3beebies aka Breakfast

[ardcarp]

Sparafucile on the Starkey thread dubbed Breakfast thus. Maybe if we all used this new name for the programme the BBC spies who keep an eye cocked on this Forum might get the message.

[Chris Newman]

I called it The Ant and Dec Breakfast Show in FF's Guardian Blog and Roger Wright's latest Radio 3 Blog. The more descriptions that are accurate the better I am sure.

[Nick Armstrong]

Sparafucile on the Starkey thread dubbed Breakfast thus. Maybe if we all used this new name for the programme the BBC spies who keep an eye cocked on this Forum might get the message.

3beebies is now the official title of the 'show' in these parts

[french frank]

3beebies is now the official title of the 'show' in these parts

One or two of the journalists seemed to think that Radio 2.5 was an 'Ouch' description. It seems they ain't heard nothing yet

[Norfolk Born]

I still maintain that 'Dim Sum' neatly describes Radio 3's offerings between 0630 and 1200 hours.

[Nick Armstrong]

I still maintain that 'Dim Sum' neatly describes Radio 3's offerings between 0630 and 1200 hours.

Ofca I have to disagree, because I adore dim sum and can't get enough of it once I start

[salymap]

Who is going to write a little song to introduce the programme under that name?

We are the Beebies 3, unhappy girls and boys,
We miss our BBC, Breakfast now annoys.

I'm sure you can all do better.

[marvin]

What a condescending load of crap this early morning programme is. Even its predecessor wasn't all that much better. I remember and yearn for the days back in the '80s when we had 'proper' music in the entirety and not snatches or miniature pieces a la Cfm.

[amateur51]

Ofca I have to disagree, because I adore dim sum and can't get enough of it once I start

Oh yes Caliban, totally agree - fabulous stuff if you can find a good place

[amateur51]

Who is going to write a little song to introduce the programme under that name?

We are the Beebies 3, unhappy girls and boys,
We miss our BBC, Breakfast now annoys.

I'm sure you can all do better.

Braaaaava salymap, the Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch of FoR3!

[Chris Newman]

Braaaaava salymap, the Jackie Trent & Tony Hatch of FoR3!

Hear! Hear! Braaaaaaavaaaaa!!!

[ardcarp]

Real 3beebies this morning. Roger Quliter's Children's Overture was not only played but done as a local-radio-style dedication.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ahem ...if one is going to listen to this cutesy enema in the morning why not listen to the real master at work ... loadsa Soul and C&W classics, a real sense of humour, and a puncturing wit .... quite blissful really ... oh yeah music ... on me iTunes innit

[Norfolk Born]

Ofca I have to disagree, because I adore dim sum and can't get enough of it once I start

My reference to 'Dim Sum' was meant to be taken more as a play on words, implying that R3's morning output doesn't make much sense when you add it all up...

[ardcarp]

Just to show I am a fair-minded sort of chap, I'd just mention that I heard a whiff of Byrd consort music on Essential Classics (Classics Lite?) and, a little later on, the Sanctus and Benedictus from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. I wonder if that had anything to do with Starkey's input to the programme? Missed the great mind himself, unfortunately.