The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[antongould]

"My CD of the week". Well I chose it and I've decided which tracks to play from it and I wrote all my scripts and chose all the other music and worked out all the timings - I've worked quite hard to make this the seamless smooth-running finished product that it is. I didn't just saunter into the studio 30 seconds before transmission in my bowtie and dinner jacket, with everything worked out and arranged for me. I'm not a mere continuity announcer you know.

So you are the "BBC insider" mercs - I claim my £5......

[Richard Tarleton]

"My CD of the week". Well I chose it and I've decided which tracks to play from it and I wrote all my scripts and chose all the other music and worked out all the timings - I've worked quite hard to make this the seamless smooth-running finished product that it is. I didn't just saunter into the studio 30 seconds before transmission in my bowtie and dinner jacket, with everything worked out and arranged for me. I'm not a mere continuity announcer you know.

In other words, mercs, you've curated it (quote CB-H, in one of those articles.....)

[Richard Tarleton]

He has confirmed. Or rather denied. He made a grammatical error, though HG has also said he is NOT a BBC insider either. I had concluded that, as a now retired person, HG spent a lot of time on the internet finding out little nuggets of information that are there for anyone to see. He merely supports the BBC against all critics and may well have close connections with the BBC while not being, now, an 'insider'. Richard Tarleton definitely did NOT mean that he (Richard Tarleton) was a BBC insider; and he isn't.

Thanks ff - no indeed, and yes I did. My sentence should of course have read "But I imagine the sort of [...] would have been anathema to you, as a BBC insider, HG." Anyway this is very helpful.

[cloughie]

You put your finger on the difference. I would understand that as slightly tongue in cheek humility. Not:

If you have been, thanks for listening to me, John Ebdon, back with you tomorrow. Join me [John Ebdon (optional)], same time, same place.

If people turned on just when he was finishing, it's no good saying 'Thanks for listening' to them, because they haven't been.

I seem to remember the sign off from Ian Skidmore who took over the post Today on Mondays 8.45. I remember the statement because in these times of limited concentration it is rather appropriate!

[french frank]

In other words, mercs, you've curated it (quote CB-H, in one of those articles.....)

And Radio 3 has now been able to dispense with all the production staff ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

have you ever experienced those truly horrific muscle cramps induced by various hypertension medications .... in the midst of an agonising explosion of cramp in my lower legs this morning, it had me hopping and staggering, i paused to turn off CB_H; and then resumed the attempt to abate the lesser agony ....

she cooed aaahs to an interviewee like a true Greater Crested Gushwit ....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Today at around 8.20, the presenter was telling us something relevant. Between two related sentences, she said "I'm Clemency Burton-Hill," all without taking a breath.

Sometimes, I really do wonder.

[Black Swan]

I have had a Breakfast Show free 9 days as I have been attending the York Early Music Festival. As I am not working, I don't need to get up early and I find that the clammer on breakfast a fantastic stimulus to get out of bed, to shut off the radio and load the CD player.

[Richard Tarleton]

Today at around 8.20, the presenter was telling us something relevant. Between two related sentences, she said "I'm Clemency Burton-Hill," all without taking a breath.

Sometimes, I really do wonder.

It's time for a Balliol Rhyme - first line:-

I am Clemency Burton-Hill
...[etc]

Example:

My name is George Nathaniel Curzon,
I am a most superior person.
My cheeks are pink, my hair is sleek,
I dine at Blenheim twice a week.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[Zucchini]

,,,on breakfast a fantastic stimulus to get out of bed, to shut off the radio and load the CD player.

I really can't understand why anyone should want to (half) listen to a classical CD in the early morning.

Better by far to listen to an attractive girl whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

[Radio64]

I really can't understand why anyone should want to (half) listen to a classical CD in the early morning.

Better by far to listen to an attractive girl whispering sweet nothings in your ear.

Pass the milk would you please?

[Don Petter]

For RT.

I'm Clemency Burton-Hill
Away with both trouble and ill
My sole R3 function
Is absolute unction
Far better than capsule or pill

[Honoured Guest]

My name is Clemmie Burton-Hill,
My mammaries are leaking still.
I rise so early every morn
To read your tweets and witter corn.

[Richard Tarleton]

I knew this was asking for trouble

Good opener Don, I may have to relax the rules to allow limericks. I was trying to come up with something a little less controversial, HG - along the lines of

My name is Clemmie Burton-Hill
I'm gifted, witty, clever....still,
Although my tweeting drives you mad
I'm just as famous as my dad.......