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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3596

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    And if R3 needs listeners to suggest pieces, I don't see the need to tell everyone on air who that person was. Stuff a fiver in an envelope to them with a thank-you note.
    FF, are you suggesting those requesting send a fiver to the BBC , or the BBC send a fiver to the requester?

    OG

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30235

      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      FF, are you suggesting those requesting send a fiver to the BBC , or the BBC send a fiver to the requester?

      OG
      The latter - for being deprived of their one minute moment of fame!
      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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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26523

        Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post
        Georgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous
        Her voice was ever soft,
        Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman


        King Lear, Act 5 sc. 3


        "...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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        • Anastasius
          Full Member
          • Mar 2015
          • 1842

          Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post
          Georgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous .....
          I could listen to her all day as I think she has a fabulous voice and, unlike all the other recent and not so recent (no-names-no-packdrill but we all know who) female presenters, she does not sound as if she is reading from Janet and John Book 2.

          She really is a breath of fresh air.
          Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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          • ahinton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 16122

            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
            I could listen to her all day as I think she has a fabulous voice and, unlike all the other recent and not so recent (no-names-no-packdrill but we all know who) female presenters, she does not sound as if she is reading from Janet and John Book 2.
            !!!

            Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?

            Originally posted by Anastasius View Post
            She really is a breath of fresh air.
            Better that than a breath of hot ditto...

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            • Anastasius
              Full Member
              • Mar 2015
              • 1842

              Originally posted by ahinton View Post
              !!!

              Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?


              .....
              Correct!
              Fewer Smart things. More smart people.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30235

                Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?
                What! You mean you missed her 'Gentilhombre'? Worth listening to for that initial Spanish 'g' alone.
                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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                • muzzer
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2013
                  • 1190

                  And as they have given us all this week GM, so they taketh away at the weekend with TMc.............

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                  • Paulie55
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2012
                    • 87

                    Originally posted by antongould View Post
                    Is this the proper place to say that I enjoy Breakfast? I find the mix and length of pieces about right, both presenters excellent and the texts, emails, newspapers and trailers no real "problem".
                    Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key. Too much singing as well.

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                    • cloughie
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22114

                      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                      Her voice was ever soft,
                      Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman


                      King Lear, Act 5 sc. 3


                      Just that old sweet voice keeps Georgia on our minds!

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                      • alycidon
                        Full Member
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 459

                        Originally posted by Paulie55 View Post
                        Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key. Too much singing as well.
                        Yes, Paulie, I completely agree with your comments. I have long since given up on Breakfast as being too painful to listen to. Just my personal opinion, of course.
                        Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                        • ahinton
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          Originally posted by french frank View Post
                          What! You mean you missed her 'Gentilhombre'? Worth listening to for that initial Spanish 'g' alone.
                          Indeed so (and I missed your post until now! - sorry)...

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            Originally posted by Paulie55 View Post
                            Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key.
                            Indeed - and with all those tweets, it might only be a matter of time before we start getting them from Donald Duck - I mean Trump - I mean Dump-Truck - urging BBC R3 to make Breakfast great again...

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                            • ahinton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 16122

                              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                              [I][B]Her voice was ever soft,
                              Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman
                              The Bard had clearly not foreseen the virtues of high sopranos of the calibre of Jane Manning and Sarah Leonard...

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8778

                                All the top music you could ever need on The Squire's Breakfast .... yesterday (?) Mieczyslaw Weinberg and this morning The Blaydon Races .......

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