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  • antongould
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8780

    #61
    As I feebly try to correct with the morning world I personally find the headlines "useful" and at 60 seconds on the hour and 30 seconds on the quarter I do not feel vast chunks of my life have been wasted!

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    • Frances_iom
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 2411

      #62
      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      As I feebly try to correct with the morning world I personally find the headlines "useful" and at 60 seconds on the hour and 30 seconds on the quarter I do not feel vast chunks of my life have been wasted!
      ever thought that R4 might suit you better ?

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

        #63


        ......... the person formerly known as Squealer
        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
          • 8780

          #64
          Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
          ever thought that R4 might suit you better ?
          Have they started playing music?

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30254

            #65
            Originally posted by mercia View Post
            common sense tells me that RW meant the requests had come over time, rather than all at once
            The key point was 'in significant numbers'. "Over the past ten years 20/40/60/80 people have spontaneously written in to say that they would like a short news bulletin on the half hour" says nothing about what the other three quarters of a million listeners prefer.

            anton: I appreciate that some people do indeed welcome regular repetition/updates on the news, especially if that's the kind of radio they've been used to. But for people who tune in to hear music, the interventions, including other comments, trails, time-checks &c, become the purpose of the programme - with the music fitted in round it. If you just want music (plus the occasional, on the hour, bulletin), such a 'breakfast show' isn't worth listening to and the BBC is no longer providing early morning music - just early morning breakfast shows, of varying kinds.
            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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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22115

              #66
              Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post


              ......... mission accomplished, dumbed down even more than they thought possible
              Hey Guv, give us a full symphony

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              • Domeyhead

                #67
                Originally posted by antongould View Post
                As I feebly try to correct with the morning worIld I personally find the headlines "useful" and at 60 seconds on the hour and 30 seconds on the quarter I do not feel vast chunks of my life have been wasted!
                I find the short bulletins irritating because I listen to "serious" music to escape from the immediacy and stress of the world. I have made a conscious decision to escape from the politically obsessed media for a while and the BBC should respect my choice and stop pestering me with it. If and when I need to hear the news I know where to go to find it. The bulletins are like the world - or rather a news journalist tapping me on the forehead every 15 minutes reminding me over and over again of what the BBC news department think I need to know.
                I also find the whole concept of these soundbite "factoids" irritating - Chris Morris foresaw and satirised this pointless obsession with "news" in The Day today. What am I supposed to do with this tiny amount of information except stress over it? They are nothing more than editorially selected "fact commercials" . The whole concept of this immediate delivery of news is another BBC conceit that I can do without.

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                • Don Petter

                  #68
                  Very well said, Dh.

                  I resent being told what 'news' is important - it may well not be important or of interest to me. That is why I never watch news on TV, with its doom laden music and false gravitas, or listen to it on the radio. I much prefer to read a newspaper, where I can skip and select as it suits me. If I do need instant information I can look at the BBC site on line, and again be as selective as I wish.

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22115

                    #69
                    Originally posted by french frank View Post
                    If you just want music (plus the occasional, on the hour, bulletin), such a 'breakfast show' isn't worth listening to and the BBC is no longer providing early morning music - just early morning breakfast shows, of varying kinds.
                    And you can get what we're subjected to in similar measure on CFM, so Mr 'Mission accomplished, dumbed down even more than they thought possible' Wright, get your act together and bring back the music. You breakfast joke has gone too far! As I have just paid out GBP145.50 to receive BBC broadcasts I want a better deal on Mornings on 3!

                    As an aside did anyone think this morning's 'Your call' was a stitch-up?

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #70
                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      Have they started playing music?
                      A question frequently asked by listeners to Breakfast.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22115

                        #71
                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        Have they started playing music?
                        No John Humphrys just gets his interviewees to face it!

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                        • Domeyhead

                          #72
                          Very droll Cloughie! Though it was a relief to hear someone requesting something that isn't played on every other day of the year anyway. When someone last week called in and requested the Dambusters March I nearly completed a double whammy by throwing the radio at the television.

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                          • Old Grumpy
                            Full Member
                            • Jan 2011
                            • 3601

                            #73
                            Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                            As an aside did anyone think this morning's 'Your call' was a stitch-up?



                            No more than yesterday's was a home berth!
                            Last edited by Old Grumpy; 02-03-12, 12:39. Reason: Apostrophic mistake

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                            • doversoul1
                              Ex Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 7132

                              #74
                              RW’s Radio3 on top form

                              Today, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3
                              performances of John Williams' Olympic Fanfare, Vangelis's world-famous theme from Chariots of Fire, Ravel's Bolero, highlights from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

                              135minutes of this? (we haven't been told)

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                              • Norfolk Born

                                #75
                                Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                                highlights from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
                                ....performed by some Old Spice Girls?

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