The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[french frank]

This morning we are back on the music played backward slot. Yuk!!

Isn't that Essential Classics?

[antongould]

Isn't that Essential Classics?

It is indeed FF and seems to be a weekly slot that brings special joy to RC.

[Nick Armstrong]

It is indeed FF and seems to be a weekly slot that brings special joy to RC.

I think ff was gently suggesting you're on the wrong thread, antonio

[antongould]

I think ff was gently suggesting you're on the wrong thread, antonio

Indeed and I was verifying this Your Honour........

[clive heath]

Hoe Down today trailing Brodsky later, followed by the music for dancing choice! Plus ... c'est......chose. Do you think Davey has ever listened to Breakfast and has an understanding of how Petty and Clemmy rechurn their pop pieces desperately seeking the good-will of a few of their listeners?

[antongould]

As FF reminded us on another morning thread this company once assembled a series of suggested pieces for Breakfast and parcelled them off and never received a tweet of any sort from RC or SMP. We, IIRC, kept the pieces under 15 minutes to fit the then wish for headlines/newspapers on the quarter hour - presumably this restriction no longer applies? I do not study the playlists but as a listener do get a sense of slightly longer pieces creeping in........probably just wishful thinking....

[alycidon]

Listening at the moment, I just cannot escape the conclusion that RC is thoroughly bored with his job. Why else would we have to suffer all these trite interruptions to 'proper music'?

[Stanfordian]

Listening at the moment, I just cannot escape the conclusion that RC is thoroughly bored with his job. Why else would we have to suffer all these trite interruptions to 'proper music'?

Hiya alycidon,

I agree. The presenters seem to be getting worse by the day. The powers at BBC Radio 3 Towers won't be satisfied until the station is dumbed down. Those tweets, texts, phone-ins, silly music games and an almost obsession interest in talking to celebrities is very, very wearing. BBC Radio 3 has stopped putting the music first.

Classic FM is a station that I often listen to during various times of the day but one that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.

[alycidon]

Classic FM is a station that I often listen to during various times of the day but one that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.

Hiya Stanfordian

Yes, I listen to FM when I can, but can only receive it through the TV, or the car radio. The little radios in the kitchen and office will not tune in properly. One of the drawbacks of living in a Scottish glen.

[french frank]

We only seem to have the last hour's music on the playlist: but an hour which includes The Four Seasons (Summer), Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, Parry's Jerusalem and the 'Onedin Line' seems a cut or two below Classic FM [also LvanB's Coriolan and Debussy Nocturnes].

[underthecountertenor]

I agree. The presenters seem to be getting worse by the day. The powers at BBC Radio 3 Towers won't be satisfied until the station is dumbed down. Those tweets, texts, phone-ins, silly music games and an almost obsession interest in talking to celebrities is very, very wearing. BBC Radio 3 has stopped putting the music first.

Are you still talking about EC here? I don't think it has, or has ever had, phone-ins. And I understood that they have recently been dropped from Breakfast too.

[french frank]

Are you still talking about EC here? I don't think it has, or has ever had, phone-ins. And I understood that they have recently been dropped from Breakfast too.

There seems to be a common tendency to regard the 5 and a half hours in the morning as a single programme so with a thread for each of them there's a bit of confusion on both.

[Old Grumpy]

There seems to be a common tendency to regard the 5 and a half hours in the morning as a single programme so with a thread for each of them there's a bit of confusion on both.

Perhaps this thread needs to be rebranded as the Bressential Classics thread!

Coat, etc...
OG

[Bryn]

Perhaps this thread needs to be rebranded as the Bressential Classics thread!

Coat, etc...
OG

How about "Morning is broken"?

[french frank]

How about "Morning is broken"?