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The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI've never heard smoke and mirrors!
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostYou have now! See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_and_mirrors .
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostNo, I know the term, I just imagine them to be rather silent hence I've not heard them, seen them, yes but not heard.
have Faith, Cloughie, and you WILL hear Smoke and Mirrors...
It might have made an appearance at last years Proms......I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Was it my imagination, or was Breakfast ever so slightly better this morning? There seemed to be more music and less twittering, though the continuing twee accent with the "ü" sounds was as irritating as ever. Nevertheless, credit where it's due (or düe).
Or was I just lucky when I happened to switch on the radio?
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostOr was I just lucky when I happened to switch on the radio?
If none of that bothers individuals, it may still be pretty much to their taste at 8am. I shall listen to it to see how the music comes over in the context of intelligent presentation. I don't expect it to win me over, but who knows? …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 find the playlist particularly UNinviting: a record number of single movements, more individual pieces than any of our 'listening panel' found (which means either there was a LOT less waffling or the average length of pieces was somewhere below Classic FM's), and still managing a piece of Girl Crazy, of Leroy Anderson and Piazzolla.
If none of that bothers individuals, it may still be pretty much to their taste at 8am. I shall listen to it to see how the music comes over in the context of intelligent presentation. I don't expect it to win me over, but who knows? …
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI have no idea what KD's legs are like (but presume that she possesses the usual tally of two thereof), nor would I pronounce upon her prowess or otherwise as a actor but, since her legs are not obviously visible on R3 when she's presenting and she was presumably not contracted to present programmes on that channel on the groundsof the quality either of said limbs or her acting ability, it all sounds rather like smoke and mirrors to me; to cloughie's remark that "CB-H makes KD sound good" I can only respond that this is not so because CB-H sounds like CB-H and KD like KD without a scrap of help (or hindrance) one from t'other.
Please don't dismiss KD's great legs as they were considered important enough to be discussed by her fellow presenters on Radio 3 the other week. I kid you not!
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostHiya ahinton,
Please don't dismiss KD's great legs as they were considered important enough to be discussed by her fellow presenters on Radio 3 the other week. I kid you not!
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostI don't do that; I merely mentioned not having seen them and pointed out the obvious, neamly that they cut very little ice for the R3 listener as they're not visible when she's presenting there and are therefore not regarded as an asset to her as a presenter.
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Originally posted by antongould View Post...... and, to be fair, pictures of composers .....
That said, unless my calculations were hopelessly wrong (which could be as I was doing quick 'back of metaphorical fag-packet' additions), this was by some very significant amount a higher music-to-speech ratio than anyone else had found in a couple of dozen soundings. It therefore doesn't seem the moment to make some nitpicking comments about details - other than, as I've said, the playlist wasn't the most interesting. So more I will not say
Ooh, except that there does seem to be an attempt to keep most of the trails &c. to the pre news breaks. They may have been doing that for some time, of course.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 have done a detailed listening to this morning's programmme and in order to get the timings I've had to sit looking at a large picture of the presenter. Admittedly, there were more pictures of composers, but only thumbnails and all were out of sight if you were watching the clock :-(
That said, unless my calculations were hopelessly wrong (which could be as I was doing quick 'back of metaphorical fag-packet' additions), this was by some very significant amount a higher music-to-speech ratio than anyone else had found in a couple of dozen soundings. It therefore doesn't seem the moment to make some nitpicking comments about details - other than, as I've said, the playlist wasn't the most interesting. So more I will not say
Ooh, except that there does seem to be an attempt to keep most of the trails &c. to the pre news breaks. They may have been doing that for some time, of course.
And yes ff after years of, hopefully friendly, sparring we agree that slowly but surely things are moving in the right direction ....
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Originally posted by antongould View PostScarily, and if this doesn't get me excluded nothing will, in the morning I listen on an iPad and when it goes into screensaver mode the composer appears ...
And yes ff after years of, hopefully friendly, sparring we agree that slowly but surely things are moving in the right direction ....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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