Saturday Morning - Hannah French hosts a Christmas party, 21/12/2024

[AuntDaisy]

I haven't listened to "Hannah French hosts a Christmas party for Saturday Morning" yet, but HF shared photos on Twitter of the London Vegetable Orchestra and a "more musical solution to a surfeit of carrots, squash and more..." Carrot recorder anyone?

[oddoneout]

Drat. When I did a quick scan of the schedule yesterday I only registered the usual offputting Service physog and didn't see that it wasn't him. Typical - the one Saturday when there might have been something to listen to, and I missed it!

[AuntDaisy]

Drat. When I did a quick scan of the schedule yesterday I only registered the usual offputting Service physog and didn't see that it wasn't him. Typical - the one Saturday when there might have been something to listen to, and I missed it!

Ditto, I'd normally avoid Tom Service - and his fluffy mug was prominent on the listings!

[LMcD]

Ditto, I'd normally avoid Tom Service - and his fluffy mug was prominent on the listings!

Is this fluffy mug something to drink from or a form of bespoke facial adornment?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Drat. When I did a quick scan of the schedule yesterday I only registered the usual offputting Service physog and didn't see that it wasn't him. Typical - the one Saturday when there might have been something to listen to, and I missed it!

Unless you like endless syrupy Christmas fare like Have Yourself A merry etc played by a brass band you weren’t missing much. All the sequence programmes are playing exactly the same stuff at the moment Tin Pan Alley Christmas songs , carols , and orchestrated carols with the odd bit of Christmas repeated classical music like Hansel And Gretel just on now.

It’s like drowning in a vast bowl of candied mincemeat with insufficient brandy.

Through The Night beckons when I have enough charge in on the IPhone to get it streaming .
Just forked out £170 on a new FM Aerial to replace a wind damaged one . Why did I bother ?

[AuntDaisy]

Is this fluffy mug something to drink from or a form of bespoke facial adornment?

[french frank]

Unless you like endless syrupy Christmas fare like Have Yourself A merry etc played by a brass band you weren’t missing much.

Anyway, if you couldn't tell from the crass marketing (thanks, Aunt Daisy) who the programme was aimed at, you haven't been attending. Presenters like Hannah French, with her musical background, are only there to reassure ypu that standards haven't dropped. But if you don't value a programme for the presenter, not even that works.

[AuntDaisy]

Unless you like endless syrupy Christmas fare like Have Yourself A merry etc played by a brass band you weren’t missing much. All the sequence programmes are playing exactly the same stuff at the moment Tin Pan Alley Christmas songs , carols , and orchestrated carols with the odd bit of Christmas repeated classical music like Hansel And Gretel just on now.

It’s like drowning in a vast bowl of candied mincemeat with insufficient brandy.

Through The Night beckons when I have enough charge in on the IPhone to get it streaming .
Just forked out £170 on a new FM Aerial to replace a wind damaged one . Why did I bother ?

Thanks for the warnings.
R3 had the perfect remedy for you - "Mindful Mix: A Choral Christmas"

Talking of which... Do you remember "Choral Christmas" from 2007? Three Evening Concerts in a row...

• The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers. Including Poulenc's Little Prayers of St Francis, Britten's Ceremony of Carols and four motets from Durufle.
• The Cardinall's Musick conducted by Andrew Carwood in their annual Christmas concert, featuring baroque Christmas choral music
• The BBC Singers conducted by Peter Philips perform A Tudor Christmas, including Tallis's Spem in Alium.

Then think of "FNIM Sounds of Christmas"!

[LMcD]

Unless you like endless syrupy Christmas fare like Have Yourself A merry etc played by a brass band you weren’t missing much. All the sequence programmes are playing exactly the same stuff at the moment Tin Pan Alley Christmas songs , carols , and orchestrated carols with the odd bit of Christmas repeated classical music like Hansel And Gretel just on now.

It’s like drowning in a vast bowl of candied mincemeat with insufficient brandy.

Through The Night beckons when I have enough charge in on the IPhone to get it streaming .
Just forked out £170 on a new FM Aerial to replace a wind damaged one . Why did I bother ?

I really enjoyed the BBC Singers' rendition of the Sussex Carol to the tune of Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, which they completed in Just (Over) A Minute, thereby cunningly alluding to two of my favourite Radio 4 programmes. My thanks to the producer/editor of this morning's BH..

[Ein Heldenleben]

Anyway, if you couldn't tell from the crass marketing (thanks, Aunt Daisy) who the programme was aimed at, you haven't been attending. Presenters like Hannah French, with her musical background, are only there to reassure ypu that standards haven't dropped. But if you don't value a programme for the presenter, not even that works.

It’s a waste of her talents isn’t it? And a vegetable orchestra doesn’t work on Radio they could just as easily be playing Kazoos. Mind you want there a very popular radio ventriloquist once.

I know it’s all a bit of fun but going back a few years didn’t Radio 3 generally put out that years Bayreuth Ring cycle in December ? What if you don’t want fun but some serious intellectual engagement at Christmas . Isn’t it a serious time of the year ?

[Ein Heldenleben]

Thanks for the warnings.
R3 had the perfect remedy for you - "Mindful Mix: A Choral Christmas"

Talking of which... Do you remember "Choral Christmas" from 2007? Three Evening Concerts in a row...

• The Sixteen conducted by Harry Christophers. Including Poulenc's Little Prayers of St Francis, Britten's Ceremony of Carols and four motets from Durufle.
• The Cardinall's Musick conducted by Andrew Carwood in their annual Christmas concert, featuring baroque Christmas choral music
• The BBC Singers conducted by Peter Philips perform A Tudor Christmas, including Tallis's Spem in Alium.

Then think of "FNIM Sounds of Christmas"!

I heard 15 minutes of it thanks.

I’d rather they ran a cycle of Bruckner symphonies.

[AuntDaisy]

I really enjoyed the BBC Singers' rendition of the Sussex Carol to the tune of Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, which they completed in Just (Over) A Minute, thereby cunningly alluding to two of my favourite Radio 4 programmes. My thanks to the producer/editor of this morning's BH..

Just found it, ~27:10 in, Broadcasting House.

[Nick Armstrong]

It’s like drowning in a vast bowl of candied mincemeat with insufficient brandy.

[oliver sudden]

Is this fluffy mug something to drink from or a form of bespoke facial adornment?

He has one too, eh?

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80997

[french frank]

What if you don’t want fun but some serious intellectual engagement at Christmas . Isn’t it a serious time if the year ?

Yes, there are people who nod their heads at the internet cartoon: "I had fun once: it was awful." The inventor of this fine saying seems to have become lost in the cybercosmos.