The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Anna]

Sounds to me as if nothing could justify that, although I've no idea what you're on about!

AHA! It was on R3 (I listen to it - do you?) Rob had him doing some bird thing and next day, oh, probably Breakfast, after flurry of complaints, the Host played the Keteleby to torment further. I had to turn off.
Ontopic: I once rowed down the River Wear (or was it the Tyne?) anyway, I took a rowing boat down from Durham on a river that flowed through it. Scary or what?

[antongould]

AHA! It was on R3 (I listen to it - do you?) Rob had him doing some bird thing and next day, oh, probably Breakfast, after flurry of complaints, the Host played the Keteleby to torment further. I had to turn off.
Ontopic: I once rowed down the River Wear (or was it the Tyne?) anyway, I took a rowing boat down from Durham on a river that flowed through it. Scary or what?

Are you Roger Whittaker?

[antongould]

Is that where the expression 'dog in the manger' comes from?

Sorry... I'm getting my coat...

(Literally)

Curses - but then we Saras are famous for our mistakes

I'm off for a pint at the Paradise Gordons with Arnold Box.......

[Anna]

Are you Roger Whittaker?

Who He?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGdBfzCwcQ

[antongould]

Who He?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGdBfzCwcQ

He wrote a song called, I think, Durham Town and warbled about sitting on the banks of the River Tyne ....as even Rumpole knows Durham is on the Wear.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

He wrote a song called, I think, Durham Town and warbled about sitting on the banks of the River Tyne ....as even Rumpole knows Durham is on the Wear.

I've got to leave old Durham town
I've got to leave old Durham town
I've got to leave old Durham town
And the leaving's gonna get me down

Back in 1944
I remember daddy walking out the door
Mama told me he was going to war
He was leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me

When I was a boy, I spent my time
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne
Watching all the ships going down the line
They were leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me,

The last week mama passed away
Goodbye son, was all she'd say
There's no cause for me to stay
So I'm leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.

Altogether now ...

[antongould]

I've got to leave old Durham town
I've got to leave old Durham town
I've got to leave old Durham town
And the leaving's gonna get me down

Back in 1944
I remember daddy walking out the door
Mama told me he was going to war
He was leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me

When I was a boy, I spent my time
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne
Watching all the ships going down the line
They were leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving me,

The last week mama passed away
Goodbye son, was all she'd say
There's no cause for me to stay
So I'm leaving
Leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving free.

Altogether now ...

Pure Ted Hughes........I'll get Rumpole's coat.....

[JanH]

I have been listening to CFM this morning. Alan Titchmuss (sp?) sounds a pleasant reasonable person, the music is classical, though nothing new to me, I am ignoring the adverts quite successfully!

All this is a great improvement upon Radio 3 when i tried it again this morning, a "presenter" I had never heard before, name not listed in the newspaper. He was truly awful, having conversations of no interest to anyone else with the newsreader, and a paticularly silly twitter with a phone in person about her "Mummy's" funeral, her piano, and car chases which continued for several mins...........it really was appalling. I should desist as we already know how awful it is but not having listened to R3 for some time it really struck me how it had continued to deteriorate since I had last turned it on - to see if anything had improved.

Is it a vain hope to think that the new man at the BBC, Lord Hill, having come from the ROH will do anything about the poor service from R3? It would also be interesting to know how many previously regular listeners no longer do so, is this possible?

[JanH]

Charlotte Green will be presenting her classical music programme, on CFM on Sunday at 3.

[Frances_iom]

... It would also be interesting to know how many previously regular listeners no longer do so, is this possible?

FF will, I'm sure, be along with the minimal set of published Rajar figures - I finally after 20+years turned off my R3 alarm as even the 5 mins around 7.30am had sunk as low as I could tolerate - I now would not complain if R3 went off air as the BBC appears to have sunk well below my listening tolerance for much of the day
tho I'd miss the evening concert + a few other programmes (now very few and diminishing in number )

[alycidon]

Oh! It really is so awful. I would not have believed that a programme that is ostensibly musical could sink as low as it appears to have done in recent years. What IS wrong with everyone on R3?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Whatever is going is steadily getting worse, the iplayer for Thursday evening's concert has last Friday's concert on it. The playlists still remain doubled or trebled at times or started and left unfinished. Basically RW is presiding over a station that is in danger of becoming a complete shambles, it's time he went, as either he doesn't care of he's losing complete control of any strategy the station had or was aiming at.

[antongould]

I didn't hear this morning's episode doing the Florence N's to a poorly grandson - but I have to admit that a couple of friends have sent texts moaning about the new(?) presenter.

[french frank]

I didn't hear this morning's episode doing the Florence N's to a poorly grandson - but I have to admit that a couple of friends have sent texts moaning about the new(?) presenter.

Unless there was a last-minute change, it was Tom McKinney, a classical guitarist who has done a bit of presenting for Radio 3 before:

"Tom lives in the Peak District with his wife Sarah and daughter Nancy. He plays a 1999 Paul Fischer and a Gibson SG. He enjoys spending time in Ladbrokes and writing biographical entries about himself in a third-person voice."

A bit too egocentric to be a presenter?

http://www.skills-bills.co.uk/biog.htm

http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/festiv.../events/9.html (second item - is this he?

Easter is sometimes end of/new contract time at the BBC. Next weekend's presenter is Radio Merseyside drivetime presenter Simon Hoban (he did study music).

[vinteuil]

. Next weekend's presenter is Simon Hoban.

... I think he's been on before. .