The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Northender]

Did you know that, for obvious reasons, an alternative name for the Bergenia is 'Elephant's Ears'?

[vinteuil]

Did you know that, for obvious reasons, an alternative name for the Bergenia is 'Elephant's Ears'?

... the other name for Bergenia is "pigsqueak", which is rather nice :

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

[Osborn]

La donna è mobil'.
Qual piuma al vento,
muta d'accento e di pensier!

Or, for lovers of the beautiful game & rather more subtle:

Paolo di Canio,
Paolo di Canio,
Paolo di Canio, f**k off to Lazio

[Old Grumpy]

Or, for lovers of the beautiful game & rather more subtle:

Paolo di Canio,
Paolo di Canio,
Paolo di Canio, f**k off to Lazio

The Beautiful Game

Such a misnomer - as is elegantly demonstrated by #1563!

[antongould]

Quite a, IMHO, decent Breakfast served up by PT this morning, Howells, Finzi, Berlin Phil (Your Call) Charles Tietjens, Barbara Pym, To Serve Them All My Days and of course Rhapsody in Your Favourite Colour.

[salymap]

Iput Breakfast on briefly, but SMP then asked me to put a message in a bottle for people to read in the future. I think 60 years hence was mentioned.
It was very early, perhaps I dreamed it, if not it is slightly worrying . And was I supposed to post it down the loo, not being near the sea. :err:

[antongould]

I think your message and 2 others, one of which will obviously be French Frank's, are to be made into a song by a member of Blur and then something else weird happens.
Glad I could clear that up for you........

[cloughie]

Iput Breakfast on briefly, but SMP then asked me to put a message in a bottle for people to read in the future. I think 60 years hence was mentioned.
It was very early, perhaps I dreamed it, if not it is slightly worrying . And was I supposed to post it down the loo, not being near the sea. :err:

A Sting in the tale there then!

[Suffolkcoastal]

Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!

[cloughie]

Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!

But just the odd quip not the full yarn! Was it the 'Horse of the Year Show' bit?

[antongould]

But just the odd quip not the full yarn! Was it the 'Horse of the Year Show' bit?

It was indeed - I almost jumped the lights!

[Bax-of-Delights]

Looking at the Breakfast playlist for this morning, it looked a typically ghastly selection. Including yet another Hungarian Dance, another Schubert Impromptu, the Barber of Seville overture again, the March from the Karelia Suite yet again, yet another Grimes sea interlude, the Shostakovich Festival Overture yet again, and yet another offering from Piazzolla (which R3 seems to think is 'trendy'). I see the programme started with Mozart's A Musical Joke, which was rather apt and perhaps should begin every R3 breakfast programme these days!

I tuned in today for the first time for some weeks and was struck by two things:
A) The utter blandness of the familiar choices (Holst's "Mars", Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" etc etc)
and
B) How I hadn't missed the programme one jot in all those weeks.

(And the same goes for "Essential" - what a piffling unimaginative adjective - Classics).

[Don Petter]

We got into the car this morning, delighted to find and hear the second half of the classic performance of Renard, with Ansemet, only to be rudely awakened within a microsecond of the last triumphal chord by RC, eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet.

Surely a work such as this deserves at least a second or two to be digested and relished, just as much as one ending in a quiet passage?

[Frances_iom]

...eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet. :

the only time I switch on Sunday morning is for the Bach Cantata - he did exactly the same within microsecs of the end - who the 'ell cares about some stupid comment from anyone who is daft enough to tweet - I presume Rob has either lost it or has swallowed the Wright shilling so deeply that he can no longer think any other way.

[french frank]

We got into the car this morning, delighted to find and hear the second half of the classic performance of Renard, with Ansemet, only to be rudely awakened within a microsecond of the last triumphal chord by RC, eagerly reporting on someone's trivial tweet.

Surely a work such as this deserves at least a second or two to be digested and relished, just as much as one ending in a quiet passage?

They won't be told



I'm not sure whether it's just dumbing down Radio 3 or whether, by persisting, they actually dumb down their audience by eventually getting them to accept it without complaint.