Presenters - Again

[Bryn]

Getting a little bored with this thread, currently, so TTFN.

[cloughie]

But her pronunciation of French and other languages was pretty execrable.

That’s a bit nitpicking uct. Probably as late sub for Lizzie she didn’t have time to get gallic as she drove the progamme on the hoof!
She was pleasant, polite and a good presenter.

[Nick Armstrong]

polite

… One would hope that’s rather a given for R3 presenters! However dire one might find some of them, it would be coming to something if any of them were actually impolite

[kernelbogey]

...she drove the progamme on the hoof!

Very much my sense of how she was doing it - and doing so well.

[french frank]

Very much my sense of how she was doing it - and doing so well.

Not having anything to contribute about the latest recruit, I will just offer the thought of how 'important' presenters are: in my view, some can make listening so irritating that turning off completely is the only option (nothing else but R3 appealedto me), but I'm not so wedded to any of the crew - brilliant, appealing, warm, friendly, much loved, or any other of the epithets the BBC habitually uses - that would make ruined programmes worth listening to.

If you're talking about the presenter, the programme is a write-off (because a good presenter shouldn't attract attention at all (in my view).

[underthecountertenor]

Not having anything to contribute about the latest recruit, I will just offer the thought of how 'important' presenters are: in my view, some can make listening so irritating that turning off completely is the only option (nothing else but R3 appealedto me), but I'm not so wedded to any of the crew - brilliant, appealing, warm, friendly, much loved, or any other of the epithets the BBC habitually uses - that would make ruined programmes worth listening to.

If you're talking about the presenter, the programme is a write-off (because a good presenter shouldn't attract attention at all (in my view).

In this context, it’s perhaps worth mentioning that the presenter now under discussion at one point launched into a reminiscence about her mother and a record player which I have to say struck me as pretty banal. Others no doubt found it warm, friendly, appealing etc. What is not in doubt, I think, is that it was a case of the presenter drawing attention to herself!

[kernelbogey]

In this context, it’s perhaps worth mentioning that the presenter now under discussion at one point launched into a reminiscence about her mother and a record player which I have to say struck me as pretty banal. Others no doubt found it warm, friendly, appealing etc. What is not in doubt, I think, is that it was a case of the presenter drawing attention to herself!

I began to curl my toes, admittedly, at this anecdote: but I think it supports the idea that this was her way, at short notice, of introducing music which (I guess) she had had no role in choosing: and there was no musical commentary that I can recall.

As I have written, she was an improvement on the usual Saturday show.

[french frank]

I began to curl my toes, admittedly, at this anecdote: but I think it supports the idea that this was her way, at short notice, of introducing music which (I guess) she had had no role in choosing: and there was no musical commentary that I can recall.

As I have written, she was an improvement on the usual Saturday show.

Yes, it's rather sad that a lot of the criticised presenters are unwittingly, and in one way or the other, hapless victims thrown to the lions. But lions are human beings too (some of them)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But lions are human beings too (some of them)

Only the one in The Wizard of Oz.

[french frank]

Only the one in The Wizard of Oz.

Bert Lahr was his name. But I had in mind some of the savaging lions posting here!

[muzzer]

But her pronunciation of French and other languages was pretty execrable.

DJ was on news reading duty but surely she’d have gladly stepped in at no notice? And her pronunciation is spot on.

[Nick Armstrong]

Shari Vahl has a lovely voice and presentation style.

Along with kernelb, I agree - an ideal voice for radio and a very welcome addition to the roster. I made an exception to the rule and downloaded the Saturday morning programme for a listen. I’d love to hear her do some announcing / presenting free of the gimmicky Saturday a.m. elements.

(Btw I wasn’t particularly put out by her French pronunciation - it sounded like an honest British stab at it - although the Trenet song gives an easy masterclass in how to pronounce «nationale» which could have helped prevent “nash-o-nall”… )

[Ein Heldenleben]

Along with kernelb, I agree - an ideal voice for radio and a very welcome addition to the roster. I made an exception to the rule and downloaded the Saturday morning programme for a listen. I’d love to hear her do some announcing / presenting free of the gimmicky Saturday a.m. elements.

(Btw I wasn’t particularly put out by her French pronunciation - it sounded like an honest British stab at it - although the Trenet song gives an easy masterclass in how to pronounce «nationale» which could have helped prevent “nash-o-nall”… )

They played that Trenet song on Essential Classics this morning . His diction is so perfect I could almost translate it simultaneously. Just wish the actors on Dix Pour Cent could follow his example. And stop saying pute and genial every other sentence.

[Serial_Apologist]

Along with kernelb, I agree - an ideal voice for radio and a very welcome addition to the roster. I made an exception to the rule and downloaded the Saturday morning programme for a listen. I’d love to hear her do some announcing / presenting free of the gimmicky Saturday a.m. elements.

(Btw I wasn’t particularly put out by her French pronunciation - it sounded like an honest British stab at it - although the Trenet song gives an easy masterclass in how to pronounce «nationale» which could have helped prevent “nash-o-nall”… )

I can see your rationale.

[french frank]

I can see your rationale.

Well, there's a thing. I'd always vaguely thought it must exist in French but it seems it doesn't. Rationale is directly from Latin and the final e was originally pronounced. So it's an English word, hence the pronunciation???