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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26514

    Originally posted by antongould View Post
    I doubt if my Geordie accent would be appreciated?
    I would very much appreciate it, I suspect. Love a bit of gravelly Geordie gravitas, me
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26514

      Originally posted by french frank View Post
      Which reminds me (because Donald Macleod used to be The TTN Voice), was that DM's voice that took over this morning when the link to Salford went down? If so, what was he doing in the office on a Sat'dy? Or was it someone else ... ?
      Reading the news?
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30205

        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Reading the news?
        No, that was someone called Lucy Grey, I think. Not easily confused ....
        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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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26514

          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          No, that was someone called Lucy Grey, I think. Not easily confused ....
          Forgive me, I wasn't actually listening... I was "undercover" at the time

          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30205

            I have to say (don't I? :-) ) that, though this was not a programme I would choose to listen to other than for research purposes, I have heard worse presentation in the past by Radio 3 presenters. I think. Whereas the worst aspects of today's programme were the regular tedium-inducing interruptions. Was I not concentrating fully (I'm not sure that I listened until the end, though I did hear the sudden silence - if silence is something you hear).
            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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            • aka Calum Da Jazbo
              Late member
              • Nov 2010
              • 9173

              ... notice certainly; it was the appaling content matter of the dreadful chat and the execrable choice of music ... it was really bad and the snippets of personal history involving Popeye just otiose personality porn
              According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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              • kernelbogey
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5735

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                Which reminds me (because Donald Macleod used to be The TTN Voice), was that DM's voice that took over this morning when the link to Salford went down? If so, what was he doing in the office on a Sat'dy? Or was it someone else ... ?
                Could that have been a standby recording? Perhaps very old - wax cylinder maybe?

                BTW DM was not just the voice of TTN but its creator, according to the Radio Three history by the blessed Humphrey Carpenter of recent memory.

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                • french frank
                  Administrator/Moderator
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 30205

                  Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                  BTW DM was not just the voice of TTN but its creator, according to the Radio Three history by the blessed Humphrey Carpenter of recent memory.
                  At least, he was the the one I first remember pitying c. 1996 because he was the one that had to sit up all night. I did worry about his social life.
                  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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                  • Bax-of-Delights
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 745

                    Today's classic from Breakfast:
                    "Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe we find Bizet and his Carmen..."

                    So that's "Pearl Fishers", "L'Arlesienne", "Jeux d'enfants" and the "Symphony in C" dismissed then.

                    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
                    O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                    • Sir Velo
                      Full Member
                      • Oct 2012
                      • 3225

                      Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                      Today's classic from Breakfast:
                      "Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe ..."
                      No! I won't have that! A two hit wonder maybe.

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                        No! I won't have that! A two hit wonder maybe.
                        Is that because he had a Split personality?

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30205

                          Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                          Today's classic from Breakfast:
                          "Among the one-hit-wonder composers such as Suppe we find Bizet and his Carmen..."

                          So that's "Pearl Fishers", "L'Arlesienne", "Jeux d'enfants" and the "Symphony in C" dismissed then.

                          A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
                          Interesting to know whether this meant: 'The only work by Bizet I've heard of' or 'The only work you the listeners will have heard of'. Either way ...
                          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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                          • Sir Velo
                            Full Member
                            • Oct 2012
                            • 3225

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            Is that because he had a Split personality?
                            Well spotted.

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                            • Sir Velo
                              Full Member
                              • Oct 2012
                              • 3225

                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              Interesting to know whether this meant: 'The only work by Bizet I've heard of' or 'The only work you the listeners will have heard of'. Either way ...
                              I took it to mean that he may have composed other stuff but none of it made the Top 20 of the BBC Specialist Classical Charts.

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                              • Sir Velo
                                Full Member
                                • Oct 2012
                                • 3225

                                ..Or possibly nothing else he wrote made a mobile ringtone.

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