So what's wrong with Radio 3 Breakfast?

[antongould]

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!

[Frances_iom]

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 ?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

......... the person formerly known as Squealer

[antongould]

ever thought that R4 might suit you better ?

Have they started playing music?

[french frank]

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.

[cloughie]

......... mission accomplished, dumbed down even more than they thought possible

Hey Guv, give us a full symphony

[Domeyhead]

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.

[Don Petter]

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.

[cloughie]

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?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have they started playing music?

A question frequently asked by listeners to Breakfast.

[cloughie]

Have they started playing music?

No John Humphrys just gets his interviewees to face it!

[Domeyhead]

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.

[Old Grumpy]

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

No more than yesterday's was a home berth!

[doversoul1]

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)

[Norfolk Born]

highlights from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

....performed by some Old Spice Girls?