Originally posted by Padraig
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Honoured Guest
Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt was. Alan Keith was never patronising. He could never have been on Breakfast.
"This (pause) is (longer pause) Al-aaaaaan (pause) Keith. (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)"
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AK had the confidence not to fall over his own words. He spoke in complete sentences and put full stops at the end. But your example is total rubbish (w.a.s); he never spoke like that, even when his speech became slurred towards the end of his life. It's only today's presenters who jabber about themselves, desperately needing to be noticed and pleading for someone to text them.
Furthermore, AK's programme was at 9.00 p.m.
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Very unkind of you, Honoured Guest. If you had been a listener you would have heard him unfailingly wish you well at the end of each programme. Old-fashioned kindness, I suppose.
Mind you, he had his pet hates. I remember well the night he struck what I thought was a blow for freedom from BBC-speak. He had his own way of putting things, but presciently he noticed the start of a new departure for presenters. With a degree of disdain in his voice he said something like - "I've been told to say this: 'You are listening to Your Hundred Best Tunes with me Alan Keith on BBC Radio 2.'"
Sound familiar?
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Honoured Guest
Originally posted by Padraig View Post... presciently he noticed the start of a new departure for presenters. With a degree of disdain in his voice he said something like - "I've been told to say this: 'You are listening to Your Hundred Best Tunes with me Alan Keith on BBC Radio 2.'"
Sound familiar?
The Alan Keith Show was broadcast between 9 and 10pm but it didn't go out live, did it?
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Richard Tarleton
I've only dropped into this thread out of idle curiosity, having long since given up on Breakfast, but what on earth has provoked these waspish, intemperate and unkind remarks about Alan Keith? He was a well-loved broadcaster for much of his long life, like his fellow-nonagenarian Alistair Cooke (whose dates are, incidentally, almost identical). But as a BBC insider I imagine the sort of individuality they personified would have been anathema to you, HG.
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Originally posted by Honoured Guest View PostSo, he thought that he, as a presenter, was more important than his employer? That contradicts Ena's claim that he was self-effacing.
The Alan Keith Show was broadcast between 9 and 10pm but it didn't go out live, did it?
Does it?
Did it not?*
*What was the Alan Keith Show?
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Originally posted by Honoured Guest View PostSo, he thought that he, as a presenter, was more important than his employer? That contradicts Ena's claim that he was self-effacing.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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Originally posted by Honoured Guest View PostSo, he thought that he, as a presenter, was more important than his employer?
We listen to the presenter as part of the programme but ‘listening with’ him/her? Where did this idea come from?
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostIt goes in parallel with the "Thank you for joining me" nonsense.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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