Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by Frances_iom View Postand 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.
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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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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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI'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 PostOh, 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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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.
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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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostSeriously, what an absurd use of public money this is.putting "breakfast" together isn't really rocket science.
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostTS, 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.
AlsoI 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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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostSo 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.
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Originally posted by Black Swan View PostMartin resurrected another of my least favorite works, The Warsaw Concerto, this morning as well.
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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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.
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Originally posted by mercia View PostTWO 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 ?O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostWell, 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.
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