Originally posted by kernelbogey
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Spare me another newsreader given privileged access to programming
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Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
So I was right that your ‘very, very welcome’ was purely theoretical!
I shan’t be listening again.
I don’t mind a bit of Christmas sentimentality but this was mind-numbing
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
I never thought I'd see Alan Titchmarsh and Clive Myrie named in the same sentence.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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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
As I understand it, the Upstart Crow decided not to use the Christmas story he heard on the stagecoach (even though it was told by Kenneth Branagh) and predicted - correctly - that a later writer would use it. Consequently, it's Dickens who gets the blame for his role in turbocharging the growth of Christmas sentimentality.
All of course about spending money. Another triumph of capitalism.
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View Post
Is there a single reference to Christmas in Shakespeare? Our sentimentalising of it can be laid at the door of Prince Albert and Dickens maybe . It was turbo charged by the Americans . When I lived there in the 60’s I couldn’t believe how seriously they took it.,The Christmas display in Macy’s was extraordinary
All of course about spending money. Another triumph of capitalism.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
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I had no idea who Clive Myrie was (and from the way he pronounces it, what his surname was) when he insisted repeatedly on sharing his favourites with me, but as I'd much rather listen to my own favourites, and I don't suppose he'd want to hear mine, we don't seem destined to share each other's company.
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostThe programme appears to be another example of BBC Radio 3 copying Classic FM ("The Home of Christmas Music").
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Originally posted by LMcD View Post
If I learn that it's going to happen on the same night, I'll make make sure that my 'Mute' button is working before I tune in.
I was once interviewed by Clive Myrie back in his Radio Bristol days and I stopped the recording right at the beginning to register an objection. Can't explain here, not just at the momentIt 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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I had to fast forward through Clive Myrie's presentation bits in the Proms first night as it was so embarrassing. I remember the late, great Richard Baker who was a newsreader and also knowledgeable about classical music who presented the Proms, a R2 programme and was a panelist on 'Face the Music'. I don't remember him being as toe-curlingly embarrassing in his presentation style - but it was many years ago and I was a lot younger then!
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