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Quattro formaggi said:
Have they announced who is replacing Vanessa yet? Owain wyn evans is sitting in next week I’ve just checked on the sounds app. I hope it’s not him permanently.
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Can’t imagine him on the radio. He used to be our local weather presenter on Look North - you could tell he just wanted to be famous / on the telly, he would’ve done anything given the chance. He used to always try and big up his part and outshine the proper presenters. Right attention seeking wazzock.
 
Shineyshine said:
Can’t imagine him on the radio. He used to be our local weather presenter on Look North - you could tell he just wanted to be famous / on the telly, he would’ve done anything given the chance. He used to always try and big up his part and outshine the proper presenters. Right attention seeking wazzock.
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Agreed. I can’t stand Richie Anderson either he is so irritating and you can tell he thinks he’s destined for better things than reading the travel.
 
Jo Good's "tribute" after announcing the death of Olivia Newton-John on her BBC Radio London show last night was so disrespectful. Jo sounded high, almost gleeful to have the sad news as topic for her show. She was singing along to the ONJ songs they played, yelping, whooping and shouting "keychange". More of her usual mispronounciation of names, including Olivia's daughter's surname, while the Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin was given the surname Martin, presumably Jo (an 'actress' from the same era) had never heard of her.

This woman is a slapdash and egocentric presenter. She seemingly does little research, and has no specialised, or general, knowledge to inform her babbling.
 
Bobby Chariot said:
Seemingly the bbc wanted him to share his Sunday time slot with Rob Beckett.
Paul & Malcolm will be sadly missed, Sunday's were great, Johnnie Walker then O'Grady.

This Sunday will be Paul's last show :cautious:
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Johnnie Walker is a bit before my time so I never listened (sorry hope that doesn’t offend anyone) but I loved Paul while having Sunday roast and a glass of wine before the stress of Monday comes around. Really sad to see him go. I’m really shocked about Vanessa feltz leaving r2 too, I’ll admit I didn’t listen to her much as I used to as I don’t commute anymore but I heard her on a podcast a few weeks ago saying she absolutely loves doing the early radio. Whole thing stinks
 
It’s like the night of the long knives isn’t it. I feel so disappointed in the BBC bosses because I don’t think they have a clue who their audience is. I know who they’d like it to be, and that’s all they seem interested in. Unfortunately those people won’t start listening until they’re much older, and by then it’ll be too late - they need their current audience to carry them through until then but we won’t be around as we’re being driven away.
 
They are determined to turn it into Radio Bland, no presenters with tales to tell or eccentric humour.
It all started with binning the overnight DJ's like Richard Allinson, Janice Long etc then Simon Mayo, now it's Steve Wright, Feltz, Craig Charles got messed about, Tony Blackburn and Gary Davies shuffled.
Now Paul O'Grady, I posted before that it will be Ken Bruce next.
They haven't a clue what they are doing.
Maybe the only bonus is that these presenters will get snapped up by other radio stations and we can continue to enjoy them.

Blair-Waldorf said:
Johnnie Walker is a bit before my time so I never listened (sorry hope that doesn’t offend anyone) but I loved Paul while having Sunday roast and a glass of wine before the stress of Monday comes around. Really sad to see him go. I’m really shocked about Vanessa feltz leaving r2 too, I’ll admit I didn’t listen to her much as I used to as I don’t commute anymore but I heard her on a podcast a few weeks ago saying she absolutely loves doing the early radio. Whole thing stinks
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You don't need to be old to listen to Johnnie Walker's Sounds of The 70's
Just saying 😁
 
Blair-Waldorf said:
I’m 30 and no one my age who I know listens to radio 2, I’m in the minority!

@Bobby Chariot you’re right I just mean I wouldn’t go out of my way to tune in if that makes sense
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I think this supports what we’re saying. The BBC think that younger people are suddenly going to start listening to radio 2 because they drop their well-loved presenters and bring in some new blood.

I don’t think it’s just the presenters that attract listeners, it’s the playlists too. Radio 2 just doesn’t play the type of music that will attract a younger audience.

There’s already stations to cater for younger listeners - Radio 1, 6 Music, etc. I don’t understand why they can’t have a station that serves a different demographic. Surely there’s enough stations to be room for everything, otherwise they all become the same.
 
On her BBC Radio London show last night at 51.20 Jo Good calls the late singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu "an aborigine".

This woman boasts of growing up in Australia but again uses this offensive term.

Her ignorance is crushing.
 
VeeJayBee said:
On her BBC Radio London show last night at 51.20 Jo Good calls the late singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu "an aborigine".

This woman boasts of growing up in Australia but again uses this offensive term.

Her ignorance is crushing.
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Further to the above, I listened to more of Jo Good's show last night and it got worse. During Chewing the Fat (a discussion segment) journalist, radio & podcast producer Paul Russell talks about the Gurrumul track and describes the artist as aboriginal, which is an acceptable term. However, he later shows his ignorance is on par with Jo Good's, saying he loves the music even though "you have no idea what he's talking about because it's all in aborigine", "a seven-minute track entirely in aborigine". o_O (BBC Sounds 1:17:50)

It's reasonable that he'd not know the specific language (there are many, many Australian Indigenous languages) but it is astonishing that someone in his profession is unaware of the offensive term. He must imagine that such a vast continent has only one generic non-English lingo. It's as ignorant as saying "I don't speak African".

Middle-aged Paul's chosen discussion topic is "Ooohh-you-have-to-be-so-careful-what-you-say-to-young-women-nowadays". Paul revealed that he was told "sweetly" by a 24 year old woman he was working with that "it's not really right" to call her sweetheart, which he had done habitually. He was very lucky that she told him she believed he didn't mean it in the way the another "more aggressive" colleague did. I mean WTF? It's a work place, he was lucky she didn't tell the patronising prick to duck right off and go to HR when he said it the third time.

Old hippy dolly bird (as she calls herself) Jo Good thought it was "a real shame" Paul couldn't say that any more, after all she knows him and he's not predator. This selfish comment ignores the power balance in play in a work place between a young woman and an old bloke. She must believe that a man not being predatory towards one woman means he's not towards others.

Another contributor (Sally Winsdor, journalist, publicist and broadcaster) and said she has realised that "...young women now... are so switched on to what's offensive and not offensive, what's acceptable and not acceptable...from the age of 11, 12 onwards..." and breaks it to Paul that "it is becoming offensive". I thought she was saying that as if it's a good thing - until she too said it's such a shame and she didn't know how to stop it. o_O She trotted out the old cliche that she likes the bin-man saying "sweetheart" to her. Not quite the same if it's a boss who's old enough to be your dad saying the same thing. Jo repeated her opinion that it's a shame.

Seriously, this lot should duck off to GB news
 
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VeeJayBee said:
Further to the above, I listened to more of Jo Good's show last night and it got worse. During Chewing the Fat (a discussion segment) journalist, radio & podcast producer Paul Russell talks about the Gurrumul track and describes the artist as aboriginal, which is an acceptable term. However, he later shows his ignorance is on par with Jo Good's, saying he loves the music even though "you have no idea what he's talking about because it's all in aborigine", "a seven-minute track entirely in aborigine". o_O (BBC Sounds 1:17:50)

It's reasonable that he'd not know the specific language (there are many, many Australian Indigenous languages) but it is astonishing that someone in his profession is unaware of the offensive term. He must imagine that such a vast continent has only one generic non-English lingo. It's as ignorant as saying "I don't speak African".

Middle-aged Paul's chosen discussion topic is "Ooohh-you-have-to-be-so-careful-what-you-say-to-young-women-nowadays". Paul revealed that he was told "sweetly" by a 24 year old woman he was working with that "it's not really right" to call her sweetheart, which he had done habitually. He was very lucky that she told him she believed he didn't mean it in the way the another "more aggressive" colleague did. I mean WTF? It's a work place, he was lucky she didn't tell the patronising prick to duck right off and go to HR when he said it the third time.

Old hippy dolly bird (as she calls herself) Jo Good thought it was "a real shame" Paul couldn't say that any more, after all she knows him and he's not predator. This selfish comment ignores the power balance in play in a work place between a young woman and an old bloke. She must believe that a man not being predatory towards one woman means he's not towards others.

Another contributor (Sally Winsdor, journalist, publicist and broadcaster) and said she has realised that "...young women now... are so switched on to what's offensive and not offensive, what's acceptable and not acceptable...from the age of 11, 12 onwards..." and breaks it to Paul that "it is becoming offensive". I thought she was saying that as if it's a good thing - until she too said it's such a shame and she didn't know how to stop it. o_O She trotted out the old cliche that she likes the bin-man saying "sweetheart" to her. Not quite the same if it's a boss who's old enough to be your dad saying the same thing. Jo repeated her opinion that it's a shame.

Seriously, this lot should duck off to GB news
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Excellent post @VeeJayBee . Something so many men misunderstand is that it was never okay to speak to women in that way, there was just an awful long time when a lot of them told themselves it was absolutely fine. In most circumstances, it really wasn't. Women haven't just decided to invent a load of difficult stuff to trip men up, it's always been there. There is no "nowadays" about any of this.

Also, I would expect the BBC to keep Jo up to date with various descriptive terms for people if she doesn't do this herself.
 
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