The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

You have to admit it shows his great love for the very best of lyrics.......




Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.

All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.

One of these early mornings, oh, you gonna be wiping your weeping eyes.
I bought you a brand new mustang 'bout nineteen sixty five
Now you come around signifying a woman, you don't wanna let me ride.
Mustang Sally, think you better slow your mustang down.
You been running all over the town now.
Oh! I guess I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground.

All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.
All you want to do is ride around Sally, ride, Sally, ride.

anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?

[mercia]

not 100% sure what shirtsleeves have to do with anything

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/44/radio-3-live-in-concert-wednesday.html

to continue with the teenage ignorance, paean seems a fair word to me for Ma vlast but I'm happy to hear another suggestion

more than with any other presenter I thought Mr Hoban was reading a script written for him, isn't it traditional to blame the programme producers rather than the presenters on these occasions ?

[cloughie]

Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.

I did not hear them but they sound bad enough for a listen on iplayer for all the wrong reasons!

[antongould]

anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?

I wouldn't dare nor would I dare call her LS anymore...........

[vinteuil]

Feeling a little Wan today, vimto?

... my dear Caliban - normally I am like Oliver Edwards, Samuel Johnson's friend as quoted in Boswell's Life :

"You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "

[17 April 1778].

But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...

[antongould]

Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.

I only heard a fair chunk of Saturday's and I thought it was awful......he sounded to be at about my standard of Classical appreciation and the "CV" you attach explains a fair bit.

I have no desire to listen to today's on iplayer........or to hear Mr. Hoban ever again.

[Anna]

Well, I was wondering, seriously, what you thought of these two diabolically awful programmes.

I confess I didn't get up in time to listen to Simon Hoban yesterday or today, just the last 10 minutes on Saturday, but I see next Saturday it's back to C B-H so his appearance was a one-off.

As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'

Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)

Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?

[Nick Armstrong]

... my dear Caliban - normally I am like Oliver Edwards, Samuel Johnson's friend as quoted in Boswell's Life :

"You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in... "

[17 April 1778].

But did you listen this morning? I had forgotten how disgusted I could get...

I didn't listen... I adopt Anna's confession - wasn't up till some considerable time after Mr Hoban's shirtsleeves had left the studio

It was a recording of yesterday's BAL which preceded the levée at Château Caliban this morning

[teamsaint]

I confess I didn't get up in time to listen to Simon Hoban yesterday or today, just the last 10 minutes on Saturday, but I see next Saturday it's back to C B-H so his appearance was a one-off.

As to weekday Breakfast, I still turn it on (because I'm fed up with the shouty interviews on Today and our local radio is far too relentlessly cheerful at that time of the morning) So R3 is the only alternative to silence and I appreciate the time checks. However, the other week it seemed to be 'Music your Toddler Loves' (The Sorcerer's Apprentice was played because 10 month old Monty loves waving his spoon in time to it) and Tweet if French music makes you order more expensive dishes in a restaurant ..... and then there was 'Music your Dog Loves'

Honestly, not even mentioning the awful script (do the Producers write this, rather than the announcers?) there was the awful Petroc faux-pas of not knowing who on earth composed what he thought he might be playing next (I forget the details of that but there was a lot of rustling of papers)

Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures .... but, they don't have to, do they? It's not commercial radio is it?

Suddenly its not "Through a glass Darkly" . (what a lovely phrase that is.)

this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.

Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.

[cloughie]

Suddenly its not "Through a glass Darkly" . (what a lovely phrase that is.)

this is all to make us appreciate how lucky we usually are.

Thank goodness for Second hand Bartok CD's, the Naxos library, and the endless great suggestions for listening from other board members.

Not this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Past-Darkly-Hits-Vol/dp/B00006RT51/ref=sr_1_72?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1368376141&sr=1-72&keywords=rolling+stones

[teamsaint]

Not this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Past...rolling+stones

my introduction to the Stones, that one, pretty much.
A very good argument in favour of compilation albums.

Every one a winner.

[french frank]

Basically, it's terribly sloppy broadcasting, BUT, if they've increased the listening figures ....

And if they haven't ...?

I've just spent the afternoon chatting with my nephew who dropped in unexpectedly. He's 29 and says he doesn't listen to radio, especially not breakfast radio. He would be a 6 Music listener and would like to listen more because radio would introduce him to a wider range of music and he feels limited by what he already has. He likes talk between the music as long as it's either about the music or has some intellectual content.

He fled from 6 Music's Sean Keaveny and now he's been lost as a radio listener.

[Anna]

And if they haven't ...?

Well, I thought they had, increased listening figures, I don't know, you have the finger on the pulse, apart from all that I'm still sticking with Breakfast because the other offerings are worse, but basically, it's just background noise until the real day starts.

It's not something you savour at the breakfast table with a toast rack crammed with wholemeal bread, some superior butter and a jar of Frank Cooper's coarse cut, is it?
(Not that I've ever done that! But it must have been nice)

What I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.

[Old Grumpy]

anton are you dedicating this to Lady Sidcup?

[Nick Armstrong]

What I really like is a kind of TTN approach: Here is X playing Y's cantata, composed whilst he was dying of syphilis in Florence and his wife joined the St. Clares in her shame and endowed X Church, to which we owe this debt of gratitude. That sort of thing, interesting facts.

Totally agreed!