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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26533

    Originally posted by LMcD View Post
    Link doesn't seem to work (?) but I'll find it on Sounds.
    I think you left it too long since my post, and the 30 days have expired...
    "...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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    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9184

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      The Bacup connection ......
      Always good to have a Bacup...

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      • antongould
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8782

        Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
        Always good to have a Bacup...
        Excellent indeed OOO ......

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        • LMcD
          Full Member
          • Sep 2017
          • 8458

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          I think you left it too long since my post, and the 30 days have expired...
          Note to self: always check date of post before replying or clicking on link.

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          • oddoneout
            Full Member
            • Nov 2015
            • 9184

            I've come to the conclusion that the return to 'normal' for Breakfast and EC doesn't represent an improvement. The 'At Home' version, with few interruptions from news bulletins, and no need for the frenetic and intrusive Proms trails(as the season was on hold), was able to build up a pleasant relaxed atmosphere with much better continuity and longer stretches of music in relation to talk. I won't stop listening(yet) but I don't engage as much now. I have seen a better way - pity the powers that be haven't...

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26533

              Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
              ...no need for the frenetic and intrusive Proms trails(as the season was on hold), was able to build up a pleasant relaxed atmosphere with much better continuity and longer stretches of music in relation to talk. I won't stop listening(yet) but I don't engage as much now. I have seen a better way - pity the powers that be haven't...

              I’m still listening occasionally to one or two recorded Handleys... and agree with you. Are the Proms trails back? I agree, it’s blissful without them
              "...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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              • oddoneout
                Full Member
                • Nov 2015
                • 9184

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                I’m still listening occasionally to one or two recorded Handleys... and agree with you. Are the Proms trails back? I agree, it’s blissful without them
                And how! Hyperventilating Tom Service in many cases, noisy, intrusive in too may others and far too often completely wrecking the mood of what has just finished playing.

                WE'RE R3 LISTENERS FCOL, WE KNOW THE PROMS ARE ON. AND WE KNOW THEY ARE ARCHIVE RECORDINGS.

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26533

                  Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                  And how! Hyperventilating Tom Service in many cases, noisy, intrusive in too may others and far too often completely wrecking the mood of what has just finished playing.

                  WE'RE R3 LISTENERS FCOL, WE KNOW THE PROMS ARE ON. AND WE KNOW THEY ARE ARCHIVE RECORDINGS.
                  I avoid live R3 and have so far managed to avoid this pestilence
                  "...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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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8458

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    I avoid live R3 and have so far managed to avoid this pestilence
                    I assume you preferred the dramatization of Camus's 'La Peste' on Radio 4!

                    As for Tom Service, I suspect he has been tasked (ugh!) with trying to enthuse Radio 3 listeners in the same way as a certain politician is trying to enthuse the population as a whole. Far be it from me to suggest which of them has been the more unsuccessful.

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                    • Serial_Apologist
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 37674

                      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                      As for Tom Service, I suspect he has been tasked (ugh!)
                      Charged, would have been a perfectly adequate word for this red rag of a presenter - especially if he had been by a very large and angy bull.

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                      • LMcD
                        Full Member
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 8458

                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                        Charged, would have been a perfectly adequate word for this red rag of a presenter - especially if he had been by a very large and angy bull.
                        'Red rag' is entirely appropriate in view of the amount of bull he spouts.

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                        • kernelbogey
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5745

                          Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes.

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26533

                            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                            Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes.

                            For this relief much thanks
                            "...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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                            • LMcD
                              Full Member
                              • Sep 2017
                              • 8458

                              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                              Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes.
                              This also belongs on the 'Good News Stories' thread, wouldn't you say? I REALLY HAVE TRIED to listen to Miss/Ms Alker, but something about the quality of her voice turned me off to the point where I turned me radio off. I do hope that doesn't mean that I'm a bad person!

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20570

                                Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                                I REALLY HAVE TRIED to listen to Miss/Ms Alker, but something about the quality of her voice turned me off to the point where I turned me radio off. I do hope that doesn't mean that I'm a bad person!
                                Well if you're a bad person, I am too. Or it could be that she's a presenter quite unsuited to Radio 3.

                                Playschool - maybe?

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