The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[underthecountertenor]

Does anyone else remember the occasion some twenty plus years ago when the R3 announcer spilt tea into the mixing console of the studio and everything went dead and then, after a period of silence, said announcer, sounding rather breathless, informed listeners that a change of studio had been required?

Radio gold, I wish I'd been recording it

Don't remember that one, but I do remember an occasion when a record which was played to fill time between programmes had the most appalling surface noise. After it finished the announcer (possibly Peter Barker) informed us, apologetically, that he had used tea to clean the record (remembering from his schooldays that tea was supposed to be a good solvent), but remembered too late that he'd already put sugar in the tea.

[antongould]

Presumably that means that Skelly is the permanent other presenter, while Trelawny is the maternity leave cover?

Good point well made....

[Radio64]

Presumably that means that Skelly is the permanent other presenter, while Trelawny is the maternity leave cover?

I thought Pet 'n' Clems were the "regulars"?

promo pic here (I won't embed it so as not to offend anyone...)

[underthecountertenor]

Petroc IS the other regular. Sir Velo is making mischief, I suspect.

[Sir Velo]

Petroc IS the other regular. Sir Velo is making mischief, I suspect.

Purely an inference made from the information supplied. If you thank someone for holding the fort, then presumably they are the locum. No?

[Radio64]

Purely an inference made from the information supplied. If you thank someone for holding the fort, then presumably they are the locum. No?

So she should have thanked Mr Skelly really ... oops naughty Clemmy!

[Nick Armstrong]

Don't remember that one, but I do remember an occasion when a record which was played to fill time between programmes had the most appalling surface noise. After it finished the announcer (possibly Peter Barker) informed us, apologetically, that he had used tea to clean the record (remembering from his schooldays that tea was supposed to be a good solvent), but remembered too late that he'd already put sugar in the tea.

[Nick Armstrong]

The place is obviously in need of some ...glamour.

[Nick Armstrong]

The talk of maternity leave culminated in a reference to the (continually hyped) New Generation Artists as 'my other babies.'

Good job I wasn't listening. This would have led to an instant projectile test of the ballistic qualities of semi-digested muesli...

[underthecountertenor]

Purely an inference made from the information supplied. If you thank someone for holding the fort, then presumably they are the locum. No?

You don't need to draw inferences when you know the facts. And PT did hold the fort as well, in the sense that he did most of CBH's weeks as well as his own, with IS doing a few as well. So it's just mischief-making. Impolite, to say the least, of CBH to fail to acknowledge IS (especially given that he was on only last week). THAT, if anything, is surely the point here.

[underthecountertenor]

Good job I wasn't listening. This would have led to an instant projectile test of the ballistic qualities of semi-digested muesli...

[Radio64]

...Impolite, to say the least, of CBH to fail to acknowledge IS (especially given that he was on only last week). THAT, if anything, is surely the point here.

Quite right! Ms. B-H needs a good "seeing to" for that particular gaffe

[Nick Armstrong]

Quite right! Ms. B-H needs a good "seeing to" for that particular gaffe

Caliban puts hand to Moderator Light Sabre in scabbard...

[Radio64]

Caliban puts hand to Moderator Light Sabre in scabbard...

May your Moderator Force be with you

[french frank]

You don't need to draw inferences when you know the facts. And PT did hold the fort as well, in the sense that he did most of CBH's weeks as well as his own, with IS doing a few as well. So it's just mischief-making. Impolite, to say the least, of CBH to fail to acknowledge IS (especially given that he was on only last week). THAT, if anything, is surely the point here.

Forensically argued. I was emailed and asked whether I knew where Petroc was. I didn't know but wondered if he was on holiday having shouldered both his own and some of CB-H's progs ...

Another email this morning commenting today's presenter...