One of many reasons to never listen to Radio 2. Ever.
Writing about web page http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1879946,00.html
It’s a stupid radio station and I’ve always hated it, especially as they chose the two stupidest presenters for the prime time spots- the banality Terry Wogan and the nonentity Steve Wright, a barbaric breach in taste that I shall never forgive. Even just typing the names brings back bad memories of being stuck in my parents’ car, suffocating under a blanket of humdrum. So I was somehwat perversely pleased when leafing through The Guardian yesterday, as I read about the recent moronic monologues of Sarah Kennedy- it confirmed all that I previously thought about Radio 2 presenters. It really brought out that sweet, justified hate which boils in me every time I hear the jolly BBC Radio 2 jingle. Apparently, Kennedy described the recent media coverage on “size zero” models as an “insult” to “Japanese prisoners of war”. I’ll admit I didn’t hear the full programme, but still, in what kind of context could that be an even remotely acceptable thing to say?
Nice one, Kennedy.
26 Sep 2006 21:44
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[Skip to the latest comment]Gavin Alexander
The amount of registering and crap I have to go through just to read that article!
That throwaway remark (and it was a remark… two sentances that didn’t really explain what she was on about) shouldn’t really give an overview of the whole of Radio2. Ok you had bad experiences as a child and that’s likely to keep you away from it for life, but those programmes are pretty funny as stand alone ( I think…). I agree the jingles are a little outdated, I remember them myself from childhood.
Sarah Kennedy spends quite sometime in the early morning reviewing newstories and front pages. I’m sure she had a legitimate reason for the POW remark. One that is now lost in the Podcasts and only covered by journalists who want to cause a stir.
Hope Radio4 is more fun for you :)
27 Sep 2006, 00:21
Christopher Hinds
I’m old… I like Radio 2 and Radio 4. Terry Wogan isn’t my favourite but I find Jeremy Vine very interesting and Ken Bruce is kinda cool too though I could live without Popmaster (who couldn’t)
27 Sep 2006, 16:42
Gavin Alexander
Popmaster reminds me of many long hours and days in Easter holidays trying to get into revision but failing badly :(
27 Sep 2006, 22:32
Radio 4 is the best radio station I have ever come across, my radio is permanently set at 94.25. And as for calling it old…! Admittedly, the Archers is hardly bursting with the joys of youth (neither’s that totally unfunny programme Quote Unquote, which I had the misfortune to listen to today), but the radio station is full of more life than Radios 1,2,3 combined. (But then, having suffered Radio 2 trauma in my infant years I’m bound to say that…)
Jeremy Vine is interesting, although I’d still say Jeremy Young did that show better, and I still have a grudge against the Beeb for pushing him out (although yes, he was a tad old).
I’d still rather listen to little baby kittens screaming in pain than to Kennedy’s programme…
30 Sep 2006, 15:29
Gavin Alexander
Well it’s what I wake up to, even if it is a little crappy I admit. She did coin the phrase “White Van Man” though.
The Archer’s had some youff in it this week: That Cat fight in the marquee. And David is getting a little frisky, or will be soon.
Q/UQ is crap. Never go near it again.
The issue I have with R4, apart from being very slow sometimes and far too religious, is that it’s so quiet. So hard to hear sometimes.
01 Oct 2006, 13:48
”...is that it’s so quiet. So hard to hear sometimes”- That’s a great line :)
I get over that hurdle by blasting on something brash and upbeat after I’ve had enough of hearing R4’s church-like background stillness. And I far prefer listening online anyway, and being ultra-selective on my programme choice, thusly avoiding anything mentioning God in a positive way. But saying that, I do the same with Radios 1 and 2, so I actually do listen to them, but only to the more interesting programmes only aired in the depths of evening.
(Still, when listening live, it’s R4 all the way).
I actually had the misfortune to listen to Q/UQ on Monday, then was stuck in the car on the way to Warwick and listened to the repeat as well…
I shall never use the phrase “White Van Man” in the same way again.
02 Oct 2006, 12:18
Fuck the radio.
07 Oct 2006, 23:10
David
Ok I will focus my comment on Radio 2 only. Radio 2 IS good regardless of what anyone says. It tried to appeal to a mass-audience, which it does very well. Sure not everyone will like most or all of it, but that does not make it shit. Yes Steve Wright is awful. I CANNOT stand this fuckwit. Terry is an aquired taste and I never listen to him too. But Jeremy Vyne can be pretty damn good when he’s not coming across as a right-wing nut. Jonathon Ross is also very entertaining as are the comedy shows they have. Yes! There is comedy on Two too!
Radio 2 is a very good mid-way house in order to appeal to as many people as possible. Sure Wright is a twat, Popmaster is one of the stupidest quizes ever and sometimes the songs are bloody awful, but it is not the Radio 2 of 10-20 years ago. So give it another go. Listen to Jezaa and comedy at Saturday lunchtime, you may be surprised…
08 Oct 2006, 17:32
Brian Rhodes
Totally agree; Wogan is so bloody avuncular and jolly an completely clashes with my bad headache in early morning traffic, to such a degree that I fantasis about killing him quite frankly.
I just want Steve Wright to disappear. He really is a shit.
I just liste to mp3s now…as someone else said: Fuck the radio.
16 Oct 2006, 12:11
Fuck the fucking radio…I’m not going to give up on it quite yet, instead, I shall boycott it when the retards come out to play on the airwaves: and that means Steve Wright, Chris Moyles and the rest of the gimps given disgraceful amounts of money to make innocent and intelligent people like us want to fuck the radio.
Fuck the radio, maybe, but kill the radio presenters: was that hyperbole, or a death threat? Either way, my life is by no means endangered, so I remain duly undistrubed.
18 Oct 2006, 23:11
We’re all undistrubed Helen, in our own special way.
19 Oct 2006, 14:50
I am like so much more disturbed than you are.
26 Oct 2006, 22:46
Gavin Alexander
What do we get if we win the disturbed argument?
I must admit that I’m going off R2 again. Back to R4 which is just distressing.
Vine: I realised the other day that he spends about 50% of the programme telling you what’s coming up on the programme.
Wogan: Talks drivel really, the only highlight being Janet&John.
Wright: Ask Elvis. Legend.
27 Oct 2006, 11:46
He who wins the distrubed argument gets a lovely bunch of coconuts.
There is nothing distressing about going back to R4. In fact, a lack of R4 in ones life is distressing. My latest hate is R1 though: just had to sit through a long coach ride during which the maniac coach driver decided it would be a good idea to have the ‘official’ chart show blaring into my brain. The stupidity of the whole thing was astounding- disturbing, even. I think my current level of disturbance has reached an all-new high.
29 Oct 2006, 22:20
Ophelia
I have to listen to Radio two at work. I prefer Radio 4 but I’m in the minority. Jonathan Ross is rarely on on weekdays but I find him entertaining, Wogan is tolerable (apart from his sneering at the idea of global warming), Ken Bruce and Jeremy Vine are OK but Steve Wright is truly , ghastly. He thinks he is very ‘cool’ , talks like a twenty-something New Yorker, lies about his age (he is in his mid-fifties for God’s sake) and his constant use of Americanisms is really irritating. Worst of all though is the way he and his team fawn all over the guests and laugh hysterically at everything they say, even when nothing remotely funny has been said. Nauseating!
02 Mar 2007, 19:58
I always boycott Steve Wright- he’s a total moron. Jeremy Vine is by far the best thing on Radio 2- I can’t believe Wright was at one point heralded the ‘saviour of R2’. Sheer bad taste.
03 Mar 2007, 13:57
Simon Keeley
Er, Radio 2…well, Ken Bruce is 15 years behind and still calls The Kooks “The Cooks”. A man who tries to be Wogan with a hint of Ross and fails. Succeeding in sounding like a bearded Metalwork teacher, he seems to think by shouting out the name of his traffic information foil, Lynn Bowls, it should get a laugh. His spirit crushing morning show makes me pine for Radio Orwell and “Boogie Down With Dave Brown” (Ipswich Circa. 1981).
As for J. Vine, the smug, oh-so-caring lunchtime man. Would someone please ask him to leave.
01 Jul 2007, 13:44
Simon Keeley
Hang the DJ hang the Dj, hang the DJ….hang the DJ (s)
06 Jul 2007, 19:24
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