I’ve been listening to the Saturday Breakfast offering for just half an hour and I feel as if I am listening to a broadcast of Blue Peter at best or Playschool at worst. Elizabeth Alker’s style would be perfect to either programme. It’s the little girl voice combined with the smacking of the lips that makes it unlistenable.
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I agree with Caliban and Paul T, Elizabeth Alker is not a good Radio 3 presenter. Her voice is annoying, her manner condescending, her selection of music irritating. John Shea and Martin Handley are all far better weekend presenters. As is Jonathan Swain on Through the Night. And the less said about Katie Derham the better.
O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt indeed. Weniger ist mehr. . .Last edited by DaisyDog; 22-12-18, 10:17.
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Originally posted by DaisyDog View PostI agree with Caliban and Paul T, Elizabeth Alker is not a good Radio 3 presenter. Her voice is annoying, her manner condescending, her selection of music irritating. John Shea and Martin Handley are all far better weekend presenters. As is Jonathan Swain on Through the Night. And the less said about Katie Derham the better.
O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt indeed. Weniger ist mehr. . .
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It confirms, over and over again, that Radio 3's chief concern is to appeal to new listeners. EA is (I understand) very popular with 6 Music listeners (an R3 target audience). She is also already a BBC presenter and, I'll guess, lives closer to the (weekend) Salford studios than any of the regular R3 presenters. Three pluses to an increasingly less important minus.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 PostIt confirms, over and over again, that Radio 3's chief concern is to appeal to new listeners. EA is (I understand) very popular with 6 Music listeners (an R3 target audience). She is also already a BBC presenter and, I'll guess, lives closer to the (weekend) Salford studios than any of the regular R3 presenters. Three pluses to an increasingly less important minus.
I trust everyone enjoyed the yodelling “Skater’s Waltz” this morning. Another low point. With “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” promised for EC I see no point in continuing to listen. Radio 6 listeners are welcome to it.O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Originally posted by DaisyDog View Post...[EA] is not a good Radio 3 presenter. Her voice is annoying, her manner condescending, her selection of music irritating. John Shea and Martin Handley are all far better weekend presenters. As is Jonathan Swain on Through the Night. And the less said about Katie Derham the better.
Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI’ve been listening to the Saturday Breakfast offering for just half an hour and I feel as if I am listening to a broadcast of Blue Peter at best or Playschool at worst. Elizabeth Alker’s style would be perfect to either programme. It’s the little girl voice combined with the smacking of the lips that makes it unlistenable.
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI’ve never understood the Salford/London studio split.
Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostI trust everyone enjoyed the yodelling “Skater’s Waltz” this morning. Another low point. With “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” promised for EC I see no point in continuing to listen. Radio 6 listeners are welcome to it.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 kernelbogey View PostI've been impressed by the voice and microphone technique of Debbie Russ, who sometimes reads the news. She'd make a good presenter, and perhaps is being prepared for that (I hope). The wonderful Catriona Young is a precedent.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostI agree about Catriona Young - when she was on Radio 4 she was second only to Harriet Cass!
Newsreading and continuity seem to be the regular duties for ex-programme presenters, presumably to make room for the less experienced and/or less qualified.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 kernelbogey View PostI've been impressed by the voice and microphone technique of Debbie Russ, who sometimes reads the news. She'd make a good presenter, and perhaps is being prepared for that (I hope). The wonderful Catriona Young is a precedent.
I agree that reads the news exceptionally well.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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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostGiven her age, I would be surprised if anybody has big plans for Debbie Russ, though I’d love to be wrong. She was a friend at Uni, and listening to her reading passages or parts from works we were studying was an absolute joy.She was a star child actor , most famously on the Double Deckers.
I agree that reads the news exceptionally well.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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One of the joys of 'Breakfast' is (or are) the informative snippets of musical history. Today, we've just been told, marks the bicentenary of the first performance of 'Silent Night', which was accompanied by a guitar because a mouse had damaged the church organ. Petroc also provided a timely reminder that 104 years ago the opposing armies on the Western Front each sang it in their respective language.
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Originally posted by LMcD View PostOne of the joys of 'Breakfast' is (or are) the informative snippets of musical history. Today, we've just been told, marks the bicentenary of the first performance of 'Silent Night', which was accompanied by a guitar because a mouse had damaged the church organ. Petroc also provided a timely reminder that 104 years ago the opposing armies on the Western Front each sang it in their respective language.
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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Richard Tarleton
There was a charming TV programme, I think on BBC, devoted to this subject which aired at Christmas 1978.
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