Sunday Express Skeleton 3Rd November
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Steve Wright
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Steve Wright (Radio 2 weekdays 2-5p.m.) is driving me NUTS !!! We have had to get used to, and ignore the " Love the show " from everyone supposedly that writes in....but I have been trying to ignore the singing along to (usually out of tune, purposely )to the tracks. He must think this is funny. Every now and then you can accept I suppose, if he must, but it seems its every other one now, I find I'm waiting for it. Is it me or is it annoying anyone else.
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Well, it seems that most of you agree, and I agree with everything you say Andy, apart from Sally....
18:08 Tue 24th Jan 2012
I remember Julie Burchill writing about him over twenty years ago saying that he behaves like a one-man Performing Rights Society becuase he either talks or sings over the last twenty seconds of every record he plays - back in those days, people taped stuff of the radio.
I used to like him, but his Smash-esque self-aggrandisment - delivered without a sniff of irony - is getting to be far too much now.
And why is it The Big Show? What does that make every other daytime show on Radio Two? Another self-inflicted big-up, it's not clever at all.
And don;t even get me started on tha Bozeman woman. How anyone who is simply supposed to declaim traffic information can big up her part into some kind of radio 'Mae West' is utterly beyond me. She thinks she sounds sexy and alluring, and yet she is incapable of delivering two lines of script without either falling over her words or stangling on her own saliva - or both! She should be replaced by Bobby Pryor who sounds really nice, and does the job with no thrills. let's be honest, traffic is not sexy, and that's the end of it.
High time the get rid of 'Wrighty' and brought Stuart Maconie in - his stint on Drive Time, sandwiched as it was between the terminally dull Johnny Walker and the sneeringly pompous Simon Mayo was wonderful radio, and he should be given the post forthwith.
Oh - and no, I don't listen any more, for the above reasons.
I used to like him, but his Smash-esque self-aggrandisment - delivered without a sniff of irony - is getting to be far too much now.
And why is it The Big Show? What does that make every other daytime show on Radio Two? Another self-inflicted big-up, it's not clever at all.
And don;t even get me started on tha Bozeman woman. How anyone who is simply supposed to declaim traffic information can big up her part into some kind of radio 'Mae West' is utterly beyond me. She thinks she sounds sexy and alluring, and yet she is incapable of delivering two lines of script without either falling over her words or stangling on her own saliva - or both! She should be replaced by Bobby Pryor who sounds really nice, and does the job with no thrills. let's be honest, traffic is not sexy, and that's the end of it.
High time the get rid of 'Wrighty' and brought Stuart Maconie in - his stint on Drive Time, sandwiched as it was between the terminally dull Johnny Walker and the sneeringly pompous Simon Mayo was wonderful radio, and he should be given the post forthwith.
Oh - and no, I don't listen any more, for the above reasons.
Don't get me started on the dire Johnny Walker, because we left Salisbury at 4 on Sunday we had to endure the dreadfully boring Walker for and hour. I know we could change stations but Radio 4 is too wordy for me (Mr Q likes it) and 3 is too heavy and 1 is not worth any mention at all. Thank God for 5 o'clock and the wondefully entertaing Paul O'Grady! Much better to travel with! (Going down on Saturday morning it was Zoe Ball - slightly more tolerable than the awful Lynn Parsons!)
