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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8774

    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    Some people simply shouldn’t be allowed on air. This morning we had a reference to an “American expresso maker”. ..
    “Expresso started as a misspelling of espresso, which came to English from Italian and refers to a strong, pressure-brewed coffee. But because expresso has so often appeared in place of espresso, we can perhaps consider it a variant. And indeed, some dictionaries now list it as such.”

    Indeed the whole fabric of society is grumbling ....... start the petition to sack her E_A and I for one will sign it ......

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    • LMcD
      Full Member
      • Sep 2017
      • 8396

      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      “Expresso started as a misspelling of espresso, which came to English from Italian and refers to a strong, pressure-brewed coffee. But because expresso has so often appeared in place of espresso, we can perhaps consider it a variant. And indeed, some dictionaries now list it as such.”

      Indeed the whole fabric of society is grumbling ....... start the petition to sack her E_A and I for one will sign it ......
      As long as she isn't replaced by Tom Service. I simply couldn't hear some of his machine-gun-delivery comments during the Kanneh-Mason Prom.

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      • LeMartinPecheur
        Full Member
        • Apr 2007
        • 4717

        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post

        Mind you Petroc’s faux pas yesterday ... introducing the hybrid Prom. The first item was taken from a Barbirolli concert that had included “Elgar’s Oboe Concerto” with Evelyn Rothwell. He did get it right later, but didn’t acknowledge the earlier blunder.
        Easy mistake to make: he was obviously thinking of Elgar's Soliloquy for oboe, written for Leon Goossens, in the orchestration by Gordon Jacob
        I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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        • seabright
          Full Member
          • Jan 2013
          • 625

          Originally posted by Jonathan View Post
          ... stop talking and play some music.
          You're so right. The chit-chat has been really taking over just lately, ever since numerous listeners have cottoned on to the fact that if they send in a lengthy detailed email, full of autobiographical detail to tie in with a piece of music, it will get read out over the air. Sometimes the waffle seems to last as long as the piece itself. In addition, the chosen music can often seem inappropriate for early morning listening, though that of course is a matter of personal taste and opinion. Nevertheless it doesn't stop me on occasion from reaching for the off-switch!

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          • oddoneout
            Full Member
            • Nov 2015
            • 9135

            Originally posted by seabright View Post
            You're so right. The chit-chat has been really taking over just lately, ever since numerous listeners have cottoned on to the fact that if they send in a lengthy detailed email, full of autobiographical detail to tie in with a piece of music, it will get read out over the air. Sometimes the waffle seems to last as long as the piece itself. In addition, the chosen music can often seem inappropriate for early morning listening, though that of course is a matter of personal taste and opinion. Nevertheless it doesn't stop me on occasion from reaching for the off-switch!
            If the trails and other adverts were taken out it would free up more time for music, not just by adding in the lost minutes but also by allowing more freedom in length of pieces as they wouldn't have to be squished in-between said pointless and counter-productive intrusions. Things do improve in Essential Classics generally in terms of quantity of 'listener input'.

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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5735

              Elizabeth Alker has just managed to mispronounce the name of her colleague Danielle Jalowiecka introducing her reading the news. Although corrected after the bulletin, it was done without apology.

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8396

                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                Elizabeth Alker has just managed to mispronounce the name of her colleague Danielle Jalowiecka introducing her reading the news. Although corrected after the bulletin, it was done without apology.
                Perhaps she might like to practise on a list of top Sri Lankan cricketers. Saturday Breakfast on Radio 3 disappeared from our personal listening schedule some time ago, but 'news from the front' is always of interest!

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                • underthecountertenor
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2011
                  • 1584

                  Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                  Elizabeth Alker has just managed to mispronounce the name of her colleague Danielle Jalowiecka introducing her reading the news. Although corrected after the bulletin, it was done without apology.
                  She managed to garble it again at 8 am (though not quite as badly as at 7, when it came out as ‘Danielle Ja-Jawovsky’ which wasn’t even close). The silence on both occasions before Danielle started reading was palpable.

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                  • LMcD
                    Full Member
                    • Sep 2017
                    • 8396

                    Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                    She managed to garble it again at 8 am (though not quite as badly as at 7, when it came out as ‘Danielle Ja-Jawovsky’ which wasn’t even close). The silence on both occasions before Danielle started reading was palpable.
                    Well, at least you can be assured that you're listening to a live broadcast - or is it a sloppily edited recording or announcement?

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                    • underthecountertenor
                      Full Member
                      • Apr 2011
                      • 1584

                      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                      Well, at least you can be assured that you're listening to a live broadcast - or is it a sloppily edited recording or announcement?
                      There has never been any doubt in my mind that Breakfast is live.

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22110

                        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                        Elizabeth Alker has just managed to mispronounce the name of her colleague Danielle Jalowiecka introducing her reading the news. Although corrected after the bulletin, it was done without apology.
                        Perhaps she should just let Danielle introduce herself whilst she has a ‘Listen Lizzie and Learn’ moment!

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30209

                          Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                          The silence on both occasions before Danielle started reading was palpable.
                          "Oh, sorry, was that my cue?"
                          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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                          • underthecountertenor
                            Full Member
                            • Apr 2011
                            • 1584

                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            "Oh, sorry, was that my cue?"

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                            • Ein Heldenleben
                              Full Member
                              • Apr 2014
                              • 6726

                              I had a mate who managed to get his own surname wrong when presenting a local radio bulletin a few decades back. He corrected it on air .That takes some doing . In their defence radio presenting is one of those jobs that looks easy but isn’t.

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                              • LMcD
                                Full Member
                                • Sep 2017
                                • 8396

                                Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
                                There has never been any doubt in my mind that Breakfast is live.
                                That reads like a back-handed compliment!
                                Perhaps we shouldn't complain too much in these difficult times - Petroc or Georgia every Monday to Friday and Martin every Sunday is a pretty good line-up in my book.

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