The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Roger Webb]

I won’t try to milk it further.

Perhaps the Cowen Gate Full English was considered indigestible, so they prescribed an Alker Selzer

[LMcD]

Perhaps the Cowen Gate Full English was considered indigestible, so they prescribed an Alker Selzer

[Serial_Apologist]

Perhaps the Cowen Gate Full English was considered indigestible, so they prescribed an Alker Selzer

I once knew someone who had a goat in his back garden. He said he had the intention of acquiring him a mate, and producing goat's milk and cheese. I told him he should start up a company, and call it Unigoat. Seriously!

[AuntDaisy]

Breakfast was on briefly...
Squire T. "Perhaps the [Mexican] ghost is vengeful because they've lost their gulf?" on L'Arpeggiata's "La lloroncita".

[LMcD]

Breakfast was on briefly...
Squire T. "Perhaps the [Mexican] ghost is vengeful because they've lost their gulf?" on L'Arpeggiata's "La lloroncita".

Perhaps there'll be a Mexican wave of protest.

[muzzer]

Thing is, the replacement for PT will quite possibly cause me to leave R3 in the morning completely. R4 is unlistenable when the appalling Emma B is on. The Beeb seems hell bent on dividing the nation just when it needs uniting. On the news now they ‘take a quick break’ every 15 minutes. All this horror seems irreversible.

[smittims]

Who is 'the appalling Emma B'? Is it Emma Barnett who used to present Woman's Hour? If so I have to say I would prefer her to Petroc; such is personal taste!

But more important would be a change in the content and style of the programme; need I say only complete works, and no trailers? I suppose thats asking for the moon now, but if that happened I wouldn't mind who presented it.

[Roger Webb]

Who is 'the appalling Emma B'?.

Could be worse it could be Emma Bunton.......although vaguely connected with the music industry (she was 'Baby Spice'), she could be lined up for PT's replacement!

[french frank]

But more important would be a change in the content and style of the programme; need I say only complete works, and no trailers? I suppose thats asking for the moon now, but if that happened I wouldn't mind who presented it.

My feeling exactly. Once the individual personality of the presenter becomes more noticeable than the knowledgeable comment (and respect for the music) it's BAD - because some listeners will like them (and become devotees) while others will dislike them and end up not listening. That's stupid for Radio 3. Or was.

For me R3 has ceased to exist ever since its principal aim became increasing popularity (= reach). It's heading towards being a just slightly more unusual flavour of milk shake. They'll be looking to poach a few more CFM presenters attracted to the 'prestige' of working for the BBC with its lofty public service values; then once CotW, the Early Music Show and the New Music Show are dropped ...

[smittims]

Browning said 'A Man's reach should exceed his grasp...'

Radio 3 today is all 'reach' and no grasp.

When CFM began I never imagined anyone would take it for a model.

Eheu Fugaces! Ichabod!

[LMcD]

Thing is, the replacement for PT will quite possibly cause me to leave R3 in the morning completely. R4 is unlistenable when the appalling Emma B is on. The Beeb seems hell bent on dividing the nation just when it needs uniting. On the news now they ‘take a quick break’ every 15 minutes. All this horror seems irreversible.

Hyvää huomenta yle Klassinen?

[Roger Webb]

Hyvää huomenta yle Klassinen?

Like you LMcD I've praised the virtues of YLE before....and listened to them this very morning....interesting music, played complete (usually), minimal (minimalist!) intros. But a couple of things have started to irritate me: the repetition of Franck's Violin Sonata for one! The use of jingles, for example the rising scale from Parsifal...sometimes several times in a morning - although not recently...that old device much beloved of broadcasters: the A 440 orchestra tuning up! Apart from those, it's still my favourite morning listen!

[Rjw]

I suspect it's part of a Cunning Plan whereby every Radio 3 programme is required to trail as many other programmes as possible in as many different ways as possible.

I think it is the same on radio 5 live where football commentaries are peppered with trails! I can't listen anymore. The one real plus of the BBC was it lack of advertising, now there is little else. Can't cope anymore.

[Pulcinella]

Having listened to a few minutes of Breakfast a few days this week, though I find the snippet/single-movement aspect singularly annoying, if I'm being charitable I suppose it might encourage listeners to search out the whole work if they liked what they heard. Which might be part of its aim.

[LMcD]

Having listened to a few minutes of Breakfast a few days this week, though I find the snippet/single-movement aspect singularly annoying, if I'm being charitable I suppose it might encourage listeners to search out the whole work if they liked what they heard. Which might be part of its aim.

It might, of course, encourage them to move on and 'unwind'. Radio 3's future success, or lack of it, may be judged on the basis of the combined listenership.