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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    if CBH alone is the reason for the apparent increase in listeners to Breakfast, has that increase disappeared in her long absence ?
    do the Breakfast and Choir statistics come from the same mystery source that we weren't allowed to know about on another thread ?
    Last edited by mercia; 18-05-14, 07:59.

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    • MickyD
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 4746

      Anyone seen this Telegraph interview with La Burton-Hill? Look at the readers' comments afterwards..meow!!

      Clemency Burton-Hill, the 32-year-old presenter of Young Musician Of The Year and a new mother, says it's possible to like classical music without being 'a very specialised, isolated weirdo'

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      • James Wonnacott
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 248

        Yes, just been reading that!
        I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.

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        • muzzer
          Full Member
          • Nov 2013
          • 1190

          I can't see any comments. I don't know where she gets the energy from.

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          • Tony Halstead
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            • Nov 2010
            • 1717

            Originally posted by muzzer View Post
            I can't see any comments. I don't know where she gets the energy from.
            They are definitely there; you have to scroll right down the page - quite a lot of 'meows' as MickyD observes!

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            • James Wonnacott
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 248

              Originally posted by muzzer View Post
              I can't see any comments. I don't know where she gets the energy from.
              They're at the bottom but sometimes take a minute to appear.
              Couldn't resist adding my two-penneth!
              I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.

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              • antongould
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8778

                Interesting comment on the Tellywag article.............


                "It's not about age, but about money and social background. This woman was brought up in a wealthy, well-educated setting, lives in Notting Hill and earns a six-figure BBC salary. As someone equally keen on classical music, and, at the risk of sounding somewhat immodest, almost as good at is as her (I passed grade 8 organ aged 11, with distinction) but who grew up below the poverty line and went to a Bash Street comprehensive in south London (my father was killed in the Falklands when I was 10), I can assure you that being interested in classical music in that setting most certainly does mark you out as a weirdo - even among the teachers.

                Of all the people I've ever met who have had a lifelong interest in classical music have one thing in common - they are far more wealthy than the general population. They range in age from 9 to 90, but they all have that in common. I think the dumbing down of music education in the comprehensive system (for my GCSE in music the set pieces to analyse were by Scott Joplin and Genesis - there was no Beethoven, Bach, Bruckner, etc.) has a lot to do with this.

                But if this woman thinks that by being 32 and pretty she's going to get people from average or below levels of affluence suddenly to start listening to Radio 3 and going to the Proms, she's been knocking back too many skinny lattes in Notting Hill."
                ..........

                So we are all wealthy......well I suppose I am so sample of one ....case proven!!

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                • James Wonnacott
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 248

                  Well I'm not, and by the sound of it the writer of that comment isn't, or at least wasn't wealthy when he/she first became interested.
                  I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8778

                    Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post
                    Well I'm not, and by the sound of it the writer of that comment isn't, or at least wasn't wealthy when he/she first became interested.
                    Indeed then sample of 2 case not proven....

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                    • mercia
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 8920

                      if Clem has a moment I wonder if she could add to her Modern Classical Music collection which has been gathering dust for some time now

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                      • Black Swan

                        I only skimmed the article as I with Breakfast, I am not interested in the drivel that comes out of her mouth. Her reference to listeners being weird is typical of someone who has an over exalted opinion of themselves.

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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20570

                          Originally posted by Black Swan View Post
                          I only skimmed the article as I with Breakfast, I am not interested in the drivel that comes out of her mouth. Her reference to listeners being weird is typical of someone who has an over exalted opinion of themselves.
                          This reminds me of management-speak in education. When there's a potentially unjustified complaint from a parent, the manager nevertheless jumps upon the innocent teacher; but when someone complains about the actual manager, the complainer is "a very strange person".

                          Maybe we too are giving CB-H too much credence? She is not important, but the music is.

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                          • antongould
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8778

                            Originally posted by mercia View Post
                            if Clem has a moment I wonder if she could add to her Modern Classical Music collection which has been gathering dust for some time now

                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collect...lassical-music
                            Indeed mercs but have global superstars got time for this sort of thing anymore?

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                            • Bax-of-Delights
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 745

                              Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post
                              They're at the bottom but sometimes take a minute to appear.
                              Couldn't resist adding my two-penneth!
                              All comments have now, apparently, been erased. Someone a little touchy?

                              I almost threw up at the smugness of it all. Her partner in the Diplomatic Service at the Palace, her mother round the corner to help out with the sprog and CB-H on a six-figure BBC salary and "we can't afford not to work?"
                              All part of the main stream media disassociation with the real world.
                              O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20570

                                Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View Post
                                All comments have now, apparently, been erased. Someone a little touchy?




                                Having said that, it may be that things were getting a little personal.

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