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  • Cockney Sparrow
    Full Member
    • Jan 2014
    • 2272

    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    The EC commissioning brief did say it was to 'hold on to as much of the Breakfast audience as possible'. And that the Breakfast programme was a 'primary entry point for new listeners'. Oh, and EC was to attract Radio 4 listeners who had been listening to the Today programme up to 9am.
    Or even those who switch over when Woman's Hour starts (actually, when the preceding c45 second cross BBC Platform puff starts)

    (I rarely look in at this thread - and although I have looked at few posts or pages here, I have to admire the stamina of members who can sustain their criticisms, personal antipathies to presenters, etc for 525 pages. I suppose the innovations such as guest interviews, the delights to be found in tweets to be shared with us all re-invigorates the flow of bile. Myself I'd replay Through the Night all morning if I wanted to hear R3 in the style of 20 or more years ago).

    (Don't think I don't have my own dislikes - those young nonentities on Sunday morning when Martin Handley isn't presenting are a matter of grief when I seek a refuge from "Morning Service" on Radio 4 - just as an example. But for the record, I have no objections to Sarah Walker or Rob Cowan).

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    • Don Petter

      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      What, as is Gogol?
      I did wonder if I'd been pronouncing it wrongly, so I looked on line before posting and found several entries gave 'GOH-gol', and none for 'Goggle', which seemed good enough!

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37314

        Everyone rushes to check on Goggle!

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        • french frank
          Administrator/Moderator
          • Feb 2007
          • 29879

          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          Everyone rushes to check on Goggle!
          No, they don't because that's Essential Classics, not Breakfast . What they rush to check, after yesterday, is how to pronounce Semiramide and Semiramis <smug smiley> . Oh, and they censure the producers of the running order since they should know presenters will just read what they see written down "Come nave in ria tempest" ???

          1. Eng: Se-MIR-amis; Italian Semi-RA-mide (not SemiraMEEdeh)
          2. 'Come nave in ria tempest' has an 'a' missing at the end: tempesta. If you google the whole title (sans 'a') the top four hits (and several others) link back to the BBC R3/Music. That's education …
          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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          • Stanfordian
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 9286

            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
            Was that before or after she referred to the famous Russian author as 'Goggle'?
            Hiya Don,

            Surely not 'google' as in search engine? I wonder what was going on there?

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            • Don Petter

              Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
              Hiya Don,

              Surely not 'google' as in search engine? I wonder what was going on there?
              No, 'goggle', as in what you did when informed of the great industrial pasta revolution!

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12662

                Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                pasta
                ... ah the great Pasta! - a revolution, indeed, and she was, I'm sure much goggled at. Never thought of her as 'industrial', tho'...

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26439

                  Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                  ... ah the great Pasta! - a revolution, indeed, and she was, I'm sure much goggled at. Never thought of her as 'industrial', tho'...

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuditta_Pasta
                  I wonder how saucy she was...

                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Don Petter

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    I wonder how saucy she was...

                    Oh! Not at all! 'Casta Pasta Diva'.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26439

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... ah the great Pasta! - a revolution, indeed, and she was, I'm sure much goggled at. Never thought of her as 'industrial', tho'...

                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuditta_Pasta
                      She rather overshadowed her pioneering orthodontist uncle, Al Dente
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        She rather overshadowed her pioneering orthodontist uncle, Al Dente
                        Well, he didn't count, being of foreign extraction.

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                        • Serial_Apologist
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 37314

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          She rather overshadowed her pioneering orthodontist uncle, Al Dente
                          This is getting pasta joke!

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22066

                            Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                            This is getting pasta joke!
                            I guess Lasagne Verdi is not suitable for the breakfast menu!

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                            • StephenO

                              Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes -

                              My girlfriend laughed at me when I told her I was building a car out of spaghetti. You should have seen her face when I drove pasta.

                              Changing the subject (and sorry if this has been mentioned before), please could someone ask Clemency not to keep telling us that we can listen to Radio 3 "on line, on digital and on yer mobile"? I never have and never will listen to Radio 3 on "me mobile".

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22066

                                Originally posted by StephenO View Post
                                Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes -

                                My girlfriend laughed at me when I told her I was building a car out of spaghetti. You should have seen her face when I drove pasta.

                                Changing the subject (and sorry if this has been mentioned before), please could someone ask Clemency not to keep telling us that we can listen to Radio 3 "on line, on digital and on yer mobile"? I never have and never will listen to Radio 3 on "me mobile".
                                I guess your plea for Clemency will go unheeded.

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