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  • Suffolkcoastal
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3290

    #31
    The present regime doesn't care much about the music at all between 6.30 and 12. I see the weekend breakfast playlists have been left half finished yet again, just to prove how unimportant the music they play is.

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    • Norfolk Born

      #32
      Originally posted by aeolium View Post
      What the BBC's focus on the role of the presenter has done is to move attention away from the musical content of the programmes, so that there are more threads here about presenters rather than what is being presented. For me a 'good' presenter will be an unobtrusive one who swiftly and concisely (and accurately) conveys the relevant information about the performance. I don't really want to notice the presenter at all, just the music. Which is why programmes like Breakfast and Essential Classics, which are really constructed around the presenter and guests, with the music as a kind of afterthought (and so much of that is endlessly recycled music) are of so little interest to me. I would like to get back to a period - there must have been one - when no-one gave a damn who the presenter was.
      I agree 100%.

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20569

        #33
        Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
        They all manage to sound like primary school teachers.
        That's a dreadful slur on primary school teachers.

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        • VodkaDilc

          #34
          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          That's a dreadful slur on primary school teachers.
          Especially the one who was on just as I tuned in for Irving Berlin at 12 today. She has a vaguely northern accent as well as the 'talking down' tendency. I no longer listen to R3 before 12, so I don't know her name.

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          • Don Petter

            #35
            Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
            "'Smiley voice' affectation" is a brilliant description of that dreadful modern radio phenomenon. I don't know how they do it. I can't imitate it, even if I try, any more than I can finish sentences that aren't questions on a rising inflexion?
            Strangely enough, I suppose they could both be termed 'Bruceisms'. (One Fiona and the other antipodean.)

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            • VodkaDilc

              #36
              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
              Strangely enough, I suppose they could both be termed 'Bruceisms'. (One Fiona and the other antipodean.)
              Does that mean we can expect: "Nice to see you; to see you, nice."?

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              • Don Petter

                #37
                Originally posted by VodkaDilc View Post
                Does that mean we can expect: "Nice to see you; to see you, nice."?


                No bonus for you - He's neither a Fiona or antipodean.

                (Though he might do no worse at running R3 mornings?)

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                • VodkaDilc

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Don Petter View Post


                  No bonus for you - He's neither a Fiona or antipodean.

                  (Though he might do no worse at running R3 mornings?)
                  Antediluvian, perhaps.

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                  • kernelbogey
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5735

                    #39
                    A rather jolly piece from Dowland there - must have had a good day. - Ian Skelly

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                    • Quarky
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 2656

                      #40
                      Originally posted by aeolium View Post
                      What the BBC's focus on the role of the presenter has done is to move attention away from the musical content of the programmes, so that there are more threads here about presenters rather than what is being presented. ...... I would like to get back to a period - there must have been one - when no-one gave a damn who the presenter was.
                      Found Ian Skelly's selections much more interesting today than previously, although I'm having difficulty correlating the items played with the playlist as announced. I assume it was the Ravel string quartet that caught my attention - more demanding than the average Breakfast piece, followed by a piano piece -what was that I wonder?

                      Freely admit that my tastes are not those of the median R3 listener, and I don't like loud bang crash wallop orchestral pieces, particularly first thing in the morning. However on turning to Radio 6, 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.

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                      • french frank
                        Administrator/Moderator
                        • Feb 2007
                        • 30213

                        #41
                        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                        A rather jolly piece from Dowland there - must have had a good day. - Ian Skelly
                        Is that what IS said?

                        I must say, that's my idea of quiet Radio 3 humour
                        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                        • doversoul1
                          Ex Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 7132

                          #42
                          Westminster Waltz by Robert Farnon
                          Rather more harmonious that the House of Common these days…. (Ian Skelly)

                          I am actually listening to Breakfast on weekdays for the first time in several months. There are still a lot of bits and chunks of music but that’s probably the nature of the programme. There are NO ‘when I was doing this and that…’ sort of emails. The listeners’ comments are (almost) all musically relevant. Even Your Call has been from organisers of music festivals. I even get an impression that it was the programme that called the ‘caller’ rather than the other way round, from the way the ‘caller’ sounded not terribly forthcoming.

                          Louise Fryer will be presenting the rest of the week.

                          Perhaps we should bump up the Eternal Breakfast thread.

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                          • kernelbogey
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 5735

                            #43
                            Originally posted by french frank View Post
                            Is that what IS said?

                            I must say, that's my idea of quiet Radio 3 humour
                            Mine too - and that's what I heard.

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                            • underthecountertenor
                              Full Member
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 1584

                              #44
                              Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                              Mine too - and that's what I heard.
                              So did I. Just like the old days at their best. It's the sort of thing Tom Crowe might have said.

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                              • underthecountertenor
                                Full Member
                                • Apr 2011
                                • 1584

                                #45
                                Louise Fryer is taking over from tomorrow. I like her style, but I'll miss IS.

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