The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[EdgeleyRob]

My car radio is always tuned to radio 3 but always gets switched off as soon as I set off for work in the mornings.
I don't get all this maps,tweets,front page of the papers etc malarkey.
They should put breakfast on during the night and TtN from 6 til 12

[french frank]

And even if Bax did write it would still be irrelevant because as we all know, well, nearly all, that the "Paradise Garden" is a pub. How close to a new-low is this?

And I'm suspicious about this response from R3 on Facebook (re the overuse of the adj "towering", referring to JS Bach):

'According to THE INTERNET (how do they KNOW?), JS Bach was 191cm tall, which is about 6'3", so at least MODERATELY towering. Point taken, though. Thanks for listening! Steve B'

I'm surprised to learn he was that tall. And, by coincidence, the internet tells us that the heavy metal musician "Sebastian Bach" of Skid Row was also 6'3" (in fact 191cms). I wonder if that's why he changed his name to Sebastian Bach... or...

[teamsaint]

My car radio is always tuned to radio 3 but always gets switched off as soon as I set off for work in the mornings.
I don't get all this maps,tweets,front page of the papers etc malarkey.
They should put breakfast on during the night and TtN from 6 til 12

I just pop it on for a minute in the hope....
don't know why I bother really.
Certainly in the car in the morning its always Cds these days.
Depressingly, even my modest CD collection allows for infinitely more variety than "Breakfast".

That is wrong.
I agree about TTN.Their mix is about right for 6 to 12 mornings.

[Nick Armstrong]

I just pop it on for a minute in the hope....

Same here, just to see. I enjoyed the sound of Chopin's piano concerto No 1 this morning... But off went the radio when there was more bloody Tchaikovsky ballet music shortly after

[teamsaint]

Same here, just to see. I enjoyed the sound of Chopin's piano concerto No 1 this morning... But off went the radio when there was more bloody Tchaikovsky ballet music shortly after

does this not get you moving, Calibambi?

[Nick Armstrong]

does this not get you moving, Calibambi?

I'm quite regular enough, thanks sainty

[teamsaint]

smut , innuendo, and botty humour ! It must be a bank holiday weekend.
"Carry on Sniggering" must be on the telly, f'sure.....!!

[Serial_Apologist]

smut , innuendo, and botty humour ! It must be a bank holiday weekend.
"Carry on Sniggering" must be on the telly, f'sure.....!!

And it spread to R4 this morning: "The Rolling Stones appearing at Glastonbury this year has to be today's top news story".

No it doesn't!

[Black Swan]

Same here for me. I have R3 set for the car radio but always a CD in the CD player as back up to give relief when the whittering begins. Some really dire music is coming from Breakfast.

[Andrew Slater]

I sometimes monitor part of the programme in the car when the sports news comes on on R4 at 7:25 or thereabouts. I heard the snippet from 'Spring Fire' this morning and the gaff afterwards. Perhaps Ms. Mohr-Pietsch was thinking of 'The Garden of Fand'. I arrived at my destination soon afterwards: did she by any chance correct herself later?

[french frank]

Perhaps Ms. Mohr-Pietsch was thinking of 'The Garden of Fand'.

Re the matter of the pub, it was slightly confusing since the phoner-in referred to a gardening programme entitled 'Paradise Gardens', whether ignorance or a deliberate play on words by the TV production team, who knows?

did she by any chance correct herself later?

If, as we're told, people listen to only about 20 minutes, it needs an alert producer and quick correction. Otherwise those who heard the error won't hear the correction and those who hear the correction won't have heard the error. But, certainly no prompt correction (not sure I can be bothered to listen until the end. I've missed the Johann Strauss II and the Gershwin, but Beethoven's 7th (last movement) is up ahead, as usual.)

[antongould]

I sometimes monitor part of the programme in the car when the sports news comes on on R4 at 7:25 or thereabouts. I heard the snippet from 'Spring Fire' this morning and the gaff afterwards. Perhaps Ms. Mohr-Pietsch was thinking of 'The Garden of Fand'. I arrived at my destination soon afterwards: did she by any chance correct herself later?

I don't know if she did on air having, in true Wenger style, missed the episode - but she did tweet an apology, for her second mistake of the week so far, at 08.02. She asked what she could do to make it up to us,leaving herself rather wide open for the more or less immediate response - could she never say the words baroque spring ever again.....

[Thropplenoggin]

Dog tweets and cock ups?



Perhaps it's time to re-brand the show as 'Dog's Breakfast'.

[clive heath]

Geoff Hamilton did indeed have series called "Paradise Gardens" as the caller clearly said. He then mentioned the closing music of the Hamilton series as involving flutes and, well it was early, but I think he said it was from the beginning of the piece by Bax called "Spring Fire". Not what was played. Que Sara Sara.

[french frank]

I think he said it was from the beginning of the piece by Bax called "Spring Fire". Not what was played. Que Sara Sara.

It was very curious - the caller specifically said the incidental music was from the first movement In the Forest Before Dawn. Immediately afterwards SMP announced that they would be playing the final movement - Maenads. That may well have been set up beforehand by the production team because I don't know that they use CD players and physical discs on Breakfast any more.

I would guess someone just noted it was the Spring Fire and thought any movement would do and SMP was reading her running order ... ??