The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Radio64]

I sincerely hope you are joking.

I'm sorry to have to tell you that I'm not! ..just an idea.



I'll get my coat (again).

[Black Swan]

I don't what it's going to be like when She's back on! Will everyone be switching off?

I can only comment for myself, but yes I will be switching off.

[french frank]

How far are you going back ff - I well remember Heldenleben, Daphnis complete and Eroica being played in the 7-8 slot!

I was really thinking of the immediate predecessor, Morning on 3, which was thought so 'inaccessible' that it had to be made lighter. Even On Air, introduced in 1992 to get the BBC retaliation in first before the imminent launch of Classic FM, was reported in this way by Gillian Reynolds:

"On Air stepped lightly into place yesterday morning at 7am... Nicholas Kenyon ... has lived long enough in New York to know a good pattern when he hears it, which is why the new Radio 3 model follows it, with news on the hour, headlines every twenty minutes ... and carefully timed bands of music between."

That doesn't seem to allow for an Eroica, still less a long exegesis about it. So, when I wrote 'Since when', since when?

Another interesting quote from 'Envy':

"Paul Donovan in the Sunday Times wrote that he had asked the chief executive of Classic FM what he thought of Kenyon's changes: '"I do feel," he said, "that we set out our stall quite early on and that they are now changing to a format which is obviously closer to ours. That convergence will contribute inevitably to a reduction in choice." I put this to Kenyon. "Absolutely untrue," he said. Let's hope he's right.'

[underthecountertenor]

it would certainly be embarrassing to be told one had been seen in Tesco's.

"He's been had up for exposing himself in Sainsbury's doorway. As Mother said, 'Tesco, you could understand it.'"
Alan Bennett, A Chip in the Sugar

[cloughie]

"He's been had up for exposing himself in Sainsbury's doorway. As Mother said, 'Tesco, you could understand it.'"
Alan Bennett, A Chip in the Sugar

Reminds me of Alan Coren's quip about Sainsbury's serving a good purpose in keeping the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

[Radio64]

Gotta love the British .. even which supermarket you go to determines your class.

[french frank]

"He's been had up for exposing himself in Sainsbury's doorway. As Mother said, 'Tesco, you could understand it.'"
Alan Bennett, A Chip in the Sugar

Or Alan Coren: "I like Tescos. It keeps the riffraff out of Waitrose." Just shows the social difference between Bennett and Coren?

[underthecountertenor]

I don't think there were any Waitroses in that part of England in 1987. Tesco, Sainsbury's or, if you were lucky, Morrisons.

[underthecountertenor]

[By which I mean the North, not North London]

[cloughie]

I don't think there were any Waitroses in that part of England in 1987. Tesco, Sainsbury's or, if you were lucky, Morrisons.

Still none in this part of Cornwall in 2014!

[cloughie]

Or Alan Coren: "I like Tescos. It keeps the riffraff out of Waitrose." Just shows the social difference between Bennett and Coren?

Excuse my pedantry ff but it was Sainsbury's not Tesco!

http://www.nickjordan.co.uk/2010/12/10/ask-nick-supermarket-hierarchy/

[mercia]

Gotta love the British .. even which supermarket you go to determines your class.

are there not more upmarket supermarkets in Italy ?

[vinteuil]

are there not more upmarket supermarkets in Italy ?

... if you're upmarket in Italy, you don't go to supermarkets. Conad, Coal, Coop etc are for the canaglia...

[Radio64]

... if you're upmarket in Italy, you don't go to supermarkets. Conad, Coal, Coop etc are for the canaglia...

yes thats' probably more like it. An ex-boss of mine only used to venture to the Co-op once a year, at Christmas to buy her Berlucchi, Moet Chandon etc., in her fur coat. "They have doors that open by themselves!" was always her comment.
But that's very élite... think "Absoloutely Fabulous"

We do have the cheapo "discount" ones like LIDL, Euro-spin ..


We are now fabulously off-topic.

[Old Grumpy]

We are now fabulously off-topic.

That's the beauty of Breakfast!