To think that Steve Wright makes way too much of Serious Jockin’ no bloody g!

[Bunnylady53]

I do like his show but honestly, what a fuss he makes about Serious Jockin’ on a Friday! It’s just tunes Steve, get over it!

I want to know why he’s on all week plus sundays , seriously is there no one else ?

He's still going!?! He was in in the afternoons when I was a teen!

Ken is the only thing woeth listening to. Radio 2 is awful

Also have to turn him off. I can't stand that awful electronic, falling whine-type 'jingle' thing he plays either.

I loathe him. And the whole serious jockin’ thing is basically sneering at people who do his job far better than he does, so is the mark of a loser.

While we're at it "Non-stop oldies" means back to back music. No inane chat or promotional shite in between the tracks.

He sounds bored I think.

I listened to an interview with Chris Moyles and James O Brien recently the other day and they speak of Steve Wright as though he is the Maradona of radio.

They'd do well to get in some fresh blood really. I don't really think it's great having all the old radio 1 DJs predictably shuffling into Radio 2 as though they're moving from infants to juniors. There must be other talent out there!

Greg James is the best thing on BBC radio right now.

I acccidentally tuned into this once - it was so bad I thought it was a parody. Just awful!

I actually like Steve Wright, Jeremy vine and love the Sunday love songs

I love radio 2. I also love drum and base and jungle and go raving, but radio 2 feels warm and comforting somehow. Rather weird on my part considering I'm only 31!

Hate Greg James, love zoe ball!

Just don’t google how much he gets paid for being rubbish....

It’s so old fashioned it’s like a parody radio show. He is Alan partridge

I like serious jockin'...

I'll tell you who I cannot listen to for more than a few seconds - and it pains me to say this, given she's a woman - and that's Zoe 'I can't say two words without giggling through them' Ball.

I never, ever thought I'd see the day when I prefer Chris 'can't continue a sentence without disappearing up fourteen cul de sacs' Evans, but here we are.

I quite like Steve Wright and all his radio stuff in general. I especially love the tunes on love songs and the 5pm closing tune to his afternoon show.
However I can’t stand with a passion serious jocking. The puns from somewhere who is far too good a personality to sink to that level. To the theme tune buzzing thing which goes right through me and gives me a headache. I hate having to drive after work in a Friday because I just want normal radio 2 and none of that silliness.
I really hope that they change the feature soon to something more palatable

But a million times better than Jeremy Fucking Vine.

Absolutely. Whoever thinks having someone doing gardening on the radio is a good idea?

I quite like a lot of the songs that Steve plays, but can't stand him. Whenever he's off and Craig Charles stands in for him, I always find myself thinking how very very much better a presenter Craig is.... but my musical tastes really don't correspond with his.

Therefore, if only they could keep the songs but swap Steve for Craig, I'd be happy.

Oh, and by the way, a 'factoid' is not a cutesy little way of saying the word 'fact' - it means something that is commonly believed to be a fact, but is actually NOT true; thus a factoid is the very opposite of a fact. By calling them 'factoids', Steve is suggesting that they aren't true when, in fact, I believe that they ARE supposed to be true. I would accept 'factlet'. You're welcome - rant over.

Absolutely. Whoever thinks having someone doing gardening on the radio is a good idea?

I actually like Jeremy, but I couldn't agree more about the gardening. Terry Walton seems like a genuinely really lovely man - and I'd be very happy for them to have him on in one of the 'Being Human' slots. But actually talking about gardening? For half an hour? EVERY Friday? On a news and current affairs programme? Dull doesn't begin to describe it.

What I cannot stand is those stupid, patronising little skits that Tim does to illustrate something extremely simple to understand. They make me very angry. If they're telling me that, owing to a new tax, something previously free will now cost £1, I don't have trouble comprehending that. I don't need to hear 100 pennies being poured jingling one by one into a pile, accompanied by a snatch of Pink Floyd's 'Money' (but carefully avoiding the section with the rude word in it) and then being told that THAT is in fact what the new £1 charge will be the equivalent of.

Only ever listen to this slot when it's Craig Charles filling in - million times better!

But don’t people text in to be like “driving to Wales this afternoon for a weekend away - serious drivinG” - if this is pre-recorded are they all just made up?

Radio 2 is hell on earth

I think prefacing your message with 'Love the show' is commonly understood to be the way to hugely increase your chances of having it read out on the show. It's a bit like when foreigners go to countries where bribery is the accepted way of 'fixing' things - they may not like it and find it very awkward to do, but accept that it's the price you have to pay for success.

I used to like the way Sarah Kennedy would have people making fun of it by wishing 'SWs to you!' (SW being shorthand for Steve Wright i.e. 'love the show').

I also remember on a few occasions where people said it when writing to Terry Wogan (thus most probably genuinely meant), and he would deride them and put them right that it was absolutely NOT the way to do things when writing to him!

There is in every generation someone who survives on tv or radio and you wonder why. Steve Wright is that person I think.

I switch off as soon as I hear his voice

He is fucking abysmal. PP who said it's ironic minus any irony is right. Even the theme tune that goes on and on sounds like a piss take.