A good presenter

[doversoul1]

So did I. Just like the old days at their best. It's the sort of thing Tom Crowe might have said.

I hope you mean by ‘old days’, pre-tweeter (twitter?) or pre-Your Call days (or pre-RW days). Or we’ll be accused of being plain nostalgic, anachronistic, old so-and-so, and all the rest.

[underthecountertenor]

Well, I DID say 'old days at their best,' which does allow for the possibility that not everything was better back then. Doesn't it?

[AndyJW]

Yes, I've been enjoying Ian Skelly's presentation this week, and I agree just like Tom Crowe! But whatever we think about other presenters I think we should all hope that Petroc Trelawny can get back to the UK soon and sort out his problems in Zimbabwe. Andy

[underthecountertenor]

Yes, I've been enjoying Ian Skelly's presentation this week, and I agree just like Tom Crowe! But whatever we think about other presenters I think we should all hope that Petroc Trelawny can get back to the UK soon and sort out his problems in Zimbabwe. Andy

Absolutely, Andy. I am a great admirer of PT, and I do wish him well.

[teamsaint]

long drive today, so thought I would give breakfast a chance. Managed an hour without being wound up too much. A bit of variety in the music and no stupid tweets goes a LONG way. Especially when you are going a long way .

[Quarky]

....mmmm.

Problem is with Car Radio that many of the alternative stations are just digital radio, not FM.

But I have been advised that DAB car radio is very poor quality. I wonder if technicalities have improved?

[Beef Oven]

....mmmm.

Problem is with Car Radio that many of the alternative stations are just digital radio, not FM.

But I have been advised that DAB car radio is very poor quality. I wonder if technicalities have improved?

technicalities have improved and, yes, it's still crap

[Don Petter]

....mmmm.

Problem is with Car Radio that many of the alternative stations are just digital radio, not FM.

But I have been advised that DAB car radio is very poor quality. I wonder if technicalities have improved?

If you mean reception quality, it is fine if you use an external roof aerial. (Magnetic one available for a few pounds.) The windscreen aerials are not very effective, but I very rarely get less than 100% signal travelling round the country with the outside one.

If you mean broadcast quality, it has been widely discussed as not as good as FM, but in the car that is not as noticeable as in the home. I only listen to digital for such as R5Extra and R4Extra, which are not otherwise available.

[Quarky]

Many thanks - I'll get onto my garage and see if something can be done.

[Wallace]

John Shea is presenting Afternoon on 3. What a surprise and what a delight. It's back to Radio 3 as it was before the rot set in. He is indeed "unobtrusive...(and he)... swiftly and concisely (and accurately) conveys the relevant information about the performance". It should be about the music and not the presenter and with John it is. It is a shame that we have his photo on the listings page but that will not have been his choice. A portait of Haydn would have been better.

[Panjandrum]

Tom Service up to his old tricks on Saturday's Music Matters: providing some simultaneous translations of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's effusive outpourings, including rendering "avoir la gorge serree" as "to have the throat cut".

At another point, TS obviously with a low opinion of the breadth of vocabulary among the Radio 3 audience, felt the need to translate some French musicologist's use of the word "auto-didact" to describe Debussy, as "he was self-taught." Well, fancy that.

[Flosshilde]

& didn't he refer to 'Bread Street' in Paris? Woe betide the non-French speaker for whom he presumably supplied the translation if they whent to look for it.

[Flosshilde]

I find the presenter is entertaining us with details of what he had for breakfast, and how he ate it off the breakfast table.

So it seems I am unlikely to find my perfect Breakfast show.

Sounds exactly like a perfect breakfast show (unless you mean a show where guests describe their perfect breakfast)

Perhaps the 'show' on Radio 3 is more a dog's dinner?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I have DAB on my car radio. There's nothing wrong with the reception, but I prefer to listen on FM whenever the station is available. Radio 5 (ordinary) is also available on AM, so obviously the DAB alternative is an improvement there.

[teamsaint]

Tom Service up to his old tricks on Saturday's Music Matters: providing some simultaneous translations of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's effusive outpourings, including rendering "avoir la gorge serree" as "to have the throat cut".

At another point, TS obviously with a low opinion of the breadth of vocabulary among the Radio 3 audience, felt the need to translate some French musicologist's use of the word "auto-didact" to describe Debussy, as "he was self-taught." Well, fancy that.

Although on the up side, some people who previously didn't know the meaning of the term "Auto-didact",(perhaps some younger listeners, or those with a less expensive education) now will know it. So for once, well done Tom.