The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

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.

[antongould]

Doesn't appear to be just you, no.

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

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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

Surely it isn't the presenters who are the issue; it's the format.

[french frank]

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.

[Old Grumpy]

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

[Old Grumpy]

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.

[french frank]

Er, no - quite like the format, especially with this week's presenters at the helm.

Alternatively, yes. Hate the format.

[Suffolkcoastal]

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.

[Old Grumpy]

Alternatively, yes. Hate the format.

The Eternal Debate...



... to be continued

[Frances_iom]

... 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.

[MLF]

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.

[antongould]

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....

[kernelbogey]

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.

[french frank]

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

[Thropplenoggin]

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?