Old Codger Fan

Maybe they don't all want to be GANG-Stas, after all.

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I have great respect for the man ... But Bob Harris is a great choice to take over Sounds Of The 70's (and Shaun Keavney is an interesting choice to take over the Rock Show!).

Nicky Campbell before that - which wasn't too shabby, either.

MON 6am 5Live Breakfast 7am Chris Evans - Virgin 9am Greg James - R1 10am Vernon Kay - R2 11am James O Brien - LBC 12noon Jeremy Vine - R2 2pm Matt & Mollie - R1 3pm Jane & Fi/ John Piennar - Times 5pm Simon Mayo - Greatest Hits 6.30pm Comedy - R4/ R4 Extra 7pm Danielle Perry - Absolute 8pm Huw Stephens - Radio Wales 9pm Blues - R2 10pm Riley & Coe - 6Music 11pm Night Tracks - R3 11.30pm Comedy - R4 Extra/ R4 TUES - AS MON - EXCEPT: 8pm Sian Eleri - R1 9pm Jazz - R2 WED - AS MON - EXCEPT: 8pm Future Pop - R1 9pm Folk - R2 THURS - AS MON - EXCEPT: 12noon Adrian Chiles - 5Live (Back to Jeremy Vine, R2 at 1pm) 6pm-7pm Huw Stephens 'Round Table' - 6Music 8pm Jo Whiley - R2 9pm Country - R2 FRI - AS MON - EXCEPT: 12noon Adrian Chiles - 5Live 1pm Ellis & John - 5Live 2pm Craig Charles - 6Music 4pm Official Chart - R1 6pm Requests - R2 7pm Majestic - Kiss 9pm Indie - 6Music 10pm Nick Abbot - LBC SAT: 7am 60's - R2 8am Radcliffe & Maconie - 6Music 10am Rajesh Ranganathan - R2 12.30pm Comedy - R4 1pm Pick Of The Pops - R2 3pm Whoever's doing this now! - R1 4pm Sound Of Cinema - R3 5pm Sport - World Service/ 5 Live/ 5 Live Sports Extra 6pm Stateside - Planet Rock 7pm Craig Charles - 6Music 9pm 80's - R2 10pm Nick Abbot - LBC SUN 7am Classic FM Breakfast 8am Radcliffe & Maconie 10am Desert Island Discs/ Reunion etc - R4 11am Desert Island Discs - R4 Extra 12noon Cerys Matthews - 6Music 1pm Guy Garvey - 6Music 2pm David Rodigan - Radio 1 Xtra 3pm Whoever's doing this now! - R1 4pm 70's - R2 5pm Charts - Capital 6pm Charts 'First Look' - R1 7pm 'My Planet Rocks' - Planet Rock 8pm Chilled - R1 9pm Paul Gambaccini - R2 10pm Comedy - R4 Extra

It's a big 'No' from me (Israel-Palestine). No further comments.

Indeed - many of those same soothsayers were predicting the rise & rise of Jordon North on R1, too!

Reading through this thread, I don't feel quite so alone now, in thinking that Scott Mills on R2 is not a good 'fit' (even less so than on R5). I can't quite explain why this is so - I just know it to be so.

Practically speaking, Riley & Coe on 6Music is the answer to that problem - but I get your overall point.

Radio 1 generation meaning?? Today's 10-30 yr-olds? I doubt it. They'll still know Pete Tong though, because he is rhyming slang!

It's got more of a Fri/ Sat feeling to it, for me. But there's nothing inherently wrong with the show.

Not a fan of Jack Saunders, but ... This is a marked improvement over Clara Amfo (almost anything would have been) - And it's also better than what JS was doing in his previous slot - He's definitely been listening back to Zane Lowe, and drawing lessons from that.

Bruno Brookes was really good at that, yes .. and he needed to be, because he was up against David Jensen on Capital.

I notice on BBC Sounds that Matt & Mollie's 23/03/24 show (following Danny's) was titled, "A Short History Of Cringe".

Alan Freeman - 1989 - Saturday Rock Show. Then branched out into Andy Kershaw, Johnnie Walker, John Peel, Tommy Vance, Bob Harris and many more. My family always told me that I would "grow out of" all that noisy rubbish. It was therefore incomprehensible to me when Matthew Bannister set about culling most of the old guard, as that was proof-positive that some of us never grow out of it.

In a word, unremarkable.

That would be the smartest solution.

Sudden departure of Graham Norton at weekends has led to my sudden departure from listening at weekends. They're not even trying to replace it as a 'Main Attraction' slot, at this point. Thank goodness for the imminent arrival of Romesh Ranganathan at R2!

Classic case of the whole being less than the sum of it's parts. See also Simon Mayo + Jo Whiley.

Scott Solo on R2 sounds all wrong to me - so it could hardly be worse. Each to his own, I know.

This is what should have happened, in the first place. Better late than pregnant, I suppose.

Much enjoyed Scott on R1 - But sounds all wrong on R2, especially in light of who he replaced.

Whisper it, but .. Scott still isn't an adequate replacement

Shocker. 69 is nothing, these days.

Forgive me if this has been answered already, elsewhere. Just something I'm curious about. When they 'extend' the actual record into an 'instrumental section' (to talk over, afterwards), how is this done? 1/ With their own 'vocal-removing' technology? 2/ By getting cover bands to make something that will sound very similar? 3/ By receiving extra tracks from the record companies, for that purpose? 4/ By clipping instrumental parts from the record - or a 'B-Side'/ '12"' type alternate version of it?? Whatever the answer, I think there's an over-reliance on it - but that's a different topic!!