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coconochanel said:
I like radio 2 on a Saturday to listen to Rylan and Sunday Michael Ball.
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I usually switch over to MB after listening to Tim Arthur on BBC London. But I am increasingly downloading previously broadcast programmes on the BBC Sounds App and then listening to them when I have free time. The Sounds App is a fantastic resource. There aren't enough hours in the day to listen to all the great radio they produce.
 
Major shakeup at BBC Radio London - Duncan Barkes is leaving his Sunday-Thursday 10pm to 2 am slot. Jim Davis is leaving his late night/early morning slots because BBC London is taking a feed from Radio 5 which will feature Dotun Adebayo all week. He’s taking over from Rhod Sharpe. Not sure if Barkes was pushed. Petrie Hosken’s programmes will be affected as she is currently in from 4 to 7 am Monday to Thursday.

Vanessa Feltz us in the wrong slot from 7 to 10 am. She does that after coming from Radio 2 and then goes to This Morning.

Tim Arthur is also leaving his Sunday 9 am to 12 noon slot and he hadn’t been there long.
Far too much music is now played in must programmes.

There will be knock on effects.
 
Wanted to mention Jo Good, BBC London presenter, weekday afternoons 130 to 5 pm. Far too long a programme and heavily padded with music. She started her own YouTube channel a while ago. It’s recently showing adverts. And, she did a shopping trip to Sainsbury’s with her elderly mother to supposedly purchase a vegan range of makeup. She’s not vegan, or even vegetarian. She kept going on about how cheap everything was. However, on her Instagram account, Middleaged Minx, she showed the same thing and put Ad at the end. Very duplicitous.

She also did a podcast for her series Dogs and the City featuring Jonathan Saccone Joly and a few of his badly cared for dogs. She even said how great his family was in one of her YouTube postings and that she looked upon them as her surrogate family.
Could it to be to do with the fact that she’s now signed to Gleam too?

It’s extremely disturbing that this BBC employee is bigging up this man and not declaring adverts in YouTube.

She’s not relatable - she buys and flaunts £700 pound shoes in her channel yet she’s got many older women following her.

She also drives around in her Mini with her dog loose in the backseat and filming herself while driving, she’d have very little content without her dog, elderly mother and all the freebies inc theatre tickets from her job.
 
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I listen to Radio 2 All day long until about the end of Jo Whiley show at 9pm. However I’m not a fan of Zoe Ball breakfast show as I can’t stand all the childish CBeebies bits ie.. Show and Tell .. l whoop Di woo “how amazing“ Etc listening to a 5 year old singing or playing the recorder out of tune at 7.45am is total cringe tune out time! Although saying that it it’s totally repetitive on the music playlists by the end of the day.
 
I love Radio 2 - all my favourite DJs from Radio 1 from my yoof plus extra cultural bits like Jamie Cullum on a Tues eve, Clare Teal late night Sundays and the utterly joyful Liza Tarbuck early Sat eves. And Sundays aren’t Sundays without Michael Ball and Elaine Paige’s show choons... Just Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine and Steve Wright that I tune out for...
 
Affiliatedlink said:
I listen to Radio 2 All day long until about the end of Jo Whiley show at 9pm. However I’m not a fan of Zoe Ball breakfast show as I can’t stand all the childish CBeebies bits ie.. Show and Tell .. l whoop Di woo “how amazing“ Etc listening to a 5 year old singing or playing the recorder out of tune at 7.45am is total cringe tune out time! Although saying that it it’s totally repetitive on the music playlists by the end of the day.
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I don't like Zoe Ball show but this week Rylan is stepping in for her so I will be listening.
 
I used to listen to R2 a lot in the weekday evenings. Must check out what’s on, however with the BBC Sounds App I mentioned above you can listen to anything anytime after it’s broadcast. Can download or listen ‘live’ by streaming. I often listen to Women’s Hour too.
 
I used to listen to Radio 2 but cant stand the narrow choice in music, then not a fan of Ken Bruce or Steve Wright, or now Sarah Cox.

Am 5 live or Radio 4 all the way!!
i love Nicky Campbell and Rachel in the morning, they make me laugh and bring all the news!
 
OhhBacon said:
I used to listen to Radio 2 but cant stand the narrow choice in music, then not a fan of Ken Bruce or Steve Wright, or now Sarah Cox.

Am 5 live or Radio 4 all the way!!
i love Nicky Campbell and Rachel in the morning, they make me laugh and bring all the news!
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Lots of the R2 output IS dire. The specialist music documentaries are worth seeking out. Johnny Walker often does good interviews on his Sunday programme.
 
newtoyou said:
I love Greg James on Radio 1 breakfast, and Rachel and Nicky on 5 live. I alternate between the two on the way to work.
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The listening figures came out recently. They weren’t good. Lots of listeners were lost after Chris Evans left, and lots were lost when they paired up Jo Whiley with Simon Mayo too. That pairing was a TERRIBLE idea. The controller of Radio 2 is leaving. Don’t know if he jumped or was pushed.
 
If you liked Little Richard, seek out a repeat of a R2 documentary about him aired on the 26th May after his death - it was recorded 5 years ago. It’s on the BBC Sounds App. The music really perked me up when I listened to it yesterday. The presenter is Huey Morgan.
 
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Radio 4 on 24/7 in the kitchen and my ham radio shack (unless I'm talking on the radio of course). Some my not believe it but the sheer variety of content on R4 is amazing. I'm very picky with music so don't often listen to music stations, bit of R2 and R3 sometimes.
 
Cannot stand Steve Wright. What has he got on the bbc?? He's been doing the same routine since the 80's. Singing over the songs urrrgh. So glad I have the radio to myself at work atm he gets booted off straight away.

My day - Greg James -r1 Ken Bruce - r2, then back over to Scott and Chris on r1. Like listening to Jo Whiley now in the evening shes much better in that slot, love Rylan at the weekend and pick of the pops!
 
There’s a wealth of great listening on the BBC and working from home has given me more opportunities to enjoy it. I mostly listen to Radio 2 but 3 and 4 get a look in too. I love Ken Bruce, Jo Wylie, Sara Cox and the ‘specialist’ programmes now on at 11pm. Bob Harris can do no wrong in my eyes and Cerys Matthews has proved a worthy successor to Paul Jones.
Weekends wouldn’t be the same without Graham Norton, Lisa Tarbuck, Elaine Paige, Clare Teal and the wonderful Johnnie Walker.
In my opinion, Steve Wright should be put out to grass and Rylan is just wrong but variety is what makes Radio 2 such a great station.
 
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