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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22114

    I enjoyed the Debussy-Beamish movement from La Mer but wish Suzy had played the whole work. What an annoying format.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30241

      Originally posted by LMcD View Post
      I think it's meant to be 'accessible', but ends up sounding patronising.
      "If you like classical music, you'll love this."
      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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      • oddoneout
        Full Member
        • Nov 2015
        • 9142

        The Time Traveller slot was to do with Christmas gifts in 1817, and mentioned pictures of Belvoir Castle, pronounced 'Bellvwahr'(ie french style). I had always understood it to be 'Beever', or is that only as in Vale of....?

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12787

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          ... yes, that grated. It's "beever" castle.




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          • Zucchini
            Guest
            • Nov 2010
            • 917

            ... and every barmaid knows what you mean when you order a "beever" soft drink.
            Last edited by Zucchini; 19-12-17, 20:54.

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 20570

              Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
              I didn't appreciate being told by Suzy (in her worst hectoring tone) that, if Blessed Brian didn't make me smile, I was a miserable grouch or some such.
              Perhaps more of a bully than a hectorer. She has form.

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              • LMcD
                Full Member
                • Sep 2017
                • 8405

                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                "If you like classical music, you'll love this."
                'Yes ma'am, certainly ma'am'.
                She reminds me more than a little of the fearsome schoolteacher in 'The Singing Detective'.

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Originally posted by LMcD View Post
                  'Yes ma'am, certainly ma'am'.
                  She reminds me more than a little of the fearsome schoolteacher in 'The Singing Detective'.
                  Pah! SK is feeble - Janet Henfrey was genuinely scary! (In that role, a reprise from the earlier Stand Up, Nigel Barton! - I once had lunch with her [and several others] at a Brecht conference in the early '90s: she's lovely!)
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • BBMmk2
                    Late Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20908

                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Pah! SK is feeble - Janet Henfrey was genuinely scary! (In that role, a reprise from the earlier Stand Up, Nigel Barton! - I once had lunch with her [and several others] at a Brecht conference in the early '90s: she's lovely!)
                    But she likes brass and concert bands!
                    Don’t cry for me
                    I go where music was born

                    J S Bach 1685-1750

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                      But she likes brass and concert bands!
                      Nobody's perfect.

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                      • BBMmk2
                        Late Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20908

                        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                        Nobody's perfect.
                        Thank you Bryn! Merry Christmas!
                        Don’t cry for me
                        I go where music was born

                        J S Bach 1685-1750

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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20570

                          SK's arrogant assumptions are very much like those of the writer of Radio 3's Facebook starters. Childish and patronising.

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12787

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                            ... tho' I prefer arrogance to chumminess.


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                            • french frank
                              Administrator/Moderator
                              • Feb 2007
                              • 30241

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              ... tho' I prefer arrogance to chumminess.
                              On the whole I prefer the opposite, on the grounds that some presenters one warms to naturally and others one doesn't; so sometimes chumminess is less grating. Arrogance is universally unattractive.
                              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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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25193

                                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                                On the whole I prefer the opposite, on the grounds that some presenters one warms to naturally and others one doesn't; so sometimes chumminess is less grating. Arrogance is universally unattractive.

                                Well quite.
                                The world isnt really in need of more arrogance, is it?
                                R3 chumminess is fine, if it is of the well informed kind.
                                Like RC , in fact.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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