Show Diary - 16 December 2025: Strictly Finalists, Elf Stars and Aled Jones Light Up Radio 2

[TheSaviourisHere]

I really enjoy listening to Nat on a Sunday morning such an easy listen. However i am not a bit surprised they have already dropped the second hour of Radio 1 00s for Radio 1 10s. Just annoys me abit that they assume everyone who listens to Radio 1 was born in the 2010s. I dunno might just be old man 33yr old me showing my age? What do you guys think?

[BBCAaron]

6 hours ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

I really enjoy listening to Nat on a Sunday morning such an easy listen. However i am not a bit surprised they have already dropped the second hour of Radio 1 00s for Radio 1 10s. Just annoys me abit that they assume everyone who listens to Radio 1 was born in the 2010s. I dunno might just be old man 33yr old me showing my age? What do you guys think?

They haven’t assumed anything regarding listeners ages but I think with the 00s show 2 hours of music of artists that don’t hit the playlist and some of them rare request choices it feels odd to play some boy bands and pop acts of the 00s like Robbie Williams or Blue or the one hit wonders as they are becoming more radio 2 territory and 6 music for their forever shows. Think I referenced it the other week with their target audience under 30 it would make sense to have two hours of weekend do think two hours of songs between 13-23 wouldn’t suit the majority of the target demographic I’m not saying that songs that are that old have no place on the station. But as a listener you want that blend of new and old. I think that for daytime absolute and heart are better suited to targeting that music taste demographic.

[BBCAaron]

To me I think they made a good decision ditching the two hour 00s though If the station wants to continue with it I’d just move it into the weekend earlies slot or first hour of Sam & Danni’s breakfast show and go for more of a mix think having a typical playlist that could allow Nat O’Leary to develop it as more content driven and having a few features like Jordan & Matt did when they had that slot and having a blend of maybe having sunday as a day where the music sounds a lot calmer and Saturday having a more party vibe. 

I’d like it if the station consider ditching having Anthems and music heavy playlists slotted in daytime and had it say 

Radio 1 00’s 06:00-06:30

Radio 1 10’s 06:30-07:00

Sam & Danni 07:00-10:00

Nat O’Leary 10:00-13:00

And the rest… 

[Dan18F1]

9 hours ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

I really enjoy listening to Nat on a Sunday morning such an easy listen. However i am not a bit surprised they have already dropped the second hour of Radio 1 00s for Radio 1 10s. Just annoys me abit that they assume everyone who listens to Radio 1 was born in the 2010s. I dunno might just be old man 33yr old me showing my age? What do you guys think?

Honestly I think it might be you showing your age a bit, I’m sorry to say. I’m 20 so right in the middle of radio 1’s 15-24 target demographic and so I was born in 2002. I wasn’t actively listening to and enjoying music until the late 2000’s, early 2010’s so I think Radio 1 10’s sounds right on brand and the type of thing Radio 1 should be doing. Ever since it started I have thought that 00’s has sounded a bit old for the station. 

[Old Codger Fan]

R2's Pick Of The Pops should be hoovering-up more of the 00's, in any case .. Come to think of it, a 'Sounds Of The Noughties' show wouldn't go amiss, either.

[TheSaviourisHere]

My main issue is it gave Nats show an identity. I listened to her on Saturday covering Katie and it offered not a lot just plenty of shout outs. Hardly a must listen. Her Sunday show has always reminded me of Vernon/Coxy's Lie-In Show from years back(again showing my age) I think within 12 months if Nat is still on Sundays the 00s/10s will be dropped all together for a generic show

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

My main issue is it gave Nats show an identity. I listened to her on Saturday covering Katie and it offered not a lot just plenty of shout outs. Hardly a must listen. Her Sunday show has always reminded me of Vernon/Coxy's Lie-In Show from years back(again showing my age) I think within 12 months if Nat is still on Sundays the 00s/10s will be dropped all together for a generic show

Agreed with the likelihood of this but when she is given a generic show it can either make or brake your career. I understand that covering someone else’s show unless you have built up a large audience and a listeners like Scott did with his breakfast stint it would be barely a must listen. But maybe got to give Nat some chance.

[BBCAaron]

4 hours ago, Old Codger Fan said:

R2's Pick Of The Pops should be hoovering-up more of the 00's, in any case .. Come to think of it, a 'Sounds Of The Noughties' show wouldn't go amiss, either.

Agreed,with Rylan, Scott, Angela Griffin, DJ Spoony spinning 00s tracks on 2 it would be a better fit.

[BBCAaron]

12 hours ago, Dan18F1 said:

Honestly I think it might be you showing your age a bit, I’m sorry to say. I’m 20 so right in the middle of radio 1’s 15-24 target demographic and so I was born in 2002. I wasn’t actively listening to and enjoying music until the late 2000’s, early 2010’s so I think Radio 1 10’s sounds right on brand and the type of thing Radio 1 should be doing. Ever since it started I have thought that 00’s has sounded a bit old for the station. 

Agreed, this is how I see it as someone who is 23 if its an artist who still makes the playlist and is getting played on the station a rare throwback from them wouldn’t go amiss but the 1 hour of music from that era doesn’t work for the station as it’s good to still have some new tracks within an hour on air in daytime.

[TheSaviourisHere]

I think if Radio 1 do eventually drop 00s show then yes i can see Sounds of the 00s coming to Radio 2. I remeber when Absolute Radio used to do the 80s Hour every morning at 10 and it was so popular next thing you know the birth of sister station Absolute 80s

[DC]

The problem is with Radio 2 having the 00s stuff, is that they need to grow some balls so to speak. We can't have play it safe Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Will Young all the time. They need to play stuff like Pendulum, Linkin Park, Slipknot. Some of the popular dance and trance stuff too. This is how the 00s was and how we remember it. Otherwise if they don't it still suits Radio 1 better. 

[TheSaviourisHere]

4 minutes ago, DC said:

The problem is with Radio 2 having the 00s stuff, is that they need to grow some balls so to speak. We can't have play it safe Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Will Young all the time. They need to play stuff like Pendulum, Linkin Park, Slipknot. Some of the popular dance and trance stuff too. This is how the 00s was and how we remember it. Otherwise if they don't it still suits Radio 1 better. 

Yep when you look at early 00s it was a boom period for so many different genres of music. Loved early 00s

[DC]

1 minute ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

Yep when you look at early 00s it was a boom period for so many different genres of music. Loved early 00s

Golden era. Then I had 10 years of tracks that stapled my youth from about 1997 to 2007, so across 2 decades. When I listened to Radio 1 a lot, and they still played 90s stuff frequently till about 2002. I was still a fairly young person when 2010 came around at 22-23 years old. Thing is though, even being a young person through a lot of the 10's the music never had that same 'impact' I felt. It was mostly too much of the same artists, same production, built to be a flash in the pan. A sign of the times we lived and still live in, social media heavy. Nothing lasts. Not that there wernt good songs, but they never seemed to make an impact on the world as tracks did from say the previous 5 decades.

Doing a nostalgia show for the 10's I would find hard personally, because nothing instantly jumps out at me aside from Little Mix, Ed Sheeran or novelty records like Gangnam Style. Just what I see of it and I was involved in a fair chunk of 2010s.

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, DC said:

Golden era. Then I had 10 years of tracks that stapled my youth from about 1997 to 2007, so across 2 decades. When I listened to Radio 1 a lot, and they still played 90s stuff frequently till about 2002. I was still a fairly young person when 2010 came around at 22-23 years old. Thing is though, even being a young person through a lot of the 10's the music never had that same 'impact' I felt. It was mostly too much of the same artists, same production, built to be a flash in the pan. A sign of the times we lived and still live in, social media heavy. Nothing lasts. Not that there wernt good songs, but they never seemed to make an impact on the world as tracks did from say the previous 5 decades.

Doing a nostalgia show for the 10's I would find hard personally, because nothing instantly jumps out at me aside from Little Mix, Ed Sheeran or novelty records like Gangnam Style. Just what I see of it and I was involved in a fair chunk of 2010s.

That was true for the charts like 2015 number ones lasted months and it became the same names that dominated it with Drake, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grade and Calvin Harris. I think there amongst a heavy single and less project heavy decade there were some quality albums and projects. 

I think theres that thing amongst the mainstream it seems to be over-dominated now with that continue set of artists that left me unbothered with checking the official charts and following who’s in the top ten. But if you want to put the effort can put the effort to explore individual taste.

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

Yep when you look at early 00s it was a boom period for so many different genres of music. Loved early 00s

I think 10s had the rebirth of grime, then scope of UK rap stuff like EDM, dubstep, afrobeat and k-pop and stuff like that. Where some of the sub-genres seem more niche and only attracting a certain demographic and audience.

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, TheSaviourisHere said:

I think if Radio 1 do eventually drop 00s show then yes i can see Sounds of the 00s coming to Radio 2. I remeber when Absolute Radio used to do the 80s Hour every morning at 10 and it was so popular next thing you know the birth of sister station Absolute 80s

Think in 4-5 years time it might launch and suspect that in eary 2030s Radio 2 may ditch sound of the 60s potentially.

[BBCAaron]

1 hour ago, DC said:

The problem is with Radio 2 having the 00s stuff, is that they need to grow some balls so to speak. We can't have play it safe Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Will Young all the time. They need to play stuff like Pendulum, Linkin Park, Slipknot. Some of the popular dance and trance stuff too. This is how the 00s was and how we remember it. Otherwise if they don't it still suits Radio 1 better. 

I think that between 6 Music and Radio 2 they can definately focus on playing and spinning some of the decade like they are I mean I could imagine Radio 6 playing slipknot from time to time to maybe some of the dance in rave forever some are already in indie forever with the indie music like The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs but don’t think that any station in the BBC needs a regular committal to playing set hours of a selected decade in their schedule. That said with Dance if they hadn’t scrapped Ana Matronic’s Dance Devotion and continued with a dance themed show they wouldn’t have a issue with the dance genre and think that gives too much weight for Charlie Hedges to pick up a mix of the genre on Saturday afternoons

[DC]

10 minutes ago, BBCAaron said:

Think in 4-5 years time it might launch and suspect that in eary 2030s Radio 2 may ditch sound of the 60s potentially.

I can see that, but it depends if there's anyone left alive to moan. People are living longer now. It won't happen but there needs to be a 'Radio 3' that rivals smooth, playing everything pre 1990. Radio 2 has too much of an age range on it's plate.

[BBCAaron]

I never see this happening but think maybe for some of BBC Radio’s archive they make some of that responsibility of the content rights of BBC Studios that could sell its archive programming to third party and commercial networks including likes of Boom radio if they wanted to get access to the rights of some of it’s older content to solve this problem. I think that if they did a radio 2 extra as people want it it would just end up being Radio 4 Extra in terms of dishing out repeats. 

I see when it gets past time when Tony Blackburn, Paul Gamboccini and Johnnie Walker leave the station I think there won’t be anyone of the current intake of presenters that the elder listeners would listen to presenting a show that focus on that era that by 2030 will be seventy years old. I think the BBC inevitably needs to make difficult decisions.

[Old Codger Fan]

16 hours ago, DC said:

I can see that, but it depends if there's anyone left alive to moan. People are living longer now. It won't happen but there needs to be a 'Radio 3' that rivals smooth, playing everything pre 1990. Radio 2 has too much of an age range on it's plate.

Even so, I'd also happily listen to Mark Lamarr doing 'Sounds Of The 50's' in some graveyard hour ..