Eddie Mair leaving PM programme (and BBC)

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44672218

Irreplaceable.

Anyway. Which woman journalist should get the PM job? And the Question Time job? And the (god make it soon) the Today Prigramme hob?

Kathy Clugsden or Susan Rae would be worthy successors

Who else on the BBC would do that?

Well, James Naughtie did call Jeremy Hunt a cunt which will go down as my all-time favourite Radio 4 moment.

In my view Eddie Mair has been the most skillful interviewer there's been on the BBC for years.

I’m going to miss the PM team, and Tony Hall’s after shave. I realise the BBC will close down without me and there will be a run on the pound but I can’t stay in an organisation that refused to let me host Songs of Praise. I bought a jacket and everything.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/eddie-mair

The news as presented in the UK is getting weaker and weaker with few really 'hard hitting' questioners. I realise that those 'reading' the news are just presenters and largely (or wholly) delivering a script.
I think 'Mrs Merton' should have a go.

"I thought this was the appropriate moment to step out and give someone else a chance, before I'm so old my sentences make no lasagne."

Nooooooooooo

Sad news.

But who do you mean by Mrs Merton, 54321?
She's dead!

Oh.

He's only 52. I hope he doesn't retire. Interesting point about QT being made by an independent production company.

no, no no :( - he is the only reason I listen to the programme

Well that's no good. I'm always cheered when Eddie's doing PM.

He's lost an extraordinary amount of weight. It's almost impossible to recognise him as the same person nowadays. I've wondered for a while whether he's ill, but assume he would've said so if he was.

This simply cannot be and I refuse to accept it.

I only listen to PM because of Eddie. Don't go!

OP -YANBU

What about Jane Garvey and Richard Madely as replacements - or have I had too much sun?

Richard fucking Madeley?
Yes, you've had too much sun, run your wrists under the cold tap.

Jane Garvey and Richard Madeley? What the hell has Jane done to deserve that?!

Has anyone seen the sites which list all of the daft things RM has said? They're very funny.

@Philodox
Yes sadly the case.

Whoever takes over OUGHT to be someone to actually interview hard, so many are like being savaged by a sleeping guinea pig.

What was that computer battle reinactment tv series he hosted? He was hilarious in that and then they remade it with the hamster from Top Gear and ruined the whole thing. That's what PM is going to end up like.

Oh, lovely Eddie, what a shame. I have literally listened to him for decades - does anybody else remember Breakaway? Ostensibly a "travel magazine" programme tucked away early on a Sunday morning but he made it so much more than that.

Agree with PPs - Eddie Mair is phenomenal. He can be acerbic, funny, searching but is unfailingly calm and never balks at the deep question or sounds ridiculously empathetic (Jenny Murray take note). He's vastly well informed and very quick on his feet - whether it's links going down, fast developing news or monosyllabic interviewees. As for the mealy mouthed BBC apparatchik calling him "one of the best broadcasters of his generation" and "wishing him well for the future" - clearly she didn't realize he was one of the best ever and yet never had any programme crafted around his talents. I believe he refused to take a paycut during the BBC's attempts to sort out the gender pay balance, but he was earning around 300000 less than Claudia Winkelman - go figure - and might have thought the BBC could sort it out for themselves.

Jane Garvey and Anita Anand. Jane Garvey and James O'Brian. Jane Garvey and Katy Kaye. Jane Garvey and Christian Fraser.Jane Garvey and Ros Atkins.

Another Eddie Mair fan. His humour and his sensitivity really put him in the very top league of broadcasters. I haven't listened to PM for a few months now, but i have the fondest memories of listening to it with Eddie at the helm. It's never the same with Caroline Quinn or whatever her name is. Somehow, with Eddie, no matter how horrendous the news, he makes me feel like everything will be Ok in the end. I hope he continues broadcasting.