HA ! Did anyone just hear John Humphries being put in his place......brilliant

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He is chatting to a thalidamide spokesman

I didn't, but sometimes he could really do with just being told to shut up hectoring- so good!

Oh good! What happened? Will be checking it out on iPlayer ASAP!

Oh damn I missed that because I'd already sworn at him and hurled myself out of bed thanks to his idiotic interruptions in the GCSE English discussion. My first words most mornings are "In the name of God Humphreys shut the fuck up!" WHY don't they retire him?

He is an arrogant clumsy twat, he is just rude to the speakers and bullies them up a corner, I want to flick him really hard on the forehead

And the worst thing about it is that he bullies to no purpose whatsoever, because his questions are thoughtless and ill-informed and do nothing at all to coax a more informative response (often they just cut off that response).

When he is interviewing a wrongdoing politician, banker, whatever, he lets them off the hook by failing to give them the space in which they can speak fully and be properly held to account. When he is interviewing an expert, he just squashes the opportunity for us to learn from them.

And it isn't good for me that seething should be my first activity of the day.

Oatybeatie sore much more eloquently put than me , I am sooo happy to find someone else who feels the same as me. I dislike him so much that I have to listen so I can have a good rant.

How many "so"s can I fit in one post

I had to stop listening in the morning as he wound me up so much. Final thing was him doing a bizarrely aggressive interview with the mother of a man killed in an IRA attack, I mean WTF, of all the people to badger and interrupt rudely.
I can't bear to listen- how was he put in his place, can you tell us?

Glad it's not just me that shouts at the radio at him! I've moved over to 6 Music now but still listen to Today when in the car going to work. I can arrive quite wound up - he really should retire.

Oh I wish I had heard this. He pissed me off so much on the education debates, insisting that because the 11+ had made him, nobody could argue against current forms of testing. Grrrrr but now I am just switching off the minute he comes on.

Radio 3, everybody. Soothing and invigorating in the morning in equal measure.

I don't put Radio 4 on until 9am! Eddie Mair is a much more effective interviewer! No less tough and rigorous, just a much better manner.

Evan Davies, Justin Webb & Sarah Montague are far better than Humphries or Naughtie. They actually listen and respond. I think Naughtie might actually have mild memory loss - he sounds disorientated, though he's only 61. I feel embarrassed for him when I hear him floundering.

So agree time for Naughtie and Humphries to go...

Always loathed Humphries and Naughtie makes even a good news story sound thoroughly depressing...

Evan Davies manages to be funny, intelligent, thorough, interesting and serious all at the same time.