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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12815

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    I think it's more: "Do you want the job or don't you. Because if you don't, there are plenty out there who do."

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    I'm sure you're right. Which is why all the announcers go along with this depressing downward spiral. But what makes it more depressing for me is the suspicion that some of them are 'true believers' (in the same way that I think Blair really 'believed' in the Iraq escapade). Or they've all been brainwashed into their current happyspeak...

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    • Petrolhead

      Did not listen last night. Someone else I never tire of getting an earful of is Donald Macleod. 'Composer of the Week' is a wonderful 'template' of how to mix music and chat on Radio 3; made the more so by Mr Macleod's dulcet tones and dignified enthusiasm.

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      • doversoul1
        Ex Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 7132

        Originally posted by vinteuil
        But what makes it more depressing for me is the suspicion that some of them are 'true believers' (in the same way that I think Blair really 'believed' in the Iraq escapade). Or they've all been brainwashed into their current happyspeak...
        Even more depressing suspicion I have is that some of them have been specially brought in to ‘spearhead’ the current happyspeak…

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        • Norfolk Born

          If you're referring to 'Through The Night' then, yes, that was 'im.

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          • Paul Sherratt

            Ofca, the good voice was the assured master of the controls at 11pm.
            'im !

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            • Norfolk Born

              11pm last night was Nick Luscombe. JS came along at 1 a.m.

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              • Paul Sherratt

                Ofca,

                I was after the name of the continuity chap who introduced young NL

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Dear Sara / Rob / Martin

                  I look back with affection on my annual week in Skegness with Auntie Gladys at the Sunnyside Up B & B. Unfortunately on our last visit Auntie choked on a bone in her breakfast kipper and sadly passed away. Please would you play Siegfried's Funeral March to bring back memories of those happy times. Yours ever ......................

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                  • Bax-of-Delights
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 745

                    Dear Rob/Sara/Martin

                    I can clearly remember, back in the summer of 69, indulging in what could be deemed "Ugandan discussions" with a young lady upon a rocky outcrop on the North Cornish coast. I'd be delighted (although the young lady whose name I cannot now remember may have an alternative view) if you could play "Tintagel" as a souvenir....
                    Yours, in sport
                    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                    • Norfolk Born

                      Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post
                      Ofca,

                      I was after the name of the continuity chap who introduced young NL
                      Sorry for the misunderstanding. Might it have been John Shea? (Whoever it was, I share your enthusiasm. The quality of his voice reminded me of two earlier Radio 3 stalwarts: Tony Scotland and Cormack Rigby.)

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30281

                        Ofca - you were right.
                        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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                        • Norfolk Born

                          Thank you, ff, on both our behalfs (behalves?) - or even on behalf of both of us.

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                          • aeolium
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3992

                            Another journalistic contribution here. Perhaps as it is directed at R3 generally rather than just Breakfast, it should have had its own thread, but I couldn't be bothered to start one, and it does rehearse arguments familiar here.

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12815

                              aeolium - the Michael White piece in the Telegraph is a good summing up, I think.
                              Incidentally - there is a thread on this - on Platform 3 "feeble telegraph fluff"

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                              • aeolium
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 3992

                                So there is, vinteuil, though it might have been a bit harsh to include this article under a thread headed "feeble telegraph fluff" as this one seems quite a bit more substantial.

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