Originally posted by LMcD
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I think you left it too long since my post, and the 30 days have expired...
"...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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Note to self: always check date of post before replying or clicking on link.Originally posted by Caliban View PostI think you left it too long since my post, and the 30 days have expired...
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I've come to the conclusion that the return to 'normal' for Breakfast and EC doesn't represent an improvement. The 'At Home' version, with few interruptions from news bulletins, and no need for the frenetic and intrusive Proms trails(as the season was on hold), was able to build up a pleasant relaxed atmosphere with much better continuity and longer stretches of music in relation to talk. I won't stop listening(yet) but I don't engage as much now. I have seen a better way - pity the powers that be haven't...Comment
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
I’m still listening occasionally to one or two recorded Handleys... and agree with you. Are the Proms trails back?
I agree, it’s blissful without them
"...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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And how! Hyperventilating Tom Service in many cases, noisy, intrusive in too may others and far too often completely wrecking the mood of what has just finished playing.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
I’m still listening occasionally to one or two recorded Handleys... and agree with you. Are the Proms trails back? I agree, it’s blissful without them
WE'RE R3 LISTENERS FCOL, WE KNOW THE PROMS ARE ON. AND WE KNOW THEY ARE ARCHIVE RECORDINGS.Comment
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I avoid live R3 and have so far managed to avoid this pestilenceOriginally posted by oddoneout View Post"...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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I assume you preferred the dramatization of Camus's 'La Peste' on Radio 4!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
As for Tom Service, I suspect he has been tasked (ugh!) with trying to enthuse Radio 3 listeners in the same way as a certain politician is trying to enthuse the population as a whole. Far be it from me to suggest which of them has been the more unsuccessful.Comment
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Charged, would have been a perfectly adequate word for this red rag of a presenter - especially if he had been by a very large and angy bull.Originally posted by LMcD View PostComment
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'Red rag' is entirely appropriate in view of the amount of bull he spouts.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostSaturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes.
For this relief much thanks"...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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This also belongs on the 'Good News Stories' thread, wouldn't you say? I REALLY HAVE TRIED to listen to Miss/Ms Alker, but something about the quality of her voice turned me off to the point where I turned me radio off. I do hope that doesn't mean that I'm a bad person!Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostSaturday 8 and Sunday 9 - Martin Handley is presenting both weekend Breakfast programmes. Comment
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Well if you're a bad person, I am too. Or it could be that she's a presenter quite unsuited to Radio 3.Originally posted by LMcD View Post
Playschool - maybe?Comment
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