Breakfast hijacked by Private Eye?

[vinteuil]

Yes, the "shed" pastiches tweetings have been good - even better than the "kippers are what is best for breakfast" tweets that they treated us to the other day.

When we started our laments, some Boarders were proposing "what do I do when I'm sitting on the lavatory" as an interesting subject for a Breakfast tweetathon - I imagine this we will be getting very soon now...

[gurnemanz]

I well remember the eminent musicologist, Hans Killer, was a regular columnist for Private Eye years ago, with his catchphrase "not since Pfitzner.."

[MickyD]

I tried "Breakfast" once again the other day to see if by any chance it might have improved. It was the day of the kipper debate, so my immediate conclusion was that it had, in fact, got even worse. I think certain souls should be locked in to that shed and the key be thrown away.

[Serial_Apologist]

When we started our laments, some Boarders were proposing "what do I do when I'm sitting on the lavatory" as an interesting subject for a Breakfast tweetathon - I imagine this we will be getting very soon now...

My reply to that would be, "Wiping the imaginary smile off RW's face"

[underthecountertenor]

Oddly enough, I find it quite bearable when Petroc Trelawny is presenting: despite his flirtation with Classic FM in the past he seems better able to resist the descent into listener-led inanity. Martin Handley, at the weekends, is well-nigh impeccable, but his weekends off seem to be becoming more frequent, and I find his current alternate, Clemency Burton-Hill, unbearably gushing.

[Frances_iom]

It's sad to see the dying days of a once great station - still sheds are usually associated with males in their final doddering days, so possibly among the many inanities of the Breakfast team there is a message of deeper significance to our all powerful Controller.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's sad to see the dying days of a once great station - still sheds are usually associated with males in their final doddering days, so possibly among the many inanities of the Breakfast team there is a message of deeper significance to our all powerful Controller.

Or, if as old whatsis name used to say on Gardener's World, "The answer lies in the soil", the sooner the better.

[vinteuil]

Or, if as old whatsis name used to say on Gardener's World, "The answer lies in the soil", the sooner the better.

... this was, I think Kenneth Williams as 'Arthur Fallowfield' in "Beyond Our Ken".

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

keep out of my shed or you will be pushing up the onions!

[cloughie]

not in my shed! only chaps who watch the football results can go in there!

Yes 101's the only place for that lot!

[marypats]

Yes. Petroc has become more acceptable to me now - fewer words, less repitition of those words. Not so excitable, perhaps? And then dear Martin Handley, the voice who can talk to grown-ups even while playing the old warhorses. I switched Clemency off twice this Easter weekend. I won't be listening again at the weekend until Martin returns.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes. Petroc has become more acceptable to me now - fewer words, less repitition of those words. Not so excitable, perhaps? And then dear Martin Handley, the voice who can talk to grown-ups even while playing the old warhorses. I switched Clemency off twice this Easter weekend. I won't be listening again at the weekend until Martin returns.

Always good to be able to agree with a first post! Welcome marypats

Clemency B-H's style is truly awful; PT better (although just as bad if unleashed on one of those ****** ******* trailers ) ... but still saddled with that godawful breakfast format

Mr Handley is top notch

[tijran]

Garden Sheds.

Having endured as much as I can, I have to say that after this morning, I shall no longer be able to listen to 'Breakfast' and, in particular, the egregious Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Being forced daily to go through the newspaper headlines was, I thought, bad enough but I have no words to express the horrors of this morning. Another (morning) listener lost. And how long, I wonder, before the infection spreads to the rest of the schedule?

[mercia]

how long before threads about Breakfast totally engulf this forum?

[Nick Armstrong]

how long before threads about Breakfast totally engulf this forum?

This thread and this http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...by-Private-Eye could usefully be combined, it's true.


[Edit: Threads merged - ff]