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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30205

    Originally posted by MLF View Post
    Is it just me or is Mr Skelly not the answer to the great breakfast conundrum? Even in the current breakfast show format this morning was a pleasant experience.
    Doesn't appear to be just you, no.
    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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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8774

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Doesn't appear to be just you, no.

      I could live quite happily with IS and LF..........

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20568

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        I could live quite happily with IS and LF..........
        Surely it isn't the presenters who are the issue; it's the format.

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 30205

          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          Surely it isn't the presenters who are the issue; it's the format.
          My hunch is that we'll be seeing something of an improvement - until the eyes (and ears) of the world have found another focus.

          Ag - not certain that IS would want to live with you. Can't say about LF - I suspect she's spoken for.
          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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          • Old Grumpy
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 3594

            Originally posted by MLF View Post
            Is it just me or is Mr Skelly not the answer to the great breakfast conundrum? Even in the current breakfast show format this morning was a pleasant experience.
            Agreed, together with LF (I would not wish to live with either of them, with the alarm going off at 0400 every morning!).

            I do detect a reduction in the number of tweets read out or alluded to. I did like the way IS gave out the email, txt and postal addresses this morning and then (almost as an afterthought) observed that one could tweet (no address given). I do also like his somewhat dry sense of humour (ref: #3203 above).

            OG

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3594

              Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
              Surely it isn't the presenters who are the issue; it's the format.
              Er, no - quite like the format, especially with this week's presenters at the helm.

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30205

                Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                Er, no - quite like the format, especially with this week's presenters at the helm.
                Alternatively, yes. Hate the format.
                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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                • Suffolkcoastal
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 3290

                  Think you're right there Frenchie. The Dear Leader has had a little panic and has brought in some presenters to temporarily cover up the worst Breakfast excesses. A case of 'tweeting? what tweeting, as you can hear this rarely happens its all been a complete fabrication by those nasty people at for3'. The moment the focus has turned away, I expect we'll be back exactly where we were before. In the meantime Innessential Classics seems to becoming even more like 'Breakfast extra' or here are the same old warhorses from Breakfast moved en-masse to another programme to make Breakfast sound temporarily more appealing.

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                  • Old Grumpy
                    Full Member
                    • Jan 2011
                    • 3594

                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    Alternatively, yes. Hate the format.
                    The Eternal Debate...



                    ... to be continued

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                    • Frances_iom
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 2411

                      Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
                      ... The Dear Leader has had a little panic and has brought in some presenters to temporarily cover up the worst Breakfast excesses. ...
                      my new year's resolution was to try to avoid commenting on RW - I have over the last few years started to treat him with contempt as R3 has been run into the ground - he may just be an apparatchik obeying orders but under his watch R3 has degenerated into R2.5 with what appears to be a sequence of ill thought out changes which are then reversed but leaving behind a trail of destruction - teenage tweeters (pregnant or otherwise) belong on R1 not what was once a great radio station.

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                      • MLF

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        Surely it isn't the presenters who are the issue; it's the format.
                        I can live with the format provided the worst excesses are trimmed and with the right presenters in harness. There is a case for a breakfast show format provided it is intelligently delivered by the likes of IS or LF. (In fairness, I should should mention I actually quite like PT.)

                        However, even the splendid RC cannot save Essential Classics. Come 9am, he should be given free reign.

                        Personally, the highlight of weekday Radio 3 for me is that glorious 25 minutes after the evening concert. It is that segment plus CD Review which inform my buying habits.

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8774

                          Originally posted by antongould View Post
                          I could live quite happily with IS and LF..........

                          Alright jokes well made but I think you know what I mean......scary amount of audience participation from Our Boy this morning but IMHO at least all interesting stuff and an excellent phone in....

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5735

                            So much depends on voice delivery, i.e. microphone technique (skills).

                            This morning I was struck by the newsreader's voice: she adopts an intonation, speed and diaphragm-driven voice that mimics the newsreaders' on local and commercial radio and on R1. I find it gratingly unpleasant. (Cf Catriona Young, and discuss.)

                            I think Martin Handley is one of the best Breakfast presenters: (a) he has a pleasant class-neutral voice (ok, I admit it's almost RP); (b) he manages to surf the dotty programme conventions (texts &c &c); (c) he's a musician and knows whereof he presents.

                            Martin Handley, Ian Skelly, Louise Fryer, Jonathan Swain, Susan Sharpe and John Shea would be my Breakfast Presenters' Dream Squad.
                            Last edited by kernelbogey; 23-02-14, 13:18. Reason: +1 BPDS

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30205

                              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                              Martin Handley, Ian Skelly, Louise Fryer, Jonathan Swain, Susan Sharpe and John Shea would be my Breakfast Presenters' Dream Squad.
                              Right. That's their careers blighted
                              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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                              • Thropplenoggin
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2013
                                • 1587

                                Is this love for IS, LF, and the TTN boys (Shea and Swain), all of which I share, being conveyed to the appropriate authorities?

                                Where might one send such praise, in order to try and persuade others that herein lies the potential for a breakfast show of champions?
                                It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius

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