New Presenter for Weekend Breakfast Show

[teamsaint]

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 ...

The West of England....where else?!
. Think she started her journalism career there.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/victoria-meakin/11/171/986

[mercia]

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

a return to the glorious days of former BBC typist Patricia Hughes ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hughes

[LeMartinPecheur]

a return to the glorious days of former BBC typist Patricia Hughes ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hughes

Oh yes please, please, please...

[mercia]

Oh yes please, please, please...

i.e. presenters with "no career connection with music" are preferable

[LeMartinPecheur]

i.e. presenters with "no career connection with music" are preferable

No, not necessarily, and ditto for the converse. Good R3 presenters may or may not have any "career connection with music". As witness Patricia Hughes apparently.

Whatever: I just want Patricia back...

[ahinton]

No, not necessarily, and ditto for the converse. Good R3 presenters may or may not have any "career connection with music". As witness Patricia Hughes apparently.

Whatever: I just want Patricia back...

A tough prospect as of earlier this year, sadly - just as with Charles Hopkins, to whom I alluded on the IRR thread...

[LeMartinPecheur]

A tough prospect as of earlier this year, sadly - just as with Charles Hopkins, to whom I alluded on the IRR thread...

I'd conveniently forgotten this (the news being just too painful to assimilate??), but the Wiki article had reminded me

[french frank]

i.e. presenters with "no career connection with music" are preferable

That's a non sequitur. But it would have been better if I'd said that presenters (from wherever, Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio Merseyside) already with "a strong interest in classical music" and/or a dedication to discovering more, are preferable. People who sit in on the Radio 3 job as a change from doing Radio Merseyside or Radio 5 Live may or may not have such a dedication (signs so far have not been good).

I made a point of emphasising that we should wait and see, but the pattern so far established does not encourage optimism.

Is that better?

[mercia]

your posts can never be improved ff

[french frank]

your posts can never be improved ff

Werry ambiguous

[hafod]

The rot set in when announcers became 'presenters'.

[Serial_Apologist]

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!)...


Hmmm...

Nina Ridge already has the position. I kid you not!!!

[James Wonnacott]

The rot set in when announcers became 'presenters'.

+1

[Nick Armstrong]

Werry ambiguous