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  • kernelbogey
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5735

    DIDO’S LAMENT ON YOUR CALL AT 8.30

    Sara M-P: And now Your Call, and on the line from Athens is Dido. Kalimera, Dido!

    Dido: Good morning, Sara. I’m sorry, this is no time for jokes.

    SMP: I’m sorry. I realise you lost your husband recently.

    D: Yes, very sad. He disappeared.

    SMP: I believe he was last seen in Piraeus?

    D: Yes, yes. He’s been gone for a long time now.

    SMP: And you’ve been searching for him?

    D: Yes, I’m thinking maybe he went back to Turkey... I might have to go there to look for him.

    SMP: It’s been a difficult and sad time for you.

    D: Yes, and of course we have the worry about the economic situation and the Euro as well.

    SMP: And I believe this piece of music is something that helps you with this...?

    (to be continued )

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26516



      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30213

        Just for a moment there ...

        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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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
          DIDO’S LAMENT ON YOUR CALL AT 8.30

          Sara M-P: And now Your Call, and on the line from Athens is Dido. Kalimera, Dido!

          Dido: Good morning, Sara. I’m sorry, this is no time for jokes.

          SMP: I’m sorry. I realise you lost your husband recently.

          D: Yes, very sad. He disappeared.

          SMP: I believe he was last seen in Piraeus?

          D: Yes, yes. He’s been gone for a long time now.

          SMP: And you’ve been searching for him?

          D: Yes, I’m thinking maybe he went back to Turkey... I might have to go there to look for him.

          SMP: It’s been a difficult and sad time for you.

          D: Yes, and of course we have the worry about the economic situation and the Euro as well.

          SMP: And I believe this piece of music is something that helps you with this...?

          (to be continued )

          I think you should email that in to the Breakfast team.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30213

            Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
            SMP: And I believe this piece of music is something that helps you with this...?
            It rather amused me in the 'Step into our World' trails, that this aria was chosen for the tired, stressed businessman ...

            I'm not sure how retweeting works, but R3 have just retweeted: "First we get Star Wars theme & now Harry Potter. Sometimes I wonder if R3 has morphed into ClassicFM! :-(."

            Film music is film music, but really! there's a lot more around than John Williams's stuff for latterday blockbusters. Still, I daresay they know what they're doing
            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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            • kernelbogey
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 5735

              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
              I think you should email that in to the Breakfast team.
              I'm hoping Graeme might respond on these boards....

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              • Norfolk Born

                Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                DIDO’S LAMENT ON YOUR CALL AT 8.30

                Sara M-P: And now Your Call, and on the line from Athens is Dido. Kalimera, Dido!

                Dido: Good morning, Sara. I’m sorry, this is no time for jokes.

                SMP: I’m sorry. I realise you lost your husband recently.

                D: Yes, very sad. He disappeared.

                SMP: I believe he was last seen in Piraeus?

                D: Yes, yes. He’s been gone for a long time now.

                SMP: And you’ve been searching for him?

                D: Yes, I’m thinking maybe he went back to Turkey... I might have to go there to look for him.

                SMP: It’s been a difficult and sad time for you.

                D: Yes, and of course we have the worry about the economic situation and the Euro as well.

                SMP: And I believe this piece of music is something that helps you with this...?

                (to be continued )
                Is somebody trying to make a dra(ch)ma out of a crisis?

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                • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 9173

                  i felt for the chap having had a similar problem with the officiating parasites at my own mother's funeral ... i would not want to mock the person who called here, it was a heartfelt genuine and moving ..... that is why it shut SMP up and she just played it ....
                  According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                  • antongould
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8775

                    Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                    i felt for the chap having had a similar problem with the officiating parasites at my own mother's funeral ... i would not want to mock the person who called here, it was a heartfelt genuine and moving ..... that is why it shut SMP up and she just played it ....
                    It was indeed and I thought SMP handled it well as she/her producer did when the final CD exploded!

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26516

                      Originally posted by french frank View Post
                      Just for a moment there ...

                      Me too! Ms Less-Nectarine's tone of voice is caught perfectly...
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26516

                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        I'm not sure how retweeting works, but R3 have just retweeted: "First we get Star Wars theme & now Harry Potter. Sometimes I wonder if R3 has morphed into ClassicFM! :-(."

                        W-w-w-w-w-whaaaat???? Someone at R3 said that??!
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30213

                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          W-w-w-w-w-whaaaat???? Someone at R3 said that??!
                          No It was someone else's tweet - and R3 retweeted it. I just don't know if tweets get retweeted automatically if they mention R3 - for good or ill. Or whether someone at R3 reweeted the original tweet.

                          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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                          • Albion

                            What a pity that the CD which exploded this morning c.8.45 was a rare recording of the little-known Kaiser Waltz by Richard Strauss.

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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30213

                              Having read what was on Facebook I'm actually very disturbed by this Your Call item:

                              "Maggie Hinder Geoff - sounds worth missing - which I did. Was this the 'your call' spot? I'm deliberately not telling them aobut the time I bunked off school to get home for CE - and was rewarded by my first hearing of the Allegri. Heady stuff!
                              about an hour ago
                              Geoff Pearson Your Call indeed. The poor man wanted Dido's Lament at his mother's funeral and the priest cut it off before the vital last line. He said he almost shouted at at the ceremony. He was on the verge of tears.
                              about an hour ago
                              Gavin Mist That sounds terrible, Geoff and I'm glad I didn't hear it (I deliberately avoid YC anyway). I wonder what compels people to ring in to a radio station to share this kind of thing. Beyond me, I'm afraid.
                              30 minutes ago · 1
                              Paul Sheppard Had to turn the radio off during the phone call. I feel for the poor chap but Radio 3 is not the place for this sort of programme imho.
                              This morning's Break'fess was an all time low point for the station"


                              This is absolutely not because one is bereft of human compassion for people who have suffered, or are grieving. It's the sheer cynical exploitation (in my view) à la Oprah Winfrey of sharing people's most intimate feelings with what amount to the audio equivalent of voyeurs. In my view.
                              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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                              • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                                Late member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 9173

                                This is absolutely not because one is bereft of human compassion for people who have suffered, or are grieving. It's the sheer cynical exploitation (in my view) à la Oprah Winfrey of sharing people's most intimate feelings with what amount to the audio equivalent of voyeurs. In my view.
                                quite
                                According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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