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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 12972

    Yes, totally but totally unlike the one we heard from 'another sop' earlier in the day!! Real CB at her best.

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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8472

      I don't like to be unkind, but listening to Jamie Barton singing 'Um Mitternacht' was a far from enjoyable experience. To put it in non-technical terms, I don't think she has a 'big-enough' voice for at least this particular song. The pianist also sounded pretty disengaged.

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        Having heard Elizabeth Alker presenting Breakfast this morning, it’s almost made me think that all other R3 presenters are actually fine. It was all so excruciatingly embarrassing to hear a rank amateur presenting on a major BBC channel. Even KD is sounding excellent at the LNOTP in comparison. As I have a northern accent of sorts, her accent doesn’t trouble me, but I was cringing as she talked about Derrick Cock.

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        • LMcD
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          • Sep 2017
          • 8472

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          Having heard Elizabeth Alker presenting Breakfast this morning, it’s almost made me think that all other R3 presenters are actually fine. It was all so excruciatingly embarrassing to hear a rank amateur presenting on a major BBC channel. Even KD is sounding excellent at the LNOTP in comparison. As I have a northern accent of sorts, her accent doesn’t trouble me, but I was cringing as she talked about Derrick Cock.
          I share your views on EA's (lack of) presentational skills. May I recommend that you switch to Channel 4, where the reruns of 'Frasier' offer many examples of witty scripts delivered with style.

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          • kernelbogey
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            • Nov 2010
            • 5748

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            Having heard Elizabeth Alker presenting Breakfast this morning, it’s almost made me think that all other R3 presenters are actually fine. It was all so excruciatingly embarrassing to hear a rank amateur presenting on a major BBC channel. Even KD is sounding excellent at the LNOTP in comparison. As I have a northern accent of sorts, her accent doesn’t trouble me, but I was cringing as she talked about Derrick Cock.
            On waking I put Radio 3 on for all of, oh, perhaps eight seconds. I find that sing-song, rather smug delivery absoutely intolerable.

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            • Stanfordian
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              • Dec 2010
              • 9312

              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
              Having heard Elizabeth Alker presenting Breakfast this morning, it’s almost made me think that all other R3 presenters are actually fine. It was all so excruciatingly embarrassing to hear a rank amateur presenting on a major BBC channel. Even KD is sounding excellent at the LNOTP in comparison. As I have a northern accent of sorts, her accent doesn’t trouble me, but I was cringing as she talked about Derrick Cock.
              "Even KD is sounding excellent..." - Dammed with faint praise. Sadly we are now at a point with R3 that for comparison purposes we are reduced to working with the lowest common denominator.

              Derrick Cock! I like it.
              Last edited by Stanfordian; 17-09-19, 17:50.

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              • kernelbogey
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5748

                Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                ...common denominator.

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                • Eine Alpensinfonie
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20570

                  Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                  "Even KD is sounding excellent..." - Dammed with faint praise. Sadly we are now at a point with R3 that for comparison purposes we are reduced to working with the lowest common denominator.
                  Actually KD was as bad as ever - simpering, giggling, over-hyping the music/performers the same as ever. It's all relative.

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8785

                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    Having heard Elizabeth Alker presenting Breakfast this morning, it’s almost made me think that all other R3 presenters are actually fine. It was all so excruciatingly embarrassing to hear a rank amateur presenting on a major BBC channel. Even KD is sounding excellent at the LNOTP in comparison. As I have a northern accent of sorts, her accent doesn’t trouble me, but I was cringing as she talked about Derrick Cock.
                    To be fair she is an Honorary President of Bacup Borough FC, and I’m sure she can pronounce it beautifully, which is more than I can do ....

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                    • LMcD
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                      • Sep 2017
                      • 8472

                      Let 'Breakfast' provide you with a quick and simple escape from all the Br*x*t madness by returning you, if only briefly, to happier times. 'Puffing Billy' and 'The Runaway Train' may not represent the acme of public service broadcasting, but hearing them just now after many years has cheered me up no end!

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22126

                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        To be fair she is an Honorary President of Bacup Borough FC, and I’m sure she can pronounce it beautifully, which is more than I can do ....
                        Well the ‘a’ is not like ‘mackem’.

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8785

                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Well the ‘a’ is not like ‘mackem’.
                          Well is it Back up or Bake-up ......

                          The other great man of the South West is heavily into trains this morning ..........

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20570

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            Well is it Back up or Bake-up ......
                            Neither. It's Bécoop.

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                            • Stanfordian
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                              • Dec 2010
                              • 9312

                              Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                              Let 'Breakfast' provide you with a quick and simple escape from all the Br*x*t madness by returning you, if only briefly, to happier times. 'Puffing Billy' and 'The Runaway Train' may not represent the acme of public service broadcasting, but hearing them just now after many years has cheered me up no end!

                              I too enjoy those light music works. And they play them in their entirety... I hope.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37691

                                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                                Neither. It's Bécoop.
                                You've given me a great idea: to use foreign accents to convey the nearest approximation possible to specific regional pronunciations. Thank you for that, EA.

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