New Presenter for Weekend Breakfast Show

[Frances_iom]

What is Roger Wright playing at?

getting his gong as controller of Proms and the man who 'doubled' R3 audience - those who will judge him re latter 'achievement' will not have ever listened to R3 and have no idea that RW is just prostituting what was once a world renowned radio channel

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

the economic and management consultant John Kay has written a couple of compelling books on markets, firms and success ... but this is especially interesting:Obliquity ... he makes the observation and marshalls evidence on the fates of those companies that choose shareholder returns as their driving strategic narrative and shows that they go broke the most often .... the resonance this has with the accessibility notions of the BBC Trust & Management is Kay's argument that such businesses lose their customers because they have no coherent identity or purpose other than the making of money ... .... the fact that they are spending public money in an inherently hostile ideological climate, and in the midst of an amazing epidemic of managerial greed and expansion/inflation of executive seats and bureaucracy .... they have no idea what they are for any more except a singular focus on audience size to justify their pots of gold and power.... the managerialism that Birt crystallised has taken full hold ....

and like all such major organisations with a long running defective narrative, large size and agent capture, the executive cadres become peopled with nodding heads and whisperers ... in a society where the justice system is expected to be self financing what else may one expect from large public bodies but such mediocrity and talentless ambition in rabid pursuit of £££££££££££££££££££££.... the thought that they might fail is always a personal one - a nightmare fall from some miasmic state of grace ....the system is in failure mode and shows no awareness of what ails it .... at least two thirds of the output of the BBC is commercial not public sector .... sell it off and start again so that real broadcasting talent can thrive again

[teamsaint]

great post jazzer. You should do a weekly "Comment" spot on the brave new "virtual R3" that they are building on Platform 3.

[french frank]

great post jazzer. You should do a weekly "Comment" spot on the brave new "virtual R3" that they are building on Platform 3.

Too intellectual for us Radio 3 types - I see there has been some Breakfast presenter backlash over on the R3 Facebook page too ... I meant to listen to the whole thing on iPlayer yesterday, but accidentally closed the browser tab half way through. Didn't bother with the second half - already put in an ill-temper by some gibberish about lawnmowers right at the beginning.

[Alison]

I wonder if Tony Hall listens to Breakfast ? Surely he can't feel any pride at the absolute drivel now being served up.

[HARRIET HAVARD]

Agreed

[muzzer]

I'm quite a big fan of MH. He has tales to tell, but mostly doesn't overdo the telling. As to the two recent additions I can only confess that the last voice I want to wake up to at the weekends is that of a cheeky northern chappy straight off local radio. Auntie often appears to have absolutely no idea how to reach out to new audiences.

[french frank]

I'm quite a big fan of MH. He has tales to tell, but mostly doesn't overdo the telling. As to the two recent additions I can only confess that the last voice I want to wake up to at the weekends is that of a cheeky northern chappy straight off local radio. Auntie often appears to have absolutely no idea how to reach out to new audiences.

One point is that the BBC is so keen on man/woman 'job shares', they ought to be finding another woman to replace Clemency B-H. I see erstwhile newsreader Catriona Young has been doing Through The Night recently - my nomination for the Breakfast jamboree. Hope she isn't too wedded to Lahndon.

[DracoM]

I'm quite a big fan of MH. He has tales to tell, but mostly doesn't overdo the telling. As to the two recent additions I can only confess that the last voice I want to wake up to at the weekends is that of a cheeky northern chappy straight off local radio. Auntie often appears to have absolutely no idea how to reach out to new audiences.

Yes, and particularly the R3 audience. Baffling.

[french frank]

Next weekend it's Victoria Meakin (sometime of Radio 5 Live), taking over from CB-H who is promoted to weekdays. Good luck to her - I can't see any career connection with music, but I don't think that's necessary now.

[teamsaint]

Next weekend it's Victoria Meakin (sometime of Radio 5 Live), taking over from CB-H who is promoted to weekdays. Good luck to her - I can't see any career connection with music, but I don't think that's necessary now.

well she's from the capital of the West, career wise at least, so no excuse not to do a bit of research, FF.

Like Clem, she likes to do a bit of acting from time to time, (I think) so perhaps that will help her.
Yes, that should be a big help. wonder who her agent is?

[Barbirollians]

Sadly I can relate to this, though perhaps not quite in the way intended. I feel the Queen of the Night aria from the Magic Flute hardly ever lives up to what I imagine it should sound like. I blame Mozart for having written something which is almost impossible to sing.

Well having heard -Lucia Popp with Klemperer- every other performance sounds like that to my ears .

[ahinton]

CB-H

Sounds abit like GBH to me...

who is promoted to weekdays. Good luck to her

What about us, though? And with a name like her forename, why not promote her to weather forecasting? That might result in a real improvement (with which we could all certainly do in these chilly days!)...

I can't see any career connection with music, but I don't think that's necessary now.

Hmmm...

[french frank]

well she's from the capital of the West

The West of what? Bristol? Washington? I think she lives up near Salford which appears to be a recommended qualification for presenting The Radio 3 Breakfast Show.

Still, give her a chance: I DO mean that - it's just that, on paper ...

[Sir Velo]

The West of what? Bristol? Washington? I think she lives up near Salford which appears to be a recommended qualification for presenting The Radio 3 Breakfast Show.

I think he means Portsmouth.