Radio Two - Fern Cotton And Martin Kemp

[andy-hughes]

What on earth is going on???

I tuned in to Radio Two driving in the car, and heard two 'presenters' doing an excellent job of sounding like they were in separate rooms with a few seconds' delay on each other's headphones, with at least one talking in a language that is not their native tongue.

Turns out it's Fern Cotton (why?) and Martin Kemp (double why???).

Who would give Radio Two airtime to either of these people - much less together? It was a complete dog's breakfast, and hopefully not to be repeated.

People should know their skills, and stick to them.

Hearing Martin Kemp as a radio presenter brings to mind Dr. Johnson's famous quote about women preaching being compared to a dog walking on its hind legs -'It is not that it is not done well, more that one is surprised to see it done at all ...'.

[Buenchico]

>>> I've listened to Steve Wright for years and have never heard him say "serious jockin'

You obviously don't listen on a Friday then because "Serious Jockin (with no 'g')", as he always refers to it, is a regular 45-minute feature!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03048pd

I'd actually rather listen to Tim Smith on his own than to Steve Wright. He's an experienced and accomplished presenter, which hows through when he's not forced to wear the straitjacket imposed by SW's format:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/presenters/tim-smith/


>>> Listen to Huey Morgan on Radio2 from 3 til 6am on Saturdays. Fabulously divergent playlist usually.

I fully agree and the same slot 24 hours later (Bob Harris Sunday) is just as good.

[Buenchico]

^^^ PS: During "Serious Jockin" SW (or, rather, his producer) pushes the 'compression' slider to the maximum, so that the music is played with very little difference of the volume levels between the 'quiet' and 'loud' sections, in the same way that club DJs do, resulting in the 'thump, thump, thump' sound of a club dancefloor (or that emanating from the massive speakers in the rear of the souped-up monstrosity of a car which your local boy racer drives).

[vulcan42]

listening to radio 2 this morning Jeremy Vine was on with Ken Bruce talking about his programme. J V was trying to convert metres to feet and came up with a length of 18 foot 12. :o)