New Presenter for Weekend Breakfast Show

[french frank]

Off-topic for this thread, but ff's posting in #21 of Imbrailo's Hölle Rache is a piquant extra for those of us who recently saw his Billy Budd...

Yes, I found the video while I was looking up information as a result of the Billy Budd discussion here a few weeks back, and was reminded by the mention of the QotN's aria up thread!

[HARRIET HAVARD]

I'm sure we could all live with the fact that the Breakfast show is terrible if it wasn't for the fact that the rot has set in right across the station. Essential Classics, with its quiz and Desert Island Discs section, playing someones idea of the top ten over and over again. Composer of the week- this week wall to wall John Williams pap. In tune- well enough said about that the better. Michael Barclay (or is it Berkley)- another Desert Island Discs show.

I'm sure most of us are thankful that the film music A to Z has come to an end. But the worrying thing is, what the Zombies who have taken over the station will put in its place? Past experience suggests that when you think the station has reached rock bottom, out come the drills, and they just keep on digging.

A least the station has been Petroc free recently..........It wont last.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I know it seems like hyperbole FHG, but if you think about it - who did the listeners prefer in the poll: Prokofiev, VW, Korngold, Alwyn? No, it was John Williams? As another poster pointed out, on Facebook one listener complained about "too much Bach" on radio 3; and now another is whinging that the singing ruins Verdi.

Indeed - hence my "There again, perhaps not" comment. I share your pain!

[Sir Velo]

Well it's a case of get out your whippets, racing pigeons and flat caps this morning. I endured about half an hour of Adam "Professional Yorkshireman" Tomlinson's schtick until he launched into an interminable monologue about some lawn racing championships to be held in somewhere called "Billing Hurst" (sic).

This is, definitively, rock bottom for the station.

[Alison]

I feel like writing to Prince Charles about it.

[Black Swan]

Well it's a case of get out your whippets, racing pigeons and flat caps this morning. I endured about half an hour of Adam "Professional Yorkshireman" Tomlinson's schtick until he launched into an interminable monologue about some lawn racing championships to be held in somewhere called "Billing Hurst" (sic).

This is, definitively, rock bottom for the station.

I totally agree. This is the worst so far. I caught some stick about gardening or weeding the garden. Of course it is world teachers Day. I am now waiting for a contest to submit your name to be selected as a guest presenter. Hold on, maybe it has already happened. Now Sting is singing Dowland. I'm off to get the morning papers.

[Alison]

And to think Gerald Kaufman made such a stink about Sandy Burnett.

[Nick Armstrong]

This is the worst so far

Not switching on, even to try - the guy was so dire 'presenting' the Wagner concert in June (see #8 above)

Just about every single image and word on this page is depressing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c05pn

and the main 'cheeky chappie' pic - well can't look at it, makes me gag....

[kuligin]

I totally agree. This is the worst so far. I caught some stick about gardening or weeding the garden. Of course it is world teachers Day. I am now waiting for a contest to submit your name to be selected as a guest presenter. Hold on, maybe it has already happened. Now Sting is singing Dowland. I'm off to get the morning papers.

Tried this rubbish for 3 minutes, then came Sting, so I turned off, actually don't think I will even listen to Andrew McGregor. I struggle to find a programme I can listen to, perhaps Opera on 3 if it was an interesting work/performance

[BBMmk2]

I couldn't believe it when they had Sting trying to warble his way through a classic Dowland song!

[Richard Tarleton]

Tried this rubbish for 3 minutes

Likewise, though probably a different 3 minutes. Unbelieveable.

[Mr Pee]

I couldn't believe it when they had Sting trying to warble his way through a classic Dowland song!

Truly dire; but on a par with the whole presentation. Having got up at 4:45 to watch the GP qualifying, I was dozing whilst this was on, and thought that perhaps I was having a bad dream. But no, sadly it was real.

How much lower can Radio3 sink? Recently, particularly in the morning, ClassicFM doesn't seem such a bad alternative.

[Mary Chambers]

How much lower can Radio3 sink? Recently ClassicFM doesn't seem such a bad alternative.

Classic FM has irritating advertisements. Otherwise, not much difference now, at least at this time in the morning.

What I just don't understand is why R3 doesn't feel the need to educate the 'new audience' - if there is such a thing.

[Sir Velo]

Likewise, though probably a different 3 minutes. Unbelieveable.

Ah then you would have been unlucky enough to have missed the anecdote tweeted in by a listener to commemorate National Teachers' Day who told us that her first music teacher went by the name of "Crotchet", and consequently, had no choice other than to take up the profession.

[Mr Pee]

Classic FM has irritating advertisements. Otherwise, not much difference now, at least at this time in the morning.

What I just don't understand is why R3 doesn't feel the need to educate the 'new audience' - if there is such a thing.

Yes, it is still the ads that are the deciding factor. But other than that, as you say, not much difference.

A sad state of affairs.