Fading music on Breakfast

[salymap]

With an announcement -' We are sorry for the interruption in the programme - we will play that piece again '. Pigs might fly.

[Thropplenoggin]

With an announcement -' We are sorry for the interruption in the programme - we will play that piece again '. Pigs might fly.

Perfect!

[Serial_Apologist]

Normal service will be resumed as soon as impossible

[Thropplenoggin]

Normal service will be resumed as soon as impossible

It's threads like this that sort of make you glad it's so bad.

[Roehre]

It's threads like this that sort of make you glad it's so bad.

It's even worse

[ardcarp]

When I comment on the inanity of DJ babble (on Radio Heart for instance) my teenage g-daughters inform me, with some authority, "but no-one actually listens to it, grandad". So that's the secret, folks.

[Frances_iom]

it's ego 'massage' (I could use a more explicit verb here) by the DJs - but Wright's "new audience" it seems is not only ignoring the DJ but also one assumes is incapable of actually listening to more than a couple of minutes - probably explains a lot that the world pop that now appears late night on R3 has a similar time span for items.

[Resurrection Man]

This is news to me. I thought Radio 3 only started broadcasting at 12 noon.

[EdgeleyRob]

Well, I was just listening to a pleasant harp piece (I don't know what it was...a request, maybe) and it was 'faded' halfway through. Is this to be the norm from now on when music gets in the way of Breakfast's agenda?

Whatever next.

[Zucchini]

Well, I was just listening to a pleasant harp piece (I don't know what it was...a request, maybe) and it was 'faded' halfway through.

If you mean (as you seem to imply) that SMP interupted the rather haunting piece - she didn't; she let it finish and waited an adequate time.

If you mean that the sound level dropped halfway maybe it did maybe it didn't; I was busy.

[underthecountertenor]

Zuccini: there was a fade. The reason was, patently, that there was a segue from the haunting slow movement (which they played) into the finale (which they clearly didn't want to). So they faded it out. And then SMP started speaking.

[AndyJW]

I heard part of Breakfast today while I was in the bathroom and PT read out a text/tweet from someone who said "please stop all this silly chat about Christmas trees and just PLAY THE MUSIC!!!"

Happy Christmas to everyone. Andy

[cloughie]

When I ssaw this heading I thought of Roger Daltrey and the Who's My Generation - Why don't they all fffffade away?

[pastoralguy]

I do remember that COTW went through a phase of fading (!) some years ago. I remember being livid that a work I'd always wanted to hear (the Busoni Violin Concerto) having Donald McLeod talk through the first 30 seconds. (Probably edited in the studio - I couldn't imagine him being party to that crassness).

Letters were written and grapes were crushed. Thank goodness it didn't catch on. (Until now!)

[Boilk]

The entire Breakfast programme would make pefect sense, if only they preceded it with Dog's.