The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=cloughie;805569]Blackburn chirping at the break of day?

I watched a programme where Brian Turner goes back to ‘celebrities’ roots’ and Blackburn was the subject and he came over as quite a loner. I have never really warmed to him and for someone who has been involved with , and probably made a lot of money from, music - he never seems to share a love of it in the way that eg Johnnie Walker, or his predecessor on Sounds of the 60s, Brian Matthew![/QUOTE

I don't think he takes himself too seriously, and the jokes are mercifully short.

[antongould]

Blackburn chirping at the break of day?

I watched a programme where Brian Turner goes back to ‘celebrities’ roots’ and Blackburn was the subject and he came over as quite a loner. I have never really warmed to him and for someone who has been involved with , and probably made a lot of money from, music - he never seems to share a love of it in the way that eg Johnnie Walker, or his predecessor on Sounds of the 60s, Brian Matthew!

Why does Johnnie Walker now have his lady wife on his show ..... ???? ..... Alkers she ain’t ........ IMVVHO .......

[french frank]

Why does Johnnie Walker now have his lady wife on his show ..... ???? ..... Alkers she ain’t

So worth a listen, then? IYVHO

[antongould]

So worth a listen, then? IYVHO

Oh very cutting, I really have missed this ........ she glories in the name of Tiggy ....... ‘midst the pit heaps Elizabeth still finds more support .....

[french frank]

she glories in the name of Tiggy

Well, she's a radio presenter on Abbey 104 in her own right. She's on her husband's show because it's coming from their own house. Look! you can read all about it here:

[Stanfordian]

The differences between lockdown and 'normal' schedules are really making themselves felt now, sadly. Two trails and one set of news headlines 'fitted' into a half hour segment do little to facilitate a satisfactory programme of music items (regardless of one's view of 'snippets' etc) which then have to be shoehorned between such intrusions, and the presenter talk.

[antongould]

Well, she's a radio presenter on Abbey 104 in her own right. She's on her husband's show because it's coming from their own house. Look! you can read all about it here:

Oh come on ff be fair, as an avid, if secret, listener to Skellers you will recall that when he broadcast from “ the Mountains of North London” we heard nothing from Lady Skellers only the occasional, distant song from the dustbin men .....

[Paulie55]

... and just as I thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, the programme entered with a gasping gabble between EA and TS.

What on earth is the matter with TS? He always sounds like he's running a maratho and cannot get all his words out in time. An appalling presenter!

[LMcD]

What on earth is the matter with TS? He always sounds like he's running a maratho and cannot get all his words out in time. An appalling presenter!

I think he tries to disguise his self-absorption and self-importance as breathless enthusiasm which we are all expected to share because - he believes - if we do we will all consequently (a) know more, (b) feel better in ourselves and therefore (c) be grateful. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but I find his frenetic, excitable delivery ('it promises to be a wild night at the Proms') so annoying and exhausting that I switch off, fully aware that he might have something to say that might be of interest and I shall never know what it was!

[french frank]

Oh come on ff be fair, as an avid, if secret, listener to Skellers you will recall that when he broadcast from “ the Mountains of North London” we heard nothing from Lady Skellers only the occasional, distant song from the dustbin men .....

I am somewhat disturbed that your grammar seems to imply an accusation that I also listen to this infernal programme. I might have listened once when it first started and that was once too many. I have no feelings about the subsequent presenters as my view is that they would be unable to rescue this train crash whoever they were. As to hearing nothing of this Lady Skellers on the programme:

1) Perhaps there is no Lady Skellers
2) Perhaps there is a Lady Skellers but she has no wish to be in any way involved with the programme
3) Perhaps she would have no personal objection but is a very dedicated full-time doctor working in the ICU at the local hospital
4) Perhaps she is not a doctor, but doesn't speak English
5) Perhaps she does speak English but is stranded in self-isolation in Sao Paolo and does not wish to risk travelling home
6) Perhaps she is not in Brazil, but is looking after Mr Skellers's elderly parents in Auchtermuchty while he has all the fun of broadcasting
7) Perhaps there are no parents in Auchtermuchty, but she has to be at home looking after Skellers's children Cosimo and Gentian while they are on holiday

There you have 7 perfectly possible explanations for the absence of the putative person. Why you object to Mrs Walker's appearances, I don't know, since she is herself a broadcaster and, as we all know, these two-handers with the presenters sparking off each other with their differering talents and personalities, add to the general liveliness and appeal of a programme. I hope you are not being misogynistic here.

[DracoM]

I think he tries to disguise his self-absorption and self-importance as breathless enthusiasm which we are all expected to share because - he believes - if we do we will all consequently (a) know more, (b) feel better in ourselves and therefore (c) be grateful. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but I find his frenetic, excitable delivery ('it promises to be a wild night at the Proms') so annoying and exhausting that I switch off, fully aware that he might have something to say that might be of interest and I shall never know what it was!

Precisely.
For the first time I can ever remember having done so, I actually switched OFF Record Review after fifteen minutes. The idea of Service doing a two-fer in blaffing and gulping, interrupting, gasping, frenetic imitation of the apparently transcendental and -selon BBC R3 - utterly irreplaceable AMcG was just too much.

[antongould]

I am somewhat disturbed that your grammar seems to imply an accusation that I also listen to this infernal programme. I might have listened once when it first started and that was once too many. I have no feelings about the subsequent presenters as my view is that they would be unable to rescue this train crash whoever they were. As to hearing nothing of this Lady Skellers on the programme:

1) Perhaps there is no Lady Skellers
2) Perhaps there is a Lady Skellers but she has no wish to be in any way involved with the programme
3) Perhaps she would have no personal objection but is a very dedicated full-time doctor working in the ICU at the local hospital
4) Perhaps she is not a doctor, but doesn't speak English
5) Perhaps she does speak English but is stranded in self-isolation in Sao Paolo and does not wish to risk travelling home
6) Perhaps she is not in Brazil, but is looking after Mr Skellers's elderly parents in Auchtermuchty while he has all the fun of broadcasting
7) Perhaps there are no parents in Auchtermuchty, but she has to be at home looking after Skellers's children Cosimo and Gentian while they are on holiday

There you have 7 perfectly possible explanations for the absence of the putative person. Why you object to Mrs Walker's appearances, I don't know, since she is herself a broadcaster and, as we all know, these two-handers with the presenters sparking off each other with their differering talents and personalities, add to the general liveliness and appeal of a programme. I hope you are not being misogynistic here.

I know little of Lady Skellers other than two Christmases ago she melted her bifocals with the Christmas turkey - see what you are missing - as to the spark between Johnnie and Tiggy, I would suggest there is more in a damp 1927 Ever Ready battery. If you suspect me of misogyny I am probably guilty as suspected .....

[Nick Armstrong]

Precisely.
For the first time I can ever remember having done so, I actually switched OFF Record Review after fifteen minutes.

For the first time ever, I deliberately avoided the entire programme (for the reasons you mention in your full post). It was never going to be tolerable.

[kernelbogey]

I think he tries to disguise his self-absorption and self-importance as breathless enthusiasm which we are all expected to share because - he believes - if we do we will all consequently (a) know more, (b) feel better in ourselves and therefore (c) be grateful. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but I find his frenetic, excitable delivery ('it promises to be a wild night at the Proms') so annoying and exhausting that I switch off, fully aware that he might have something to say that might be of interest and I shall never know what it was!

I happened to switch on R3 randomly yesterday, to hear some potentially interesting exchanges about key between TS and a harpsichord expert. Then TS laughed throughout an example being played on the harpsichord - so off it went. Just unprofessional.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A staggering bit of news on Breakfast this morning. The Rhine has been greatly extended and is now the second longest river in Europe.
I know the Aral Sea has largely dried up in Russia, but I never thought there’d be any such issues with the Volga.