What A Nice Change.

[andy-hughes]

I would not for one moment wish the dreadful circumstances that caused the absence of Zoe Ball from the radio yesterday, but it was a pleasure to hear Kate Thornton.

She actually talks like an grown-up, and not like a breathless over-enthusiastic work experience student with a Travis/Keane/ Coldplay obsession like Ms. Ball and the dreadful Jo Whiley.

Maybe we could have more people who realise that they are no longer talking to the Radio One demographic which ends at twenty-five, and who can address their audience like the adults they are.

[Zacs-Master]

Yesterday's R1 listeners are today's R2 listeners. Same with the presenters. I like both ladies.

[andy-hughes]

They are - but in the way that Steve Wright no longer gurns around like an adolescent on steroids for his Radio Two show, a degree of adjustment needs to be made I feel,

[Zacs-Master]

Citing Steve Wright as a good R2 DJ doesn't do your opinion any credit Andy.

[andy-hughes]

I'm not saying Steve Wright is a good DJ, I'm saying that he has adapted his style from the manic 'zoo style' presenting he used to do, to a more mature approach.

The fact that such a change has given him an ego the size of a small galaxy, and facilitated him schmoosing all over any celebrity within a two-hundred-mile radius does not mean that his style is actually for the better - but it is a change.

[trt]

I love Zoe Ball, and I think Steve Wright is a brilliant chat/dj/host.

[melv16]

The best DJ's are on 6 music. Radcliffe, Maconie and Cherys Matthews are the pick of the bunch.

[MargoTester]

And the worst has to be Sarah Cox, can't stand her.

[melv16]

I also forgot to mention Sean Keavney's breakfast show.... I don't like being shouted at in the morning by Chris Evans.

[andy-hughes]

melv16 - I agree entirely about Messrs. Radcliffe and Maconie - I am still furious even now that their peerless evening offering was shunted aside to make way from the dreadful Wiley woman.

[andy-hughes]

Once again the variety of views on radio presenters reveals itself - one person's pleasure is another person's purgatory - and amen to that.

That said, can we get a petition up to get Radcliffe and Maconie back on Radio Two, and jettison les Belles Wiley, Ball and Cox?

[melv16]

A bit of a sexist list there, Andy :-)
The most important thing to me is the music they play. That's why I don't listen to day time radio 2... Tracks that I've heard 100's of times before.

[Zacs-Master]

R2 needs a good shake up. Ken Bruce and Steve Wright are way beyond their sell by dates. I'm not sure Radcliffe and Marconi are the right replacements tho.

[andy-hughes]

melv - //A bit of a sexist list there, Andy :-) //

At first glance, I would agree - but my issue with the ladies is not because they are ladies, it's because they talk like students when - at least in the case of Jo Whiley - they have children who are older than students!

It's the false personas, the breathy horrible matey cheesy over-enthusiastic inclusiveness of the way they talk - and their mutual obsession with bland-masters like Keane and Travis.

Not their gender.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs - //R2 needs a good shake up. Ken Bruce and Steve Wright are way beyond their sell by dates. I'm not sure Radcliffe and Marconi are the right replacements tho. //

I would agree about the replacement aspect - Radcliffe and Maconie are clearly evening show hosts, not suited to the daytime demographic - for those audiences, I would say that certainly Mr Bruce, and to a degree Mr Wright, are well-placed.

[Zacs-Master]

Potayto potarto.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed Zacs - as I said earlier, tastes vary, which is only ever a good thing - but it did throw Ms Ball's style into sharp relief having a grown-up do her show, even though as I was careful to point out, I would not for one moment wish for Ms Ball to be absent from the airwaves under such tragic circumstances.

[MallyJ]

If the listeners of programmes on Radio 2 are aged between 25 and 80 then the range of DJs and the opinions stated here make it about right in that there is a programme/DJ that appeals to everyone. It is a huge age difference and a massive range of music and personality to please the listeners. There are those I can't stand and those whose programmes I like..and they will not be the same as everyone elses favourites. The worst is the slimey Jeremy Vine...but he is liked by many....!

[andy-hughes]

MallyJ - I think Jeremy Vine is a real Marmite presenter, although I am about to contradict that view from a personal perspective - I like him if I am in the mood, but if not, I find him a bit frantic at times.

[Zacs-Master]

To be fair, they give Vine a lot of very silly things to discuss.

[Old_Geezer]

It's just tailoring the product to the target audience. I tend to agree one moves on to somewhere that caters for different taste as one ages. I rarely listen to R1, sometimes to R2, but mainly either local or independent stations. I tend to miss Jazz FM. I think I found a new one once, unsure where or what frequency.