Breakfast hijacked by Private Eye?

[eighthobstruction]

Particularly humourous episode of Ed Reardon's week on R4 tonight ....sub plot being parody of Breakfast....

[vinteuil]

Particularly humourous episode of Ed Reardon's week on R4 tonight ....sub plot being parody of Breakfast....

.... yes, wasn't it good?


Answer to the quiz - " - and the Wolf".
" And that was Zadok the Priest in the capable hands of the Michael Sammes singers"...
"... take it away, Wolfgang!"

[Crowcatcher]

Blast!
You beat me to it.
I phoned my Ed Reardon loving daughter immediately afterwards and she couldn't stop laughing/crying.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

zeitgeist

[french frank]

zeitgeist

Not even an original idea, then. Just a spin-off from an advertising campaign for wood preservative. Next tweet-in: What do you do with your old Pepsi-Cola bottles?

[Ferretfancy]

Was I imagining it, or did we get a short burst of Grieg, including a reference to his composing shed at Troldhaugen, where you can still peer in and see his raincoat hanging on a peg ?
Just thought I'd ask.

[underthecountertenor]

Yes, Ferretfancy, I rather think we did. RogW will no doubt now tell us that this justified the whole exercise, in that we were thereby educated. I will shed no tears on his departure. [Sorry]

[Frances_iom]

Next tweet-in: What do you do with your old Pepsi-Cola bottles?

send them back to BH and ask the one-time marketing guy now 'working' there for the money back.

[Ferretfancy]

I'm not on Twitter, but I wonder, could we bombard them with tweets, all with an agreed text and an agreed time, to flood the system? Those who are responding to their nonsense need to be elbowed aside.

[amateur51]

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

such a naughty boy, S_A!

[hmvman]

Didn't they play any of Elgar's 'shed music'?

I gave up on 'Breakfast' ages ago.

[hackneyvi]

I put the Breakfast programme on every morning now. I don't always care for the txtweet stuff but I find Sara quite inoffensive. She doesn't gabble and between washing, stretching, cleaning my teeth, breakfasting, I often find myself pleased by the music. I have to say the unexpected modernist pieces are always a surprise and treat.

How have people felt listening to things like the Schubert week when evidently intelligent, sometimes unexpectedly elderly, folk have texted and emailed their enthusiasm and pleasure, even memories of, for example, hearing performances in the 30s? Do these communications seem unimportant? The utterances may be ordinarily expressed but I felt respectable people were approaching the schemes positively and perhaps the humour and eloquence which can be displayed here might be put to good use in 'toning up' the programme's audience participation?

My flatmate and I emailed John Peel one evening about some dreadful racket, asking why he played it. The reply came back, "They rock!" This may not seem very significant (or interesting, for that matter) but Peter was really quite amazed that Peel - a hero of his - had spoken directly to him.

[Barbirollians]

Ed reardon's week's satire of the absurdities of Breakfast and Essential Classics was magnificent - I particularly liked the " Mystery Instrument" .

Can be found here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...British_Drama/

[Richard Tarleton]

My flatmate and I emailed John Peel one evening about some dreadful racket, asking why he played it. The reply came back, "They rock!" This may not seem very significant (or interesting, for that matter) but Peter was really quite amazed that Peel - a hero of his - had spoken directly to him.

I wrote to John Peel once - he'd been talking about music which had had an influence on historical events, and I suggested "Lillibulero", which had "sung a king out of three kingdoms". He sent a charming and thoughtful reply. One of nature's gentlemen.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yuck yuck yuck this morning copland again