The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[oddoneout]

A slightly odd item a few minutes ago - an arrangement for trombone and piano of Land of Hope and Glory. The words of the opening verse strike hollow these days anyway so the fact that the mournful sound of the trombone and the slow speed made it sound like a lament or dirge seemed appropriate.

[kernelbogey]

Weirdly - I can't remember a single previous instance - TTN ran over by 8 minutes this morning, so Breakfast started 8 minutes late, with not a mention from presenter EA; she even said 'It's seven o'clock'.... What are things coming to at Radio Three if they can't get the time check right? It's deja vue all over again with Jack de Manio syndrome in the twenty-first century! I blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people. 🤣

[smittims]

The Lunchtime concert used to overrun quite often. I'd switch on to hear the first item on 'Afternoon on3' and hear some Broadway hit belted out as an encore to a whooping audience. But getting the time wrong is amazing. Older listeners will remember an occasion when a piece of music overran and was interrupted by the Greenwich Time Signal, whereupon Tom Crowe said 'I hope the music didn't spoil your enjoyment of the pips.'

[oddoneout]

The Lunchtime concert used to overrun quite often. I'd switch on to hear the first item on 'Afternoon on3' and hear some Broadway hit belted out as an encore to a whooping audience. But getting the time wrong is amazing. Older listeners will remember an occasion when a piece of music overran and was interrupted by the Greenwich Time Signal, whereupon Tom Crowe said 'I hope the music didn't spoil your enjoyment of the pips.'

I don't recall Broadway hit encores or whooping audiences but when the Lunchtime Concert is a genuine live broadcast then there is always going to be the possibility of timings going adrift. There seems now to be a short period between ending of Lunchtime Concert and beginning of Afternoon Concert (Proms repeats means that for now it does at least live up to its title) to accommodate a filler/adverts/waffle which can also presumably be used to absorb any LC over-run.

[french frank]

Weirdly - I can't remember a single previous instance - TTN ran over by 8 minutes this morning, so Breakfast started 8 minutes late, with not a mention from presenter EA; she even said 'It's seven o'clock'.... What are things coming to at Radio Three if they can't get the time check right? It's deja vue all over again with Jack de Manio syndrome in the twenty-first century! I blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people. 🤣

I wonder how that happened? It's quite usual for live concerts and recitals to be immediately followed by a live programme which can adjust its start time and reshuffle its content a bit. But TWO abnormalities together: TTN overrunning and the following programme ignoring the fact on giving out the time ... Are you sure she didn't say "It's now 7 o'clock-ish, give or take", kernel?

[AuntDaisy]

Weirdly - I can't remember a single previous instance - TTN ran over by 8 minutes this morning, so Breakfast started 8 minutes late, with not a mention from presenter EA; she even said 'It's seven o'clock'.... What are things coming to at Radio Three if they can't get the time check right? It's deja vue all over again with Jack de Manio syndrome in the twenty-first century! I blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people. 🤣

Kernelbogey, how were you listening to R3? Was it Internet radio, DAB, FM...
I wasn't really concentrating at the time and didn't notice the TTN over-run (Internet radio), but the off-air seems roughly on time.

Very happy to also "blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people" - the airwaves were probably complaining.

[antongould]

Kernelbogey, how were you listening to R3? Was it Internet radio, DAB, FM...
I wasn't really concentrating at the time and didn't notice the TTN over-run (Internet radio), but the off-air seems roughly on time.

Very happy to also "blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people" - the airwaves were probably complaining.

has the mystery been solved sitting here very stressed ……. will EA get sacked …… ????

[kernelbogey]

Kernelbogey, how were you listening to R3? Was it Internet radio, DAB, FM...
I wasn't really concentrating at the time and didn't notice the TTN over-run (Internet radio), but the off-air seems roughly on time.

Very happy to also "blame those Tearjerker and Happy Harmonies people" - the airwaves were probably complaining.

Ah hah, possibly defeated again by technology? I was listening on my laptop from the internet (obvs): 8 minutes still seems a large gap to have built up because of... what?... gerbils in the R3 server?

I would lay a fiver, FF, to assert that it was 0708 by my laptop clock, and two others.... and that EA asserted 'twas seven o'clock on Salford Quays....

Edit: I thought that TTN, being recorded, was completely automated, so that whatever someone in the studio might be saying or doing, 'the flutes', as Verity called them, would sound on the dot of 0030, not allowing Late Junction to ovrerrun by a second.

[antongould]

Double EA this weekend for her many fans …….

[Nick Armstrong]

Double EA this weekend for her many fans …….

[antongould]

I know you would prefer Kate M

[Nick Armstrong]

I know you would prefer Kate M

[oddoneout]

Aargh, it's started - again. Details of this year's carol competition just announced...
So, in addition to all the other adverts for sporting fixtures, TV programmes, listen again options, we'll have this as well.
Reminds me that just as the heatwave was getting into its stride last week a favourite charity shop in town put out its Christmas stock; very much not the choice of the people running the shop(not least as they are the ones who have to listen to the customer grumbles about it every day) but Head Office had spoken so they had no choice.

[Old Grumpy]

Reminds me that just as the heatwave was getting into its stride last week a favourite charity shop in town put out its Christmas stock; very much not the choice of the people running the shop(not least as they are the ones who have to listen to the customer grumbles about it every day) but Head Office had spoken so they had no choice.

That, I agree is ridiculous. These people running the shop are presumably volunteers...


...perhaps a polite TTFO to HO would be appropriate!

[antongould]

That, I agree is ridiculous. These people running the shop are presumably volunteers...


...perhaps a polite TTFO to HO would be appropriate!

Is that what Jimmy Young used to say OG ?????