

                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                I am trying to think of something less interesting than radio presenters interviewing radio presenters.
                                Very long delays at small airports springs to mind.
                                Delays (especially long ones) at any airports, I would have thought - a staycation is perhaps the answer. Then you can get stuck for hours on the M5, A303... (take your pick).

                                OG

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