Originally posted by ardcarp
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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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 french frank View PostMy theory is that she gets to do the weekends because she lives near Salford which is where the weekend Breakfast is broadcast from. She is a broadcaster who is heard most often (I think) on Radio 5 Live.
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Good, 'cos I'm from Salford and I don't speak like a dalek.
There's a perception, encouraged by the BBC, that everyone in the country speaks with a regional accent. There are thousands of men and women living in the Manchester/Salford area, who can speak "well". I dare say the same applies to other cities around Britain - even Middlesbrough (but we get Steph McGovern all the same).
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostGood, 'cos I'm from Salford and I don't speak like a dalek.
There's a perception, encouraged by the BBC, that everyone in the country speaks with a regional accent. There are thousands of men and women living in the Manchester/Salford area, who can speak "well". I dare say the same applies to other cities around Britain - even Middlesbrough (but we get Steph McGovern all the same).
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post...There's a perception, encouraged by the BBC, that everyone in the country speaks with a regional accent. There are thousands of men and women living in the Manchester/Salford area, who can speak "well"...
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Originally posted by jean View PostAm I to conclude that someone who speaks with a regional accent speaks badly?
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostI'd like to emphasise that I am not complaining about a regional accent! In fact I didn't even notice a regional accent. It was the halting style of delivery and inability to negotiate text without frequent fumbles that I found disconcerting.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 french frank View PostIn any case, I said I think she LIVES near Salford. But she appears to have very little familiarity with classical music (remember Pierre Boolay?) which possibly accounts for the hesitancy.
Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostA delight to hear him. If Martin Handley isn't rostered, he's a very acceptable alternative...... He doesn't sound like someone who's been told "Its only Sunday morning, here's a script with what to say, off you go.....".
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Originally posted by french frank View PostIn any case, I said I think she LIVES near Salford. But she appears to have very little familiarity with classical music (remember Pierre Boolay?) which possibly accounts for the hesitancy.
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I don't understand why the weekend Breakfast comes from Salford and the rest of the week from London, unless Radio 3 gets booted out of its studio at the weekends for some other programme. At any rate, there have been various signs that Radio 3 has been under some strain to find presenters for the weekends. We've had local radio presenters from Radio York and Radio Merseyside (VM apparently lives in Cheshire). Martin has a life apart from Radio 3/BBC and presumably can't be asked to do every weekend.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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At any rate, there have been various signs that Radio 3 has been under some strain to find presenters for the weekends
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostEr...they presumably get paid? And going back to my original post, forget the 65 million nationwide, surely someone in Greater Manchester (a) knows a bit about music (b) can read aloud fluently and (c) wants a job?
Tom McKinney is better qualified than some (and has perhaps improved?). But a couple of other BBC presenters who were geographically well placed, and sometimes introduce the evening concert as well, will probably never be much good: the BBC couldn't just say, 'Would you mind boning up on a bit of classical music, please, as it's Radio 3?' If they've shown little or no interest up to their 40s they're not going to pick up much now just to do a new job. But perhaps the producers could build programmes around what the presenter has just learnt?
The thing about the presenter we've recently been discussing is that she IS an experienced broadcaster. But put a script in front of her that might as well be about oblique case-marking in Indo-Aryan and the ums and ers proliferate.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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