Originally posted by vinteuil
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Norfolk Born
Originally posted by cloughie View PostA programme way past its sell-by date. Another example of celebration of the celebrity culture and playing BCs. Who on earth was (sic) the women with the dreary voice who I heard briefly on yesterday's programme?
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... on Private Passions it was Olivia Williams. Who was not uninteresting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Williams"...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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Desperate programme this morning. He plays a chunk of Debussy's Reflets dans l’eau, then chips in as soon as it finishes telling us about texting and tweeting, not a breath of information about the piece. Where is the education in all of this? Then we have an interminable fandango, and chatting about Burns and the news (why do we need news on R3 when it is done so much better on R4?).
I'm off to work, anything is better than thisPacta sunt servanda !!!
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Paul Sherratt
>>>I'm off to work, anything is better than this
Well errr ...
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Originally posted by mercia View Postis education in the remit ?
"Around its core proposition of classical music, its speech-based programming should inform and educate the audience about music and culture."
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"The service should aim to educate audiences about music, broadcasting a wide range of programmes that expose listeners to new and sometimes challenging material they may not otherwise experience."
Radio 3 Service Licence, April 2011It 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 mercia View PostI wouldn't have thought there was much speech-based programming on R3. Isn't it primarily a music-based station?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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Aubade
I also hate the trailers, news snippets, texts and the other interactivity stuff. I don't want heavy stuff for breakfast but what most rends my heart is all the amputation: movements ripped from context and played bleeding from both ends. Very upset the other day at the C Major prelude that opens the 48, played with lots of sustain and touch, then babbling DJ instead of the Fugue. I was stunned.
Having said that, I am uneasy about shooting the messengers both on Breakfast and elsewhere. I am not a fan of Mr Cowan but the other presenters often bring great musical knowledge and insight. They are just doing what the Director and the Producers are telling them to do.
For example, I can remember shouting at SMP when she first started for "The Messiah" (twice!) and "gonna hear" and "the pianist Alfred Brendel". However, she soon developed into my preferred Breakfast presenter until the production antics started to drag her into The Realms of Irritation.
Incidentally, I am new here (following Charlie Moore's Speccie piece). Anyone recognise my nom de pseud from a gentler age?
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Panjandrum
Originally posted by Aubade View PostThey are just doing what the Director and the Producers are telling them to do.
Sorry, Aubade, but that won't wash: they either are fully on board with management, or what a spineless bunch of lily-livered jobsworths they must be. Martin Handley and Jonathan Swain show how to present without resort to endless banality. Therefore, I think we are letting the others off lightly if we say all this schoolgirl gushing is demanded of them with a loaded gun to their temples.
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Paul Sherratt
>>Incidentally, I am new here
Aubade, a warm welcome to this curious place
>>Anyone recognise my nom de pseud
Are you Philip Larkin ?
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