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.
A good presenter
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Norfolk Born
Originally posted by aeolium View PostWhat 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.
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VodkaDilc
Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThat's a dreadful slur on primary school teachers.
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Don Petter
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?
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Originally posted by aeolium View PostWhat 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.
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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Originally posted by kernelbogey View PostA rather jolly piece from Dowland there - must have had a good day. - Ian Skelly
I must say, that's my idea of quiet Radio 3 humourIt 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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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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