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  • JasonPalmer
    Full Member
    • Dec 2022
    • 826

    Some nice live music this evening, i often listen to in tune around dinner time as either cooking,cleaning up or post cleaning up.
    Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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    • Barbirollians
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 11686

      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
      Should have guessed: West presupposes East (though not always; maybe North or South) with the bay between.
      Anyway: too much/many Wittering(s)!
      Agreed - a programme to be avoided because of Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham .

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      • DracoM
        Host
        • Mar 2007
        • 12972

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        • Padraig
          Full Member
          • Feb 2013
          • 4236

          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
          Anyway: too much/many Wittering(s)!
          One oerson's wittering(s) is others' repeatedly girning about it/them.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30290

            Originally posted by Padraig View Post
            One oerson's wittering(s) is others' repeatedly girning about it/them.
            Both sides allowed to have their say!
            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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            • oddoneout
              Full Member
              • Nov 2015
              • 9200

              Originally posted by Padraig View Post
              One oerson's wittering(s) is others' repeatedly girning about it/them.
              How do you know they are girning - isn't that pulling faces?

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              • pastoralguy
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 7759

                Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                Agreed - a programme to be avoided because of Sean Rafferty and Katie Derham .
                I always had a downer on Mr. Rafferty until we sat next to him at a play in Edinburgh and found him to be an extremely nice chap! Ever since then, I’ve been more forgiving of his conversational style.

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                • oddoneout
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2015
                  • 9200

                  Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                  I always had a downer on Mr. Rafferty until we sat next to him at a play in Edinburgh and found him to be an extremely nice chap! Ever since then, I’ve been more forgiving of his conversational style.
                  I had no issue with him as a person and didn't doubt that he had many good qualities, but what made me give up was his excruciating interviewing.Long rambling sentences containing multiple questions were challenging enough for those with English as their first language, but combined with his accent they just floored the often young foreign performers he talked at in the studio and I found it all just too uncomfortable to listen to.

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                  • Ein Heldenleben
                    Full Member
                    • Apr 2014
                    • 6781

                    Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                    I had no issue with him as a person and didn't doubt that he had many good qualities, but what made me give up was his excruciating interviewing.Long rambling sentences containing multiple questions were challenging enough for those with English as their first language, but combined with his accent they just floored the often young foreign performers he talked at in the studio and I found it all just too uncomfortable to listen to.
                    On the contrary I think he is an excellent interviewer and in my view has done a very good job in the sensitive task of challenging BBC managers on air over the cuts. He also has a wonderfully mellifluous Irish accent. He is also very good at ever so subtly taking the mickey out of people.

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                    • Old Grumpy
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 3615

                      Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
                      On the contrary I think he is an excellent interviewer and in my view has done a very good job in the sensitive task of challenging BBC managers on air over the cuts. He also has a wonderfully mellifluous Irish accent. He is also very good at ever so subtly taking the mickey out of people.
                      Agreed.

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                      • gurnemanz
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 7387

                        I remembered we had discussion re Sean R once before and to save thinking up some new comment I'm just adding a link to my previous pronouncement on the subject:

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                        • JasonPalmer
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2022
                          • 826

                          It goes well with cooking and cleaning away after, not too much concentration required so it is the timing of the program that means i bump into it regularly.
                          Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...

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                          • vinteuil
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12831

                            Originally posted by JasonPalmer View Post
                            not too much concentration required
                            ... for those seeking a reason why Radio 3 should exist, perhaps it should be - a channel where much concentration is required

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37684

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              ... for those seeking a reason why Radio 3 should exist, perhaps it should be - a channel where much concentration is required

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                              Perhaps you should have concluded with the word "exist", vints!

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                              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20570

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... for those seeking a reason why Radio 3 should exist, perhaps it should be - a channel where much concentration is required

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