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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
It’s not that bad really , There is no sugar rush with Breakfast . You are undermining a legitimate argument through exaggeration. I think the appropriate cereal comparisonwould be Weetabix when what’s called for is a complex mix of granola , muesli , fresh fruit and high quality yoghurt. Followed by home baked bread , home made peel rich Seville marmalade and a pot of Assam.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 Post
I think that takes the metaphor a bit too literally! My definition of R3's 'additives' would be presenter input (other than music-related), a mix of different bits and pieces, little features of one sort and another - all the stuff that's added to make a programme more 'lively', listenable and, above all, consumed for as long as they can persuade you to keep on listening, dipping in and dipping out . As we know, RAJAR's figures for total 'listener hours' (share) and hours per listener per week were always what the commercial broadcasters looked for. Now, so does the BBC. The number of hours which come under the heading of presenter-led miscellany-cum-magazine fills most of the daytime schedule: Breakfast-Essential Classics-Classical Live. Pause for CotW, then swing back into action with Mixtape and In Tune. And it looks as if even the concert is padded out with Smarties. Where's the fibre?
evil product. Also not as good as Coke .
What do you expect? We are wasting our time engaging with them . Honestly we’d be better off reading Proust or making an honest buck .
We must hope for better times . This too will pass.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
FF - the whole organisation is now led by a former marketing bloke from Pepsi - a product which is complete fat inducing sxxx . I mean a seriously
evil product. Also not as good as Coke
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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Setting aside lashings of bias, I am very much enjoying Petroc’s latest wanders around the land of my youth. Yesterday, early doors, he majored on Otterburn where I went to primary school and played cricket ….. shamefully I am learning a lot about my homeland - Hexham,where I went to big school, is the birthplace of of Sir Mark Elder … how did I not know this ….. ?????
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Originally posted by antongould View PostSetting aside lashings of bias, I am very much enjoying Petroc’s latest wanders around the land of my youth. Yesterday, early doors, he majored on Otterburn where I went to primary school and played cricket ….. shamefully I am learning a lot about my homeland - Hexham,where I went to big school, is the birthplace of of Sir Mark Elder … how did I not know this ….. ?????
Now appreciating it from afar (well, not that far)
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI'm sorry to say I've never visited that part of the country except for Carlisle and Berwick. Is it, perhaps, the least-populated , and least well-known part of England?
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Originally posted by antongould View PostSetting aside lashings of bias, I am very much enjoying Petroc’s latest wanders around the land of my youth. Yesterday, early doors, he majored on Otterburn where I went to primary school and played cricket ….. shamefully I am learning a lot about my homeland - Hexham,where I went to big school, is the birthplace of of Sir Mark Elder … how did I not know this ….. ?????
Re: Sir Mark Elder and your old school that would depend perhaps on how much you have maintained interest(reunions, Old Boys Association etc) since leaving, as he wouldn't have been a well known figure while you were at school I think?
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
Re: Sir Mark Elder and your old school that would depend perhaps on how much you have maintained interest(reunions, Old Boys Association etc) since leaving, as he wouldn't have been a well known figure while you were at school I think?
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Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
Thr "big school" in Hexham is the High School. According to Wiki Sir Mark Elder went to primary school (unnamed, possibly in Hexham) but then went to Bryanston School near Blandford Forum in Dorset (which, coincidentally, is also where JEG went...
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