Originally posted by oddoneout
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by french frank View PostI enjoy that every morning - and have done for the past few years. It's not so bad I may not know what I'm missing (good as well as awful), but 'Where ignorance is bliss …'.
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Scraping the barrel yesterday morning with an extremely laboured "Twelve Days of Christmas" set of musical associations. Inspiration failed the Breakfast team early as they looked for suitable classical segues. "I can't offer you five gold rings" Georgia Mann assured us, "so instead we will have five million gold bars as depicted by Sergio Morricone in blah blah blah". Later, presumably having not decided to dump this wretched pantomime we sunk even further to the nadir as "not having two turtle doves we do have the coo-ing of Nerone and Poppea in Pur ti miro"
Needless to say the radio's off switch was booted very firmly and harmony was restored with an album of unadulterated bliss in the shape of Vivaldi bassoon concertos caressingly played by the masterly Sergio Azzolini (qv).
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostAlternatively, why not listen to your own collection or one of the streaming services where a myriad recordings are there to satisfy every taste? Qobuz and Spotify et al offer curated (sic) playlists which take away the overwhelming burden of choice.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 french frank View PostI missed this suggestion. At the risk of being unceremoniously expelled from this hallowed grove, I don't want to be listening to music all the time: I find it distracting.
I still have flashes of guilt at doing something else which may interrupt concentration while listening to music, thanks to childhood indoctrination.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostScraping the barrel yesterday morning with an extremely laboured "Twelve Days of Christmas" set of musical associations. Inspiration failed the Breakfast team early as they looked for suitable classical segues. "I can't offer you five gold rings" Georgia Mann assured us, "so instead we will have five million gold bars as depicted by Sergio Morricone in blah blah blah". Later, presumably having not decided to dump this wretched pantomime we sunk even further to the nadir as "not having two turtle doves we do have the coo-ing of Nerone and Poppea in Pur ti miro"
Needless to say the radio's off switch was booted very firmly and harmony was restored with an album of unadulterated bliss in the shape of Vivaldi bassoon concertos caressingly played by the masterly Sergio Azzolini (qv).
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostThe distraction factor was the reason( in addition to losing soft bits and getting earache from loud bits) I stopped listening to the radio when I was driving; .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 Bryn View Post"can't offer you five gold rings"? It's only five years since the year openned to Howard Skempton's "Five Rings Tripples"
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Originally posted by antongould View PostAre you her other half Rumpole ..... ????
Looks like she’s partnering Stuart Maconie so I would guess flying the 6Radio flag. Johnnie Walker and Sally Traffic are there representing Radio 2 from a time when it was still worth a listen!
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Originally posted by cloughie View Posthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r0dd
Looks like she’s partnering Stuart Maconie so I would guess flying the 6Radio flag. Johnnie Walker and Sally Traffic are there representing Radio 2 from a time when it was still worth a listen!
JW not with Tiggy Stardust ..... !!!!!! .... ff, and indeed the whole South West, will surely be up in arms ..........
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