The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[antongould]

It wasn't Tárrega by any chance was it? Acc. to the Beeb, things like this have to go all the way to the top, and all the way down again. I think the producer was bucking the system by simply telling him.

Sadly much more of a schoolboy error - Dame Ethel Smith .....

[Beef Oven!]

I think he is excellent ......

I'm quite a fan, if I may put it that way without it being taken too literally.

[french frank]

Sadly much more of a schoolboy error - Dame Ethel Smith .....

I was not going to say, Lord Gould. The point is, it doesn't matter how 'elementary' the error is: it should be put right. We all have 'elementary' blind spots. What really grates is when people prattle on, revealing their ignorance to the audience but either being unaware of it themselves or hoping to brazen it out. When such as these set themselves up as some sort of expert - that grates. I don't feel that about Mr Trelawny. Myself.

[Richard Tarleton]

Sadly much more of a schoolboy error - Dame Ethel Smith .....

Ah! The First Lady of the Hammond Organ

[french frank]

Ah! The First Lady of the Hammond Organ

Hey, what a dame!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I was not going to say, Lord Gould. The point is, it doesn't matter how 'elementary' the error is: it should be put right. We all have 'elementary' blind spots. What really grates is when people prattle on, revealing their ignorance to the audience but either being unaware of it themselves or hoping to brazen it out. When such as these set themselves up as some sort of expert - that grates. I don't feel that about Mr Trelawny. Myself.

He can be an extremely good presenter, but there's something of an inconsistency in his content, and his lack of verbal punctuation can be particularly tiresome.

True colours? "Abroad, when I explain where I am from, the inevitable response is: 'So you are English.' 'No,' I reply, 'Cornish.' I’ll accept British, or European, but being described as English is something that rankles with most Cornishmen."

[vinteuil]

Sadly much more of a schoolboy error - Dame Ethel Smith .....

... I may, then, have been pronouncing it 'wrongly' for years. I've tended to have it rhyme with lithe - but wiki tells me it shd rhyme with Forsyth ...

"Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (/smaɪθ/, to rhyme with Forsyth)" .

But ectually I'm pretty sure a good case cd be made for it to be pronounced "Smith" to rhyme with myth.

Or even "Smiff" to rhyme wiv spliff...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But ectually I'm pretty sure a good case cd be made for it to be pronounced "Smith" to rhyme with myth.

Or even "Smiff" to rhyme wiv spliff...

Why? Was Dame Ethel a cockney?

[Serial_Apologist]

Why? Was Dame Ethel a cockney?

Yes

[Richard Tarleton]

But ectually I'm pretty sure a good case cd be made for it to be pronounced "Smith" to rhyme with myth.

Certainly common to widespread in N Ireland

[MrGongGong]

Or even "Smiff" to rhyme wiv spliff...

Why? Was Dame Ethel a cockney?

I'm sure out new friend Natty Dread would be able to advise if he can get his head together (maaan)

[french frank]

Hope you didn't miss the Breakfast prog where they played La Monte Young, Gongers. Now that wouldn't have happened under the previous management!

[antongould]

........ I don't feel that about Mr Trelawny. Myself.

Neither do I ....

[CallMePaul]

Did nobody else motice the massive boob made this morning by Victoria Meakin? She played a recording of La Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto and claimed it was by Tito Gobbi! OK he was born 100 years ago today as she stated, but he would never have sung a tenor aria - not in public anyway! How do BBC producers get away with this? Gobbi, of course, was a baritone and [I]La Donna e Mobile/I] is one of the main tenor showpieces in Italian opera! Someone needs shooting!

[french frank]

Playlist says Tito Gobbi. If it was the EMI recording with Callas and di Stefano, he might have been lurking in the background …