Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie
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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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HARRIET HAVARD
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Young lady presenting Breakfast for the last two mornings - nice picture of her waiting to give Mr. Cameron some daffs on the website. Can't be whatevered to look back and see if she has been mentioned hereabouts before. Seemed quite pleasant as I chased the grandchildren around .....only 3 pieces in the first half hour of Saturday including John Field. Ended her stint on an appropriate bit of Keith Jarrett....so possibly not all bad?
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Originally posted by antongould View PostYoung lady presenting Breakfast for the last two mornings - nice picture of her waiting to give Mr. Cameron some daffs on the website. Can't be whatevered to look back and see if she has been mentioned hereabouts before. Seemed quite pleasant as I chased the grandchildren around .....only 3 pieces in the first half hour of Saturday including John Field. Ended her stint on an appropriate bit of Keith Jarrett....so possibly not all bad?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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But any of the BBC regulars and thousands of others who no-one has yet heard of could present Breakfast. That isn't the issue. The "careful preparation" is:
1. Repeat your name every 5 minutes.
2. Ask for texts and tweets; if you don't get any, make a few up.
3. Smarm over the listeners throughout.
4. Start speaking as soon as the music stops (or even earlier) and don't stop to take a breath (except in midsentence) as the listeners are hanging on to your every word and will switch off if there is anything resembling silence.
5. Choose your music carefully by checking that all the pieces of background music played between your important chatter would fit on one side of a 78 rpm disc.
6. Keep a musical balance - i.e. nothing more recent than "The Lark Ascending".
7. Ensure your grammatical howlers will pass unnoticed by speaking them with a posh accent.
8. Thank the listeners for their company, even though they you don't know who they are and (like my cat) don't really care whether you live or die.
9. Practise passing the baton to the Essential Classics, again ensuring there is no sound gap of any kind, just to ensure that listeners will not switch off or retune to something requiring more advanced utilisation of the brain.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post5. Choose your music carefully by checking that ...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 french frank View PostI thought you were going to say, 'that it has already been played once this week'. Someone is grumping on Facebook that as R3 is the 'culture station' why do some presenters struggle to pronounce French, German and Italian titles ...
Anything like twerking?
I think we should be told!
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Originally posted by french frank View PostJust been emailed about her - Victoria Meakin from (sometimes) Radio 5 Live. Could illustrate the point that you don't absolutely have to be a professional musician/musicologist (nor an actress, novelist, political commentator!) in order to be a perfectly competent Breakfast presenter. Just careful preparation ...
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostWell, since you mention it, what I heard of her was perfectly incompetent and completely unprepared. I've just dipped into this morning's programme to see if there was a tribute to Carlo Bergonzi. There sort of was, but she made a hash of it, not mentioning the aria played (Celeste Aida), or the orchestra or conductor, and generally giving the impression that she had no idea who Bergonzi was. Later on, she managed to make a complete mess of pronouncing the Missa Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat, saying 'I am' instead of iam both before and after it was played (no one on hand to correct her, evidently). She clearly felt much more at home reading out emails about walking down the aisle to Widor's toccata etc etc. Reinforcing the general impression that, in the absence of Martin H, they'll chuck anyone on of a weekend.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 underthecountertenor View Post...she managed to make a complete mess of pronouncing the Missa Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat, saying 'I am' instead of iam both before and after it was played...
(I've given up commenting on the young gentlemen who offer strange pronunciations of Latin in the course of Choral Evensong - even sometimes from the pulpit!)
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