On a break

[Guest]

To the car and homeward bound. Click "on", then press "3" and await Mr Rafferty's unctuous tones. There is music and then the voice of a woman describing how to make mayonnaise. What is this? Where is its coming from? Are there two stations on the same channel? Some more music and then a different woman tells us that she has worked out what her marriage is really all about. A ha, Wallace works this one out. We are on a break. The schedules have changed for the mid-winter holiday and what a delight it is. Heading home with new companions - Helena Bonham Carter and Hugh Bonneville. My relationship with Mr Rafferty was getting rather stale and to be seeing new people again is most refreshing. I do hope Mr Rafferty feels the same way.

Perhaps I could suggest to my morning companions that we should also take a break, but perhaps that relationship is already dead in the water and even a break could not save it.

[Frances_iom]

Perhaps I could suggest to my morning companions that we should also take a break, but perhaps that relationship is already dead in the water and even a break could not save it.

please text your agreement (such texts will cost 10 ...) - all ayes will of course be ignored and the noe from Rodger has it

[arancie33]

Very noticeable that there have been no comments re Breakfast or EC for ages. The break would seem to be complete - no doubt the Beeb will assume therefore that we're all fantastically pleased to be able to listen to blather and witter and play silly parlour games every morning. Wrong!

[Bax-of-Delights]

The R3 Facebook page now no longer puffs the Breakfast programme and the entry for the In Tune programme of last week highlighted David Bowie/Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy. It got heavily slated and caused a bit of a ruck with one young Cambridge undergraduate coming out of nowhere to denounce those who criticised R3's programming as "old whingeing cretins". Which was nice. One perceptive poster gave the opinion that we shouldn't really be shocked by this kind of language or attitude as this was obviously the audience that R3 was targetting now.

But strangely hardly anyone posts on the R3 Facebook page - apart from the old cretins of course. Which was possibly not the kind of "friends" that R3 wanted on Facebook.

Anyway, having culled the R3 messageboard there now seems to be a lot more time (and money) being "resourced" for the Facebook page.

[Frances_iom]

Does anyone listen any more? - the adverts can be heard ad nuseam at other times and there is little else other than DJs blathering on nd playing the latest variant on a parlour game dreamt up that morning by their bored producer.

[Dave2002]

Does anyone listen any more? - the adverts can be heard ad nuseam at other times and there is little else other than DJs blathering on nd playing the latest variant on a parlour game dreamt up that morning by their bored producer.

I crashed into either Breakfast (I think it was that one) or the later programme the other day. Darn me - The Lark Ascending YET AGAIN. I like the piece, but seems that some pieces are on just about every day.

There are some quite interesting pieces being played in Breakfast, but the way the old stalwarts are being treated is abysmal. I still await the day (not long now I fear) when we'll get part of a movement - carefully trimmed down (or perhaps not so carefully) and maybe even voice-overs.

Also, the "puzzles" later in the morning where we are asked to identify artists are amusing, but how stupid do they think we have to be. (1) Is it A/B/C? (2) Is it C? No - it's not that one? (1 again) Is it A/B/C? ..... Why would anyone waste money texting in an answer - unless of course they're on one of those "we'll offer you more 'free' texts than you could ever send in a month each month" deals.

[Suffolkcoastal]

The R3 Facebook page now no longer puffs the Breakfast programme and the entry for the In Tune programme of last week highlighted David Bowie/Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy. It got heavily slated and caused a bit of a ruck with one young Cambridge undergraduate coming out of nowhere to denounce those who criticised R3's programming as "old whingeing cretins". Which was nice. One perceptive poster gave the opinion that we shouldn't really be shocked by this kind of language or attitude as this was obviously the audience that R3 was targetting now.

But strangely hardly anyone posts on the R3 Facebook page - apart from the old cretins of course. Which was possibly not the kind of "friends" that R3 wanted on Facebook.

Anyway, having culled the R3 messageboard there now seems to be a lot more time (and money) being "resourced" for the Facebook page.

I noticed that too BoD. I wonder if he was a relation of someone on the R3 team and he's certainly a poor advert for undergraduate students. Their facebook moderator is getting quite techy as well, everytime a few people criticize. I expect it won't be long before Roger 'The Dear Leader' pulls the plug on the facebook site as well.

Looking at the still not updated EC playlists I see this weeks 'celebrity' guest has selected Vltava and Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, think this just about sums EC up.

[salymap]

Does anyone else feel that they will SCREAM if they read or hear the word Essential ever again?

[mangerton]

Does anyone else feel that they will SCREAM if they read or hear the word Essential ever again?

As my Latin teacher used to say, "It's absolutely essential to learn the genitive singular!"

But you are quite right, saly. The only question is, is the use of the word "iconic" even more annoying?

[salymap]

As my Latin teacher used to say, "It's absolutely essential to learn the genitive singular!"

But you are quite right, saly. The only question is, is the use of the word "iconic" even more annoying?

Too late to try to educate me mangerton. Thanks to ill health as a child and the Blitz, I had very little formal education. Somehow I stayed in work,though, and actually enjoyed myself. Best wishes

[mercia]

Does anyone else feel that they will SCREAM if they read or hear the word Essential ever again?

essentially, yes

I must away and do some essential shopping

[James Wonnacott]

The "break" has meant that I'm getting up a little later and so if I turn on the radio when having breakfast, instead of "Through the night" I get "breakfast".
When I stopped listening to the programme (about 2 years ago) I didn't believe it could get any worse. How wrong I was. Surely there aren't really enough dimwits amongst classical music lovers to provide one every day who wants to 'phone in and tell treat everyone to some inane drivel about why they like a certain piece?
I think the the BBC must be paying people to do it.

[Frances_iom]

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I think the the BBC must be paying people to do it.

no the paid staff are too busy with the sycophantic emails to their boss otherwise how else does he announce that he has had more in support when any question his vadalisation - however welcome to the world of vox-pop - it's too easy to sneer but I'm afraid the older regular listeners of R3 are NOT required any longer - you are seeing the strongly encouraged migration of R2 listeners so that that channel can move more into younger market (I presume ready for a privatisation)