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The dire state of Radio 2

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LindorDoubleChoc · 26/04/2026 12:21

I want to cry about how awful Radio 2 is!

Just listening to Paddy McGuinness (who is not my favourite, I'll admit) and he is doing "embarrassing things you didn't know" - for the eleventy millionth time on that station. People phoning in and saying about the petrol cap sign on the dashboard, the tin foil roll - we have heard this all before. It is so SO SO VERY DULL. Please - what can be done to improve it? It's like baby food for the brain.

As I have a well-documented phobia about Gary Davies I am barely listening to R2 these days and I'm wondering if now is the time to call it a day forever?

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FernandoSor · Yesterday 07:41

Ncforthis2267 · 26/04/2026 15:11

Long time radio 6 fan. Going off it fast lately though. They've got some new voice over guy that sounds like he's been plucked from a Liverpool young offenders institution. The scummy voice winds me up every time.

Far worse they've recently replaced the chill vibes of Huey on a Saturday morning with some awful high pitched over cooked 'southern' American dj. Her voice is truly terrible! Fingers on a chalkboard terrible. I understand she's some obscure punk singer from the US so guess they think that's cool?

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I would hardly call Beth Ditto ‘obscure’. Have you never heard of Gossip? I would imagine they would be familiar to any 6Music listener as ‘Standing in the Way of Control’ was heavily played.

Although Beth Ditto is an acquired taste, I do like that 6Music uses real musicians as DJs: Cerys Matthews, Iggy Pop, Guy Harvey and Don Leets, Lauren Laverne are all great. And now Jarvis Cocker is rejoining which will be wonderful.

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