Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights
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So what's wrong with Radio 3 Breakfast?
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Norfolk Born
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights;138613[...I was a permanent listener to R3, switching on at 7.30 and leaving it on throughout the day[...]R3 has virtually nothing to say to me now.
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The last time someone was held up as the ideal Radio 3 presenter, an all to oft repeated meme in certain quarters (though thankfully this was quite a few months ago), I made a point of listening to said individual's presentation and, perversely, quite enjoyed it in a 'so bad it's good' way. Though no stumbles nor, to the best of my limited knowledge, mistakes were made, so 'bad' is unfair, only one single adjective was used throughout the programme and that was in the trail encouraging us to listen to the following week's programme.
It was a little like listening to the speaking clock.
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Panjandrum
Originally posted by Word View PostThe last time someone was held up as the ideal Radio 3 presenter, an all to oft repeated meme in certain quarters (though thankfully this was quite a few months ago), I made a point of listening to said individual's presentation and, perversely, quite enjoyed it in a 'so bad it's good' way. Though no stumbles nor, to the best of my limited knowledge, mistakes were made, so 'bad' is unfair, only one single adjective was used throughout the programme and that was in the trail encouraging us to listen to the following week's programme.
It was a little like listening to the speaking clock.
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Originally posted by Word View PostIn my recent experience Afternoon on 3 comments tend to be limited to how the performance was received by the audience.
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this mornings "Breakfast" was interesting. international womens day, so everything was written by or performed by women.
Hate to criticise, but WHAT a wasted opportunity. SMP ended by apologising for missing out a large number of composers, , some of whom she named.
Given that its not really a problem getting to hear women performers, it would have been great to have programme of works written by women . a shame really.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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I just catch the beginning of "breakfast" before I arrive at work. Every morning the same thing, word for word: "on ninety to nintety three ef em, online, on digital, you're listening to breakfast on radio three with me sara mohr pietsch. at just after eight thirty we'll have another half wit calling in to tell us about his cat's favourite tune..." (O.K I made up the last bit).
Hasn't she even got enough intelligence to say the same things in a different order?! At least the other fellow doesn't go through exactly the same thing word for word every day.
</rant>I have a medical condition- I am fool intolerant.
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Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post"on ninety to nintety three ef em, online, on digital, you're listening to breakfast on radio three with me sara mohr pietsch[...]
I've begun to notice, in my rare half hours tolerating the ghastly Breakfast 'Show', that works and/or performers are frequently - always? - chosen in order to provide the material for a trail-link. E.g. just now, Imogen Cooper playing Schubert: '...and Imogen Cooper is part of our Schubertfest starting here on Radio Three etc etc'.
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Panjandrum
Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostI've begun to notice... that works and/or performers are frequently - always? - chosen in order to provide the material for a trail-link. E.g. just now, Imogen Cooper playing Schubert: '...and Imogen Cooper is part of our Schubertfest starting here on Radio Three etc etc'.
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Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostWell, speaking personally...
I was a permanent listener to R3, switching on at 7.30 and leaving it on throughout the day or if travelling picking up the programmes on the car radio. Gradually over the last 2 years I have become so bored by the incessant repeats and unnatural chuminess of the presenters that I found that tuning away from 91.3 was not the end of the world as I thought it might have been. R4 has some very interesting programmes - there was one on the Kinder Scout trespass last week which was fascinating - and bit by bit I have got out of the habit of tuning to R3. And, as market researchers will tell you, once a listener/viewer gets out of the habit and finds the programme(s) uninteresting then it is all downhill from thereon. I had gone back to R3 for 12 noon onwards but then Katie Dereham steps in with her vocal acrobatics on non-British names and her ever-gushing "wonderfuls" that I began to feel that none of this is aimed at me any more.
So, the choice is now silence (which is quite nice to be honest) or the CD collection to which I add on a weekly basis - spurred on by other sources (many from these boards).
The problem for me with these playlist programmes which have become the norm almost the world over, presumably since the advent of the internet, is that there's no room for the little gems that used to appear when there was an unexpected gap between scheduled programmes. It all feels so mechanical now. To a degree, Radio 4 does still have room for the 'little gems' as there are often 15-minute slots in which they broadcast readings or short documentaries.
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Originally posted by James Wonnacott View Post<rant>
Every morning the same thing, word for word: "on ninety to nintety three ef em, online, on digital</rant>
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Originally posted by hmvman View PostIf I'm at home in the mornings, I've recently taken to listening to WDR3 (streamed at 256 kbps via iTunes).
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