Michael Tanner is spot on when he comes to Elizabeth Alker. I haven't listened to a Saturday morning Breakfast since the first day her unbelievably silly voice came over the air-waves ...
The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by seabright View PostMichael Tanner is spot on when he comes to Elizabeth Alker. I haven't listened to a Saturday morning Breakfast since the first day her unbelievably silly voice came over the air-waves ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...sing-children-
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Originally posted by seabright View PostMichael Tanner is spot on when he comes to Elizabeth Alker. I haven't listened to a Saturday morning Breakfast since the first day her unbelievably silly voice came over the air-waves ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...sing-children-
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Originally posted by seabright View PostMichael Tanner is spot on when he comes to Elizabeth Alker. I haven't listened to a Saturday morning Breakfast since the first day her unbelievably silly voice came over the air-waves ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...sing-children-
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Originally posted by antongould View PostPresumably this chap is Lord Charles Moore’s butler ........ ??????
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*I might have spared Mr Skelly and replaced with Ms Molleson"...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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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View PostI agree with most* of what he says, and have never been in service....
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*I might have spared Mr Skelly and replaced with Ms Molleson
Anyway, I find Breakfast( just about) bearable with some presenters, and unbearable with others. Same goes for Essential Classics, although as background to activities such as working for the man.
This proves beyond doubt that the presenter and their style is of critical importance.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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I agree with much of what's been said regarding Saturday's Breakfast programme - but would I listen if Martin Handley, whom I admire, were to present the same choice of works? I think I probably would. It's almost as though the 2 weekend editions are aimed at very different audiences. On the plus side, the arrival of EA has meant that I've had the opportunity to play quite a few CDs which have been unjustly ignored for far too long.
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Possibly she is the only one willing to get up at the crack of dawn in Salford without having to be paid an excessive amount to travel up from London - gone are the days when presenters had a bed in the erstwhile Langham hotel (in late 60s its was home to BBC management + HR) 200 yards or so from BH
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View Postgone are the days when presenters had a bed in the erstwhile Langham hotel (in late 60s its was home to BBC management + HR) 200 yards or so from BH
PS Erstwhile?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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Originally posted by french frank View PostPS Erstwhile?
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostIt was a hotel pre war then acquired by the Beeb and used by management during the 60s when I briefly worked for Beeb but sometime later with the building of the White City centre it was sold and again became a hotel - ? I assume it was such when you were stood up by Roger - the road in front with an awkward pedestrian crossing was known as 'Promotion Alley'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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Originally posted by Frances_iom View PostIt was a hotel pre war then acquired by the Beeb and used by management during the 60s when I briefly worked for Beeb but sometime later with the building of the White City centre it was sold and again became a hotel - ? I assume it was such when you were stood up by Roger - the road in front with an awkward pedestrian crossing was known as 'Promotion Alley'
It’s now a £500 a night luxury hotel and most BBC staff couldn’t afford a tea there...
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I'm not the greatest fan of the 'Sounds Of the Earth' sequence on Sunday's 'Breakfast', but today's was truly magical - waves crashing onto a Norfolk beach, Roderick Williams singing 'Sea Fever', Charles Trenet singing 'La Mer' and an extract from Frank Bridge's 'The Sea' - what's not to like? I think Martin Handley is also to be commended for taking time to express so powerfully his obvious concern for locked-down and isolating choirs.
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