How about bringing in Edward Stourton to raise the tone? Also give Ivan Hewett a daytime programme. He is one of the younger ones who doesn't sound crass.
3beebies aka Breakfast
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI remember being a devotee of Humphrey Carpenter's irreverent and quirky presentation, setting my alarm not to miss him. I think he didn't last long perhaps he was too irreverent about the suits.
A classic episode was when he read an extract from (I think) Ngaio Marsh's Overture to Death. Timed to the second just at the moment that the pistol fired Rachmaninov's Prelude in C# minor chimed in ...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 Lateralthinking1 View PostI don't like the references to Twitter. In fact, I probably hate Twitter more than any invention of the past 25 years. It has knocked the hadron collider into second place.
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Just to make sure I wasn't missing any good music, I have just switched from the recording of my beloved TTN and, lo-and-behold, what was being played - The Four Seasons - there really is no imagination left in the brains of the morning producers!
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Originally posted by mercia View Postfor some people (you may find it hard to believe) this is the first time they've heard the Four Seasons[....]
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TTtheB
THUMBS DOWN to the new morning schedule!
I am very proud of myself, as I just managed to listen to A WHOLE 30 MINUTES of 3Beebies before i had to turn it off in irritation. Is this a record?
I fear that the controller's response would be that this is precisely how long their research shows that most people are able to listen in the morning and that therefore the new programme, format, content, and style are all perfectly tailored to listeners' needs. Well, they're not.
Listening in the morning now is rather like being tortured by Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition: "poke her with the soft cushions!!!!". Two-minute bursts of tickling, interrupted only by inane "interaction" and tie-ins with other programmes i won't want to listen to.
Congratulations on destroying a much-loved and unique part of the BBC.
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naff innit ..... i am reminded of Kenny Everett's Ms Cupid Stunt summat to do with taste innitAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.
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Originally posted by mercia View Postwhere did we know-it-alls hear our first Four Seasons? .............................. on Radio 3?
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I think this ‘same old…’ is a tricky argument. As mercia says, there are always some people to whom The Four Seasons or Hungarian Dances are new. It wasn’t that very long ago, I was one of those listeners and I did enjoy hearing the music I knew. I have no problems either about Breakfast not being a ‘serious’ listening programme. As it happens, I do sit by the radio in the morning but not to concentrate on listening to the music played. I’d stop what I am doing when I hear something interesting.
I finally gave up listening to Breakfast because there were just too many ‘other’ items in the programme. At times I could almost see people waiting for the music to end so that they may hear the presenter read out the texts they’d just sent in. Yes, I am being over-imaginative, but there you are. I have joined the TTN /TTM camp and listen to the music. I believe that this is what Radio3 is for.
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Originally posted by mercia View Postjust for clarification, does one swich off because one doesn't like the Lark or because one doesn't like PT?
In the case of the presenter, once you get to the point of suggesting that your favourite presenter should be given the slot, you've lost the argument because your favourite presenter is someone else's bête noire. It's the style that matters, not the individual: unobtrusive presentation focused on accurate information seems to be what people here want. (No wonder people think the TTN presenters are good!)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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