Breakfast hijacked by Private Eye?

[Carmen]

Carmen - it's Sara Mohr-Pietsch, not Sarah .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Mohr-Pietsch

https://www.isis-publishing.co.uk/os.../category/2096

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is the one with the specialist musical background. To be contrary, I've never been comfortable with the manner of presentation on Radio 3. It has always sounded contrived (from the hushed 'and now we go over to the ROYAL Festival Hall' of yesteryear to 'great tweet just come in!' of so now it's tomorrow already). It's the intrusive contentless content now that bugs me. And the insistence that I have to be part of a community of listeners. And the safety first programming. And the bits and pieces.

Thanks for the spelling correction. And for the Wikipedia link - there's that "incredibly" again!

[Bryn]

Carmen - it's Sara Mohr-Pietsch, not Sarah .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Mohr-Pietsch

https://www.isis-publishing.co.uk/os.../category/2096

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is the one with the specialist musical background. To be contrary, I've never been comfortable with the manner of presentation on Radio 3. It has always sounded contrived (from the hushed 'and now we go over to the ROYAL Festival Hall' of yesteryear to 'great tweet just come in!' of so now it's tomorrow already). It's the intrusive contentless content now that bugs me. And the insistence that I have to be part of a community of listeners. And the safety first programming. And the bits and pieces.

SM-P in not so much the one with the specialist musical knowledge more one of the presenters with such knowledge. She is, of course, the one who got the job via a talent competition.

Take a look at the potted biographies and academic and musical background and current activities of each of the Radio 3 presenters.

[Crowcatcher]

At the risk of sounding a tad pretentious, I never needed to feel "welcomed" by Patricia Hughes. She was no chum of mine (as Sarah et al are trying to be), but simply a broadcaster doing her job to the best of her ability. That was enough to make me feel a communion with her in the early morning. I haven't heard Sarah M-P on "Hear and Now", and I wouldn't deny she tries hard to be warm and communicative on "Breakfast", but her style, for me, is just so incredibly (a word she overuses, to put it mildly) irritating, and she isn't alone. She and her ilk were deliberately imported to make R3 sound more like Classic FM. I don't think anyone can disagree with that.

I once knew a R3 technical operator who worked with Patricia Hughes, apparently, whilst the music was playing she sat drawing the most fabulous pictures of horses.

I miss her presence greatly and have a recording of her introducing Wilfred Brown's recording of 'Dies Natalis' - bliss on both counts.

[Carmen]

SM-P in not so much the one with the specialist musical knowledge more one of the presenters with such knowledge. She is, of course, the one who got the job via a talent competition.

Take a look at the potted biographies and academic and musical background and current activities of each of the Radio 3 presenters.

Which only goes to show: specialist knowledge and garlands from academia are no guarantees of wonderfulness.

[Osborn]

There was a Friday Breakfast months ago, hosted by Rob C, when every work/excerpt played, bar one, was performed by dead people (I checked the listings that evening). I won't listen to him now. On the following Monday Sara's playlist was (almost) all performed by active living artists. OK the producer may have a lot of influence on the selection of works played. But who chooses the featured performers?

In general I think R3 should treat this decision as seriously as the works themselves & we should have plenty of opportunity to sample up to date interpretations by people we can see or hear live in concert.

Chatter may be irritating for older people who want the station tailormade to their requirements but it doesn't bother me much. I just want an occasional 45mins of Breakfast to give me a decent start to the day, give me a news summary within that 45mins & hopefully some new music or performers to think about.

[Carmen]

Chatter may be irritating for older people who want the station tailormade to their requirements but it doesn't bother me much. I just want an occasional 45mins of Breakfast to give me a decent start to the day, give me a news summary within that 45mins & hopefully some new music or performers to think about.

Osborn, chatter is only irritating to "older people"? I'm perfectly happy with chatter in its proper place, e.g. Graham Norton, Elaine Paige, Terry Wogan - I listen to them all. But why should everything be homogenised? Why can't the stations be different from one other? That's what I love (or used to love) about the BBC.

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[ahinton]

Carmen - it's Sara Mohr-Pietsch, not Sarah .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Mohr-Pietsch

https://www.isis-publishing.co.uk/os.../category/2096

Sara Mohr-Pietsch is the one with the specialist musical background. To be contrary, I've never been comfortable with the manner of presentation on Radio 3. It has always sounded contrived (from the hushed 'and now we go over to the ROYAL Festival Hall' of yesteryear to 'great tweet just come in!' of so now it's tomorrow already). It's the intrusive contentless content now that bugs me. And the insistence that I have to be part of a community of listeners. And the safety first programming. And the bits and pieces.

Hear, hear! - And yes, to all those who keep making this mistake, it's SARA Mohr-Pietsch and SARAH Walker - and yes, they are tow quite distinct individuals...

[Ferretfancy]

I once knew a R3 technical operator who worked with Patricia Hughes, apparently, whilst the music was playing she sat drawing the most fabulous pictures of horses.

I miss her presence greatly and have a recording of her introducing Wilfred Brown's recording of 'Dies Natalis' - bliss on both counts.

I was lucky enough to spend some time at St John's Smith Square for lunchtime concerts and met Patricia Hughes. She had just been doing a series of readings for Radio 3, and I told her how much I had enjoyed them. Her response was very modest,which I think was typical of her, it was almost as if she didn't really know how good she was, and asked quite a few questions seeking to find out which parts worked best for the listener.

She and Joy Worth were simply the best.

[John Skelton]

SM-P in not so much the one with the specialist musical knowledge more one of the presenters with such knowledge. She is, of course, the one who got the job via a talent competition.

Take a look at the potted biographies and academic and musical background and current activities of each of the Radio 3 presenters.

Ah, but I meant the one of Patricia Hughes and Sara Mohr-Pietsch to have a specialist musical background . And the only one of the two to have got the job via a talent competition, indeed .

(I'm feeling very odd one out here, since I find the current Radio 3 ... manner teeth grindingly irritating yet I have no nostalgia for the Radio 3 manner of the mid-late 1970s early 1980s, when I first listened to R3).

[french frank]

(I'm feeling very odd one out here, since I find the current Radio 3 ... manner teeth grindingly irritating yet I have no nostalgia for the Radio 3 manner of the mid-late 1970s early 1980s, when I first listened to R3).

So, I'm even odder one out since I wasn't even listening to Radio 3 that long ago.

We were so poor we'd just got a cat's whisker to listen to the radio. (And the whisker didn't work anyway )