to think Simon Mayo's All Request Friday is total bilge?

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and that listening to ordinary people ringing in (usually from the back of a car on the motorway en route to Aunty Jean's big birthday for eg.) is unutterably dull?

It is utter cringe.

And everyone who phones in is an irritatingly high-pitched middle-class southerner on their way to Sally's 50th. With their helium-voiced kids in tow.

And why does every fucker have to talk about which motorway they are on? "We're just on the M11" - like that is some sort of pinnacle of personal achievement or something. Well, it probably is for most of them.

but Simon Mayo is genuinely lovely. I agree though, Fridays are naffness, My Brother earlier was unbelievable, or was that even his show. not sure now

I get sick of hearing 'The Boys Are Back In Town' when a group of men are going anywhere. Can't they think of something original? How do they get on - surely the call handlers know what they're going to ask for?

Ohhhh! The child that sounded like a Haribo advert?

I love serious jockin', I always think of you vipers screaming at the radio. That alone makes me roar with laughter

It's got to be better than the crap that plays after 8am in the morning. That eggs in the morning song and the candy man. Both make me want to cry in rage.

Why why do they play them. They're at best creepy and at worst awful.

Why not just have "Play really good music Fridays"?

I'm not jumping in my car as I leave work hoping to hear about Enid from Grimsby's plan for an old work reunion in a hotel in Bracknell as she pootles down the M1. PLAY SOME MUSIC!

It's awful as well when the oldies are the spice girls or whatever.

Well quite TiggyD. The antics of the (and I completely agree with pp) mostly middle class southerners on their way to a night out or weekend away are only of interest to to the participants. Therefore All Request Friday only satisfies about 100 listeners (I feel I am being generous) per week. The rest of us are bored rigid!

I can cope with the requests but not the way he lets the callers witter on, he even enourages them to do so.

Is it an age thing? The older I get, the less tolerance I have for this tedium.

Mind you, even in my youth, I just cannot see myself giving a flying one about the details of Dean's quad-biking stag weekend in Bournemouth.

I've stopped watching the local news now. "And now to the genocide in Sudan. Robin from Wilmslow has emailed and said that there is absolutely no need for it."

It probably is an age thing Kidnapped. I am at home a lot during the day and I LOVE bit of radio. But there are more and more occasions when I launch myself at the radio and turn it off at the wall swearing like a trooper because I can't bear another minute of the banality.

Having said that, I'm never sent to sleep by callers to the magnificent Danny Baker show.

Aggghhhhhhh Steve Wright

Luffs Simon Mayo though.

I can't be asked to comment on Steve Wright in a room where DS may be. My rant includes adjectives such as 'gonky-nosed', 'spaff badgering' and 'wank doodle'. And that's the clean version.

All the criticisms of the All Request Friday (particularly the part about the demographics of who calls in) are correct. However, I think he sees it as a break after having spent the previous two hours doing the film review show with Mark Kermode.

I love Serious Jockin. Love it.

Local radio is the worst. Before Christmas Sandra rang in, and the DJ wanted everyone to guess what she was doing.

In the biggest anticlimax since the end of Lost, the answer was eating her Christmas dinner a week early. By the way the DJ went on, I would have thought she was injecting heroin into her cat's arse.

Oh god no I love the request show! The songs are a bit samey (but I like them) and there's always someone whose Friday night's started a bit early and is pissed as a fart. But then I love the Chris Evans show too. I just love that they are so unashamedly cheesy, like they acknowledge that maybe life is hard and you don't look forward to Monday but it all goes a lot easier if you can plant a smile on your face and get on with it. They used to bookend my day when my girls were little and before I went back to work I listened to the last couple of shows with a sort of end of school term feeling about me. I'm getting slightly choked up thinking about it .

I have also been the person who answered the homework question on Simon Mayo once! What a claim to fame eh?

I adore Simon Mayo and he is properly good at drive time, funny, kind, gentle and cheeky.
BUT
I absolutely LOATHE any sort of phone in. Even when it is an expert talking it makes me shrivel with cringiness. With an expert, they usually have something interesting to say, but the line is so awful, and it gets cut off, or is fuzzy, so frustrating.
With a 'normal person', WHY? WHY? Would I want to hear somebody I have never met, going to a place about which I care not to see a group of people who might well be imaginary for all I care.
Luckily, I don't often work on a Friday, so can happily sit at home listening to Terry Pratchett on Audible instead.

PHEW, that's better

Just turned Radio 4 off because someone was describing dog dirt, in detail. No thank you.

What is there to listen to on the radio on a Sunday afternoon though, that is the worst.

I have also been the person who answered the homework question on Simon Mayo once! What a claim to fame eh?

Indeed! Tell us more.

It was about ancient space dust . Someone asking about the oldest thing in Britain. And I'd just after been to the Natural History Museum and seen this tiny vial of dust from a comet that was billions of years old. I should really remember how many billion.

Loving the fact that people are wondering why people phone up from motorways. Um, because it's the drivetime show.

Sooo... we're all tuned in right now?

Well I was at half five.