Radio 3 breakfast late 80's questions

[Andrew Slater]

I started listening to Radio 3 in 1988 and used to wake up to it every weekday. I'll never forget the breakfast presenter's fabulous delivery and tone - measured and in equal parts academic and reassuring - I managed to form the impression that he was taken out of a velvet-lined mahogany box for the duration of the show and packed away at the end of it. Can anyone remind me of his name...?

Also, I seem to recall that before the schedule proper got underway they used to play the same piece of music every day as some sort of sound test. There would be a sequence of short tones, leading up to this music. Anyone remember it? I think it was some Bartok...

PS - noob

In those days, no particular announcer introduced the programmes, including Morning Concert; as kernelbogey has said above, it sounds like Peter Barker. There's a set of samples of announcers here

See also this thread.

[ronidaho]

Thanks for the responses. Based on this helpful link (http://andywalmsley.blogspot.co.uk/2...nnouncers.html) I'm pretty sure it was Tony Scotland I'm thinking of. There's some great voices there, quietly authoritative without a hint of forced joviality. Nice.