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  • Frances_iom
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 2413

    Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
    ...- the piece was "Zadok the Priest", which as Suffolkcoastal will attest has been one of the most played pieces on R3.
    and the signature tune for CFm ! - re Martin Handley - apart from 'your call' + the other vox pox interruptions surely the rest could be prerecorded with no great loss - might make early morning listening more pleasant if it adopted TTN's format.

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    • Bax-of-Delights
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      • Nov 2010
      • 745

      Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
      and the signature tune for CFm ! - re Martin Handley - apart from 'your call' + the other vox pox interruptions surely the rest could be prerecorded with no great loss - might make early morning listening more pleasant if it adopted TTN's format.
      I'd go so far as to say that Martin Handley could record the whole thing in his front room in the Kent countryside on a Friday and then just transfer the thing to Salford for editing in the news and blurb blah of forthcoming plays/concerts. Making the poor fellow drag all the way to Salford every weekend seems so, well, antideluvian in this advanced technical day and age.

      Oh, before I go, let me say that I find the "what's coming up in the next hour" snippets just about the naffest idea ever thrust upon an intelligent audience.
      O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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      • Suffolkcoastal
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3290

        Yes I cannot imagine any regular Breakfast listener not having heard Zadok the Priest before, must have been a put up to get yet another of the R3 warhorses played as soon as possible in 2013. As i pointed out on another thread, they seem to be in a real hurry to play as many of their warhorses as they can as quickly as they can this year. My warhorse list has now around 75% f its entries filled, with a fair number of these already having occurred more than once, and we're not yet half way through the first month!
        I do feel sorry for poor Martin Handley, if they are dragging such a fine presenter up to Salford every weekend to present such uninspiring dross, I take my hat off to him, he must have real staying power.
        I see that R3 is doing more CFM copying next week with a certain Magpie as COTW.

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        • kernelbogey
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 5753

          Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
          I'd go so far as to say that Martin Handley could record the whole thing in his front room in the Kent countryside on a Friday and then just transfer the thing to Salford for editing in the news and blurb blah of forthcoming plays/concerts. Making the poor fellow drag all the way to Salford every weekend seems so, well, antideluvian in this advanced technical day and age.


          If Robert Peston can do his job with an ISDN line from his spare room in North London, why can't Martin - who IMV is one of the best presenters on R3.

          Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
          Oh, before I go, let me say that I find the "what's coming up in the next hour" snippets just about the naffest idea ever thrust upon an intelligent audience.

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25210

            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post


            If Robert Peston can do his job with an ISDN line from his spare room in North London, why can't Martin - who IMV is one of the best presenters on R3.




            so if we can just get someone to sabotage peston's phone line.......

            Seriously, what an absurd use of public money this is.putting "breakfast" together isn't really rocket science.
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • kernelbogey
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              • Nov 2010
              • 5753

              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              Seriously, what an absurd use of public money this is.putting "breakfast" together isn't really rocket science.
              TS, I think you're overlooking the fact that the presenter would have to be close to the whole Breakfast team - all those people checking that they're not playing the same pieces that they played last week, or that had just been played on TTN in the last couple of nights. Not to mention the administrative staff who set up the Your Call and Your Wake-up Call spots every day.

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25210

                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                TS, I think you're overlooking the fact that the presenter would have to be close to the whole Breakfast team - all those people checking that they're not playing the same pieces that they played last week, or that had just been played on TTN in the last couple of nights. Not to mention the administrative staff who set up the Your Call and Your Wake-up Call spots every day.
                Ah yes, silly me. well spotted KB! All that rigorous research....the same team raffers uses I guess.

                Also
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                • Black Swan

                  Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                  So Martin Handley travels up to Salford from his home in Kent (I believe that's where he lives) on Friday night and then, one presumes, stays for two nights at a local hotel just to present Weekend Breakfast before returning home after the Sunday show? Are there absolutely no facilities at Broadcasting House in London for radio transmission any more and how much more does all this travelling take from the budget one wonders?

                  The Sunday "Your Call": fellow had heard a piece of music in 1977 as the signature tune to "Royal Heritage" but had never found out what it was - until 2 years ago. He obviously hadn't been a R3 listener - the piece was "Zadok the Priest", which as Suffolkcoastal will attest has been one of the most played pieces on R3.
                  Obviously, there are facilities as Rob Cowan was presenting from London. As for Zadok, my feelings exactly would that Handel were getting royalties from recordings. Radio 3 would have made him a bundle with Zadok and the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. Also, Martin resurrected another of my least favorite works, The Warsaw Concerto, this morning as well.

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                  • kernelbogey
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5753

                    Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                    Martin resurrected another of my least favorite works, The Warsaw Concerto, this morning as well.
                    Wasn't that to create one of those links - no doubt on the basis of a ukase from above - to trail a series about film music coming up on R3? I do wonder how Martin tolerates this kind of thing, but he seems somehow mostly to ride above it in ways that SK, PT and SM-P don't succeed in emulating.

                    After he said - and it sounded spontaneous - that WC had brought a tear to his eye - I sent a text to him saying that it wasn't a bad piece, but less interesting hearing it for the second time in 48 hours, since it had been broadcast in Friday morning's TTN.

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                    • arancie33
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 137

                      Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post

                      The Sunday "Your Call": fellow had heard a piece of music in 1977 as the signature tune to "Royal Heritage" but had never found out what it was - until 2 years ago. He obviously hadn't been a R3 listener - the piece was "Zadok the Priest", which as Suffolkcoastal will attest has been one of the most played pieces on R3.
                      Put R3 on when home, forgot it was In Tune which is a no-go area anyway and they were playing .... Zadok the Priest As it happens it is one of my least favourite pieces, possibly on account of over exposure but the BBC are going to turn my dislike into an active hatred very soon. I've told them so and await the bland reply

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37707

                        Originally posted by arancie33 View Post
                        the bland reply
                        Careful, arancie; you never know, they might bring him back!

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                        • arancie33
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 137

                          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                          Careful, arancie; you never know, they might bring him back!
                          Thanks for that thought! Maybe I'll hear from Chris Patten then., and where's the flying pig smiley when I need it!

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            TWO live interactions with the great listening public on this morning's breakfast show

                            are people queuing up to put in their requests do you think ?

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                            • Bax-of-Delights
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 745

                              Originally posted by mercia View Post
                              TWO live interactions with the great listening public on this morning's breakfast show

                              are people queuing up to put in their requests do you think ?
                              Well, I only heard the second one and I may be very mistaken, slipping in and out of the arms of Morpheus as I was, but was it cut quite abruptly when the caller informed us that he was "stoned". It certainly wasn't very enlightening and evidence I would argue that the whole "interactive" exercise is a complete waste of time. Especially as the piece chosen was VW's "The Wasps overture" which, I am sure suffolkcoastal will attest, is up there as one of the most played pieces on R3.
                              O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22128

                                Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                                Well, I only heard the second one and I may be very mistaken, slipping in and out of the arms of Morpheus as I was, but was it cut quite abruptly when the caller informed us that he was "stoned". It certainly wasn't very enlightening and evidence I would argue that the whole "interactive" exercise is a complete waste of time. Especially as the piece chosen was VW's "The Wasps overture" which, I am sure suffolkcoastal will attest, is up there as one of the most played pieces on R3.
                                I guessed there'd be a sting in your tale!

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