The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Old Grumpy]

And if R3 needs listeners to suggest pieces, I don't see the need to tell everyone on air who that person was. Stuff a fiver in an envelope to them with a thank-you note.

FF, are you suggesting those requesting send a fiver to the BBC , or the BBC send a fiver to the requester?

OG

[french frank]

FF, are you suggesting those requesting send a fiver to the BBC , or the BBC send a fiver to the requester?

OG

The latter - for being deprived of their one minute moment of fame!

[Nick Armstrong]

Georgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman

King Lear, Act 5 sc. 3

[Anastasius]

Georgia Mann is the new favourite but she has a voice that is too ‘dark’ for me, deep and sonorous .....

I could listen to her all day as I think she has a fabulous voice and, unlike all the other recent and not so recent (no-names-no-packdrill but we all know who) female presenters, she does not sound as if she is reading from Janet and John Book 2.

She really is a breath of fresh air.

[ahinton]

I could listen to her all day as I think she has a fabulous voice and, unlike all the other recent and not so recent (no-names-no-packdrill but we all know who) female presenters, she does not sound as if she is reading from Janet and John Book 2.

!!!

Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?

She really is a breath of fresh air.

Better that than a breath of hot ditto...

[Anastasius]

!!!

Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?


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Correct!

[french frank]

Not having yet heard her, might I presume her presentational virtues to include the avoidance of strangulated mispronunciatons of foreign names?

What! You mean you missed her 'Gentilhombre'? Worth listening to for that initial Spanish 'g' alone.

[muzzer]

And as they have given us all this week GM, so they taketh away at the weekend with TMc.............

[Paulie55]

Is this the proper place to say that I enjoy Breakfast? I find the mix and length of pieces about right, both presenters excellent and the texts, emails, newspapers and trailers no real "problem".

Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key. Too much singing as well.

[cloughie]

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman

King Lear, Act 5 sc. 3

Just that old sweet voice keeps Georgia on our minds!

[alycidon]

Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key. Too much singing as well.

Yes, Paulie, I completely agree with your comments. I have long since given up on Breakfast as being too painful to listen to. Just my personal opinion, of course.

[ahinton]

What! You mean you missed her 'Gentilhombre'? Worth listening to for that initial Spanish 'g' alone.

Indeed so (and I missed your post until now! - sorry)...

[ahinton]

Too much talking, too many texts and tweets, too many stupid comments and the music is often too low key.

Indeed - and with all those tweets, it might only be a matter of time before we start getting them from Donald Duck - I mean Trump - I mean Dump-Truck - urging BBC R3 to make Breakfast great again...

[ahinton]

[I][B]Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman

The Bard had clearly not foreseen the virtues of high sopranos of the calibre of Jane Manning and Sarah Leonard...

[antongould]

All the top music you could ever need on The Squire's Breakfast .... yesterday (?) Mieczyslaw Weinberg and this morning The Blaydon Races .......