3beebies aka Breakfast

[Richard Tarleton]

RC currently playing Alborado del Gracioso, I think he has a bit of an obsession with this piece

It's just so that he can practise his Spanish pronunciation

[french frank]

whilst Spiegel im Spiegel was playing this morning

Last week there were two different versions of this in the Classical Artists Top 40. Only one this week (at no 33, between The Best of Karl Jenkins and Tango). Can't remember which version has dropped out. The Best of Arvo Pärt has been in the classical compilation chart for 213 weeks.

[mercia]

many thanks for all that information
I think I'm out of kilter with what's best / most popular "these days"

[antongould]

The Best of Arvo Pärt has been in the classical compilation chart for 213 weeks.

Oh dear ff as I am playing AA I am listening to Part's Te Deum does that make me an even worse person!?

[mercia]

I didn't want to start an argument

[french frank]

Oh dear ff as I am playing AA I am listening to Part's Te Deum does that make me an even worse person!?

No. People's choice in music isn't any reflection on them as human beings, is it? For my own sake, I hope not

[antongould]

I feel ff and I partake in intelligent debate - she may wish to argue.

[mercia]

well well well, I never knew that that quirky little tune that used to introduce the "Alfred Hitchcock presents ......... " series on TV was by Gounod, Funeral March of a Marionette. Also on Breakfast this morning an unknown (to me) piece by Walton called I think "Granada" which Petroc seemed to connect in someway to Granada Television, but I didn't catch the details.

[Suffolkcoastal]

The Gounod has featured a few times of Breakfast Mercia, presumably because of its 'Hitchcock associations'. The Walton isn't heard very often. It was indeed composed for Granada TV in 1961, orginally a Prelude, Call signs and End Music.

[mercia]

many thanks SC

[greenilex]

Have just read all the way through this thread - quite an achievement in itself.

I still think there is room commercially and otherwise for a whole radio station made up of TTN and not much else. Then when I feel sickened by some aspect of 3beebies I'll be able to switch easily.

I'd even be willing to subscribe...

[kernelbogey]

Have just read all the way through this thread - quite an achievement in itself.

I still think there is room commercially and otherwise for a whole radio station made up of TTN and not much else. Then when I feel sickened by some aspect of 3beebies I'll be able to switch easily.

I'd even be willing to subscribe...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

just wanted to share the yuk experience of PT introducing the Lark this morning, never hit the OFF SWITCH faster ....

[aeolium]

You keep hitting that OFF switch in the morning, Calum, but my question is: why do you hit the ON switch knowing what is likely to come? Triumph of hope over experience?

[kernelbogey]

From 1999 to 2004 there was a different direction: the range of music was widened, presumably with the aim of attracting audiences to those different kinds of music. Then the audience began to fall off quite seriously so they changed tack.

just wanted to share the yuk experience of PT introducing the Lark this morning, never hit the OFF SWITCH faster ....

I believe that it was in the period before that referred to above by ff - mid nineties? - that PT first appeared on R3 on whatever the equivalent of Breakfast was. I stopped listening to that early morning show on R3 for several years as a result.

Have I remembered correctly that it was at the end of that period that Andrew MacGregor began introducing that show? For me he set the gold standard for that time of the day - in content as well as voice.

I agree with Calum - I find PT as Breakfast presenter harder and harder to stomach and I listen less and less.