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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by hmvman View PostI'm deaf in one ear at the moment due to wax and that helps too at news bulletin time...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 Leinster Lass View PostI took the precaution of hiding behind the sofa while listening to the 0800 bulletin - to my admittedly untrained ears, it didn't sound particularly aggressive - but I'm probably further away from Broadcasting House than many of you, and the Irish Sea may have a mellowing effect.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostWell he certainly ain't 'ere!"...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 oddoneout View PostI wondered if it was the excellent Danielle J (sorry can't remember the surname) reading at 8 am. I was in the kitchen at news time but could hear a woman's voice and what she was saying. I thought for a happy minute that normal service had been resumed but then it was 'our correspondent' and my hopes were dashed.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostDanielle Jalowiecka. No, it wasn't. It was the differently wonderfully named Claire Runacres. https://twitter.com/ClareNews2/statu...7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Originally posted by muzzer View PostThey’ve moved back to sharing news with R2 as a result of renewed restrictions on the numbers of staff allowed onsite, and having fewer bulletins overall. I hate this, it smacks to me of a reversal and a defeatist approach when the opposite should be their position. The nation’s broadcaster should be leading its morale not retreating. Obviously the safety of staff is paramount, but so much can be done remotely.
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(Post copied from another thread - thanks to Leinster Lass for reminding me the main discussion was here)Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 13-01-21, 16:25."...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 Post... Turned off half-way through some lengthy clap-trap about Sarah Ferguson which apparently necessitated a special reporter. ...
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While I can stomach most Breakfast weekday programmes I have found that the Saturday version has become totally unlistenable. Quite apart from Elizabeth Alker’s “Blue Peter” style of presentation which sounds as if she is talking to 5 year olds, her irritating burble-speak, the mispronunciation of “says” (sayz), the insistence on telling us who has texted and what they are eating for breakfast, the overhyping of ambient music that was already old hat in the 70’s - all of this is put into the shade by her excitement at today’s “sound” of a child masticating a chocolate egg.
Beginning the day by shouting SHUT UP! at the radio before switching it off is not conducive.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostWhile I can stomach most Breakfast weekday programmes I have found that the Saturday version has become totally unlistenable. Quite apart from Elizabeth Alker’s “Blue Peter” style of presentation which sounds as if she is talking to 5 year olds, her irritating burble-speak, the mispronunciation of “says” (sayz), the insistence on telling us who has texted and what they are eating for breakfast, the overhyping of ambient music that was already old hat in the 70’s - all of this is put into the shade by her excitement at today’s “sound” of a child masticating a chocolate egg.
Beginning the day by shouting SHUT UP! at the radio before switching it off is not conducive.
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