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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Jonathan View PostI actually tried to listen to Breakfast this morning - utter drivel. Inappropriate music for R3, stupid dedications and needless chatter. I gave up and read instead.
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Originally posted by Jonathan View PostI actually tried to listen to Breakfast this morning - utter drivel. Inappropriate music for R3, stupid dedications and needless chatter. I gave up and read instead.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThe problem seems to be that the other “EA” thinks listeners are stupid and know even less about classical music than she does.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 would avoid the emotive word 'stupid' but, yes, Radio 3's inference (intention?) is that EA's listeners are no more knowledgeable than she is. She has been drafted in primarily to bring in new listeners, not to satisfy the existing ones. That, and living near Salford, are the points in her favour.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostMore depressing than the dedications to dogs is that, in the section to which I listened, EA was enthusiastically encouraging listeners to text or tweet - a clear return to the culture of Breakfast a few years back, with SMP and Clemmie as presenters - when use of social media was stridently encouraged. And, thank Ford, that has been abandoned by the Suits (for surely it was their Big Idea): so we have very intelligent, music-led weekday commentary from Petroc, Hannah French and others. I would have thought - certainly hoped - that this would suit most listeners, but somebody has decided that there is something different about a Saturday morning audience and that lashings of social media posts are what will hook them to listen to Schubert and Shostakovich.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostSo long as it stays on Saturday, and that one outing is sufficient to tick the relevant box, I can live with ( although I don't have to like) it, as that is now the one day of the week when I rarely listen to R3. What would be a concern is if the listener response is seen as a green light to extend "the offer" to other days - ie go back to the bad old days.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI just ignore the patter and the disconnected stuff - most of the music is OK and Croissant Corner expands my knowledge of French music.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostIronically the fact that I don't find the combination of presenter and playlist as "comfortable" as the other days is a good thing as it motivates me to get going on a Saturday morning which often has errands and preparations that need to be done before midday.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 PostOne thing that I slightly marvel at is the general(?) assumption that the radio must be on at all, even when the programme isn't greatly to one's taste.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View PostWell if it was a concert of music I didn't like then I wouldn't have it on, but as I don't know it will all be things I don't want to hear then I consider it worth having on. Even if I'm not actively enjoying what I'm hearing it is preferable to listening to the noises in my head when they are being particularly negative - no I'm not talking "hearing voices" just the sometimes relentless and depressing cycle of negativity, depression and anxiety. Combined with pottering in the garden it serves to remind me that there are good, easy to access things in the world, even if I struggle to see them sometimes.
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