The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[cloughie]

It's yet another distraction to compensate for Radio3's dullest programme.

Dullest or dumbest?

[Zucchini]

(Own up now, ff.)

I thnk she's a bit busy right now.

She needs to write some letters to Lord Hall, the BBC Trust & Roger W complaining that having babies on the radio is in flagrant breach of the Royal Charter & R3's remit & Patsy "Bubbles" Hughes & Adli Lidl didn't do it & would they answer the following 53 questions under the Freedom of Information Act...

[underthecountertenor]

I thnk she's a bit busy right now.

She needs to write some letters to Lord Hall, the BBC Trust & Roger W complaining that having babies on the radio is in flagrant breach of the Royal Charter & R3's remit & Patsy "Bubbles" Hughes & Adli Lidl didn't do it & would they answer the following 53 questions under the Freedom of Information Act...

Keep up the good work, Zucchini! Everyone else here seems so very po of face.

[french frank]

Everyone else here seems so very po of face.

People who used to enjoy the peaktime morning listening on R3 will continue to be annoyed that their programmes have been retargeted on a different audience. And those who attack (albeit mildly and amusingly) either me, FoR3, or any of the others here who complain might actually say why they disagree so that a discussion could be held on the opposing views.

[underthecountertenor]

I have done in the past. No discussion follows, merely (if anything) restatement of entrenched views. I don't like everything about Breakfast, and am averse to certain presenters. But I can see very little wrong with PT's presentation, for example, or with the overall content of his programmes. I sometimes feel that posters here have a fixed negative idea of what they think Breakfast now is, and (if they listen at all now) seize on examples which tend to confirm their views whilst ignoring the inconvenient mass of evidence to the contrary.

[french frank]

Perhaps it should be acknowledged that on both sides there are the 'I don't like it' and' Well, I think it's all right' comments - but unless such opinions are supported by general points based on what the aims of Radio 3 should be and why, what is likely to 'succeed' (and what that means) and whether it does succeed, there is no two-way discussion at all.

If, along general lines, someone has a view as to what is 'good' or 'bad' it would seem essential to illustrate such opinions with examples.

I merely say if there is to be a discussion, both sides need to have some reasoned basis to their comments.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Listening to Breakfast this morning there was a conversation between Petroc and Rob Both seemed to be determined never to use a full stop They rushed on at the end of each sentence as quickly as possible Then they would eventually run out of




breath and pause in the middle of a sentence to avoid an on-air death Subsequently they would continue It is as though someone were going to interrupt Maybe they think that constant jabbering makes good radio I can't thing why Does anyone have any thoughts on this If so please text tweet or e-mail me We shall pass on your comments after we've read them out Do keep them coming in Thank you for your company

[Old Grumpy]

Listening to Breakfast this morning there was a conversation between Petroc and Rob Both seemed to be determined never to use a full stop They rushed on at the end of each sentence as quickly as possible Then they would eventually run out of




breath and pause in the middle of a sentence to avoid an on-air death Subsequently they would continue It is as though someone were going to interrupt Maybe they think that constant jabbering makes good radio I can't thing why Does anyone have any thoughts on this If so please text tweet or e-mail me We shall pass on your comments after we've read them out Do keep them coming in Thank you for your company

Perhaps they were playing to the gallery as I presume they were both in the "pop-up" glass studio.

OG

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Possibly, though it's something I've noticed about R3 presenters before. Perhaps they are trained to avoid silences?

[ardcarp]

Breakfast provided us with some family entertainment today. A caller-in had explained that as an adult he had learned the clarinet, violin and saxophone and had done Grade V, etc, etc. The presenter then said to the hapless individual, "Now can you tell us if it was worth it" [or words to that effect] whereupon our breakfast table erupted as follows:

Mrs A: Nah mate
G-kid 1: Total waste of ******* time
G-kid 2: BOR - ING
Me: Wish I'd taken up ferret stuffing instead

It took us some time to regain our composure. So there is some mileage in Breakfast after all.

[Bax-of-Delights]

Breakfast provided us with some family entertainment today. A caller-in had explained that as an adult he had learned the clarinet, violin and saxophone and had done Grade V, etc, etc. The presenter then said to the hapless individual, "Now can you tell us if it was worth it" [or words to that effect] whereupon our breakfast table erupted as follows:

Mrs A: Nah mate
G-kid 1: Total waste of ******* time
G-kid 2: BOR - ING
Me: Wish I'd taken up ferret stuffing instead

It took us some time to regain our composure. So there is some mileage in Breakfast after all.

Good to hear others play this game. We do it all the time when the TV studio newsreader, having described an event in full then hands over to an OT reporter standing in the dark outside a darkened building and says "What else can you tell us?"
Our chorus is "Nuffink!"
And, strangely, we are always right...

[Serial_Apologist]

Good to hear others play this game. We do it all the time when the TV studio newsreader, having described an event in full then hands over to an OT reporter standing in the dark outside a darkened building and says "What else can you tell us?"
Our chorus is "Nuffink!"
And, strangely, we are always right...

It must be a natural rather than orchestrated response then, because I find myself doing it too with TV ads, especially the one promoting business cards, in which a woman comes on saying, "They have to convey some aspect of... " and I shout "ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!"

[MLF]

Poor old Petroc. He is maintaining a brave, even valiant face this week.

[MickyD]

The days of soothing long pauses delivered by such cherished names as Peter Barker, Patricia Hughes, Tony Scotland etc. seem like a million years ago.

[cloughie]

The days of soothing long pauses delivered by such cherished names as Peter Barker, Patricia Hughes, Tony Scotland etc. seem like a million years ago.

or even Penny Gore at cereal time!

and whatever happened to long works at 0705?