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Switching off Radio 2 because Chris Tarrant is standing in for Steve Wright?

101 replies

jodee · 25/06/2012 16:21

Stop playing Status Quo and Phil Collins - arghhh!

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NunOnTheRun · 26/06/2012 00:54

Blush

PuppyMonkey · 26/06/2012 06:23

Alan And Mel are " back to intolerable? " Their show was axed about three months ago! GrinConfusedHmm

Tigresswoods · 26/06/2012 06:27

So we're all agreed? More Zoe! Maybe in Steve's awful slot?

FunnyLittleFrog · 26/06/2012 06:33

RADIO 6 people, RADIO 6.

Shakey1500 · 26/06/2012 12:00

I like it when Zoe steps in for Ken. She's a chatterbox, who comes across as really warm and funny. Her Popmasters are becoming legendary as well Grin

Butkin · 26/06/2012 12:09

I love radio 2 but :

Thumbs down - Steve Wright (ghastly and only reads out dedications that start by praising him), Jeremy Vine (brings everything down the level of the Daily Mail), Richard Maddeley (awful choice of music and inane).

Thumbs up - Chris Evans (great way to start the day), Simon Mayo (lovely bloke and particularly good on Fridays), Lisa Tarbuck (funny, warm and self depricating), Graham Norton (consumate professional), Zoe Ball (perfect stand in).

Always like to listen to Danny Baker as well.

WhyTheBigPaws · 26/06/2012 13:31

Butkin - exactly the same as me, we should run a radio station!

MardyBra · 26/06/2012 14:09

Yes Butkin and Paws for the job

popmasterdefeatsme · 26/06/2012 14:22

I seem to time my entire day based on the Radio 2 schedule - if popmasters on and I'm still in the house I must be late...

I cannot abide Chris Tarrant - YANBU. I wonder if I dislike him more now that I know he's an adulterous prick?

Jeremy Vine is an irritating idiot too - trying to make things more interesting by trying to say controversial things even though you know he probably doesn't agree with what he's saying. I love it when his callers are very calm and professional and manage to make him sound like the idiot he is.

Love Chris Evans, like Ken's show and tracks of our years, can cope with Steve Wright - like Mayo's show too. Also like all the evening shows - particularly the folk and country stuff - but cannot abide that little chap and the jazz show. Zoe is a great stand in - I can't help but like her.

Laughing at whoever mentioned Dermot O'Leary - I manage about 20 seconds of his show and fall asleep.

Other than Graham N and Paul O'Grady's great shows the rest of the weekend feels like a right off.

OlympicRingSting · 26/06/2012 16:03

Cointreau - 'You can go out now Sam' For the last few years we thought it was a dog laying at his feet. apparenly not, it's a Siamese cat...

Quenelle · 26/06/2012 16:14

I only like Zoe Ball and Graham Norton and they're not on when I'm usually listening. I've had enough of Chris Evans. Simon Mayo is ok but DH has an irrational loathing of him.

I'd give Dermot O'Leary longer than ten minutes if I could hear him. Why does he whisper?

It's such a shame 6 Music is digital so I can't have it on in the car. I listen to R4 now.

And you're right ImperialBlether, Richard Madeley IS Alan Partridge.

HerMajestyQueenHillyzabethII · 26/06/2012 16:37

I think the secret of Sally Traffic and Johnny Walker's chemistry and mutual sense of hilarity on a Friday was probably a bottle of wine next to the microphone. I like Sally, she seems like she'd be good value on a girl's night out.

I am fond of Ken Bruce - I love the way he sometimes makes little veiled comments that tell a bigger story. I'll never foget him having a real old dig at Sarah Kennedy without actually saying he was having a dig at her, ifywim. It was very cleverly done, full of subtle passive aggressiveness. I do cringe a bit at the obviously scripted comic lines that he and Lynne fluff between them though.

I am fond on JV even though sometimes he makes me shout at the radio in embarrassment because for a clever man he can ask some really stupid questions.

Chris Tarrant makes me want to stab the radio. Smug, self-important fake sounding twat who thinks it's all about him. He used to be great on Capital in the 80's - WTF happened? Confused

I am very fond of Steve Wright and Richard Madeley in spite of everything. I know, I know, it's wrong, but I can't help it. RM is Alan Partridge personified though.

I hated VF at first, which is saying something given the car crash that was Kennedy, but she is slowly worming her way into my affections. but even Sarah was like everyone's favourite batty aunt. She was beyond dreadful most of the time but every now and then she would show a flash of brillinace and she could be very funny.

LOVE LOVE LOVE Liza. She should have been given a bigger show, but I am sure in time she will have a prime time slot.

Zoe is delightful even if she does make my head spin a bit.

I hated Alex L at first but he is another one whose charms have crept up on me. Now I live in a different time zone he is my breakfast show, and I am very fond of him now.

Chris Evans - well he's a living legend. He's like a human jar of Marmite, but he has so much energy and enthusiasm and honesty that you have to love him a bit even if you hate him. I have followed CE since his days at GLR in the late 80's. I remember when he and Carol McGiffin (who was his producer at the time I think) came on air to say they'd got married completely out of the blue. I feel like he's a slightly wayward cousin I've seen the rise and fall and rise of! I love him, even if I sometimes wish he'd be less giddy. His wife must be a saint. She's got him right where he needs to be now though. Grin

Desmond Carrington and his fucking cat need to be drop-kicked into outer space.

HerMajestyQueenHillyzabethII · 26/06/2012 16:41

Oh, forgot Simon! He's easy to forget in amongst the lot above because he's no huge 'in your face' character, he's just quietly professional and unassuming, but an excellent broadcaster who sort of creeps up on you by stealth. He comes into his own when he is interviewing. I like him a lot.

WhyTheBigPaws · 26/06/2012 20:46

Agree with you about Simon HerMaj, he seems like a really pleasant bloke and is just nice to listen to.

Also agree about Chris Evans - he was on about going off to some car festival a few weeks ago, just after his wife had given birth. I thought 'I bet his wife will love that' - next thing she's texted him to say they're all going, few weeks old baby included! He has so met his ideal partner and I guess because she lets him be himself to a certain extent it works - or seems to. Having read his autobiographies he was very wild and a bit rootless before and he seems much more stable now he's with her.

ladymariner · 27/06/2012 22:57

Cannot stand Lynn traffic woman, she sets my teeth on edge

PuppyMonkey · 28/06/2012 06:08

Well if we're still doing this thread, I would like to say I really really love Pick of the Pops with Tony Blackburn. DD aged 5 was so worried about him when he had pneumonia the other week. She kept randomly coming up and asking us: "Will Tony be all right?" Grin

She was so relieved when he was back on Saturday.

Can't understand all the love for Zoe Ball, on this thread, she can't string a sentence together properly if you ask me, all that gulping and yulking. Shudder.

CurrySpice · 28/06/2012 06:33

I also cannot abide Zoe Angry if she says "bless you" or "me darlin'" one more time I will commit homicide!!

I have to say Chris Evans is starting to wear a little thin. I can't put my finger on why but I think it's because there's never any change of pace or tone. It's always relentlessly "wey hey!" iykwim

LOVE Pop Master and can tolerate Ken although he does play some dreadful music

Have to turn off as soon as I hear the Jeremy Vine droning voice start.

I'm a cheery soul aren't I!?

StealthPolarBear · 28/06/2012 06:35

I cannot stand Chris Tarrant

StealthPolarBear · 28/06/2012 06:36

I love Moira Stuart - she should do more :o

CurrySpice · 28/06/2012 07:03

Even Moira is becoming a bit tired for me now.

CurrySpice · 28/06/2012 07:03

But then again I only have to think back to Wogan and be grateful!

StealthPolarBear · 28/06/2012 07:09

I just like it when she talks about her mundane, ordinary life, and I think Hmm. She also talks and laughs like the woman across the road and I never fail to be amazed. Plus her news is the only news to listen to.

happyhopefulmummy · 28/06/2012 08:29

Is it sad I have a weekday radio schedule when I'm at home?! Radio 5 until 10, then radio 4 for women's hour, then back to radio 5, then at 12 swap over to radio 2. I like JV and SM, but haven't managed to find anythig better for 2-5! Steve Wright is fairly irritating....

CurrySpice · 28/06/2012 08:48

No happyhopeful. Not sad because I am similar

HerMajestyQueenHillyzabethII · 28/06/2012 13:09

I do that too happy I zip back and forth between R2, R4 and 6music depending on the time and the day of the week. If I can't reach the knob quick enough before Elaine Paige comes on then I have to cut my own head off.