[Closed] Radio (middle aged content)

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It started with that ginger ball bag though ,listening to his moronic drivel first thing in the morning was sending me phsychotic 😆

On hindsight I realise I have always turned off that pubic hair headed numpty also.

I commute an hour each way in the car - first 30-40 minutes of R4 for news and the R2 Breakfast show. On way home I refuse to switch to R2 until 5pm as Wright is such an arse and can't understand why he's still on the radio.

Radio is only ever on one of;
Planet Rock
Radio 3
Radio 4
Five Live Sports Extra (for TMS)

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Radio 4 or Classic FM if The Archers comes on.
(There’ll be a few gasps at this, I’m sure).

Radio 2 is utter drivel.

Radio 2 was my station of choice for a few years, now apart from pop master, I can't stand it.
Absolute Classic Rock all day long. Christian O'Connell breakfast show is pretty entertaining.

I like the Ken Bruce show. I am now officially old. Chris Evans is too much to stand though.

Also like the Mayo evening show.

Steve Wright is a nob and is too dated even for Radio 2.

Jeremy Vine and his assorted collection of angry pensioners and van drivers can take a hike . As can Sounds of the 60s and whatever quasi-religious shite Clare Balding is doing whenever I'm driving to the Lakes.

Planet Rock is good but the adverts are annoying. The music is great though.

Radio 2 is okay and Simon Mayo's Drivetime is fantastic.

I don't think your life is over ..just a phase you are going through ..
Personally I can't stand the "up my own arse " prattle from any DJ/ host ..and haven't listened to radio for at least 5 years ..

Radio 4.
Have spent the last 9 months or so listening, as my time spent driving g has increased considerably. Some great programmes on, finding it hard to like the Archers, and I definitely draw the line at GQT, but Jack Dee makes up for most of that. They do the news very well.

I'm preferring Radio 4 over Radio 2 at times!

Radio 2 needs to weed out the ex-Radio 1 dead wood though.

I don't even know what's going on with Radio 1. The stuff is garbage. I know I sound like my parents, but really what the hell are kids listening to now? It's all auto-tuned crap.

Other than that I spend most the time in the car hitting the next radio station button, getting frustrated with the independents, and cycling back.

Resorted to using the FM transmitter to play stuff from the phone, Spotify etc (annoyingly no inputs on my Civic, unless I pull the car apart to fit one).

Radio 2 for popmaster then switch over to 6.

I commute an hour each way in the car - first 30-40 minutes of R4 for news and the R2 Breakfast show. On way home I refuse to switch to R2 until 5pm as Wright is such an arse and can't understand why he's still on the radio.

Me too. I couldn't find a suitable non-annoying alternative to Wright so its Spotify until pm on Radio 4

Having listened to more of it, it's ok, I do hate it.

Have relocated elsewhere in the house now so I can't hear it!

🙂

Am i the only one to defend a few of the older djs, Steves show i like as well as Ken,Simon, Jo, Mark, the funk guy from corrie, the seventies coke guy show and lisa
However the ginger loud guy, vanessa or cluadia should all be stuck in a field with horses
Almost forgot the c4 jumpsuit one with the strange mouth

6 Music
Radio 2
Absolute
Planet Rock

Flick between any of the above

I bypassed radio 2 and went straight to R4.

BBC 4 for the morning news then a mix of:

Audiophile Jazz
Deep Vibes
Linn Classical
Nuestro Flamenco
BBC 6
Soma FM Groove Salad
Linn Jazz
Linn Radio
Naim Radio 320k
Soma FM Drone Zone
Soundart Radio 102
Dewtone Radio

All on interwebz.

Just had to log back in again, which is a bit like Radio 2 innit.
Turn the radio on, scroll a bit find something akin to pealing wallpaper off a ceiling and mentally “log in” to drivel.

The only R2 shows worth tightening your incontinence pants to are Simon Mayo (but you can silence his lapdog sidekick up by forcing his head down his pants) and Bob Harris Country, the Soul and Funk show is interesting, but I still tune into Pete Tong, Dave Pearce and Trevor Nelson.
There are a few nuggets tucked away but we’re all in bed or watching BBC4 when they’re on.

I reckon it’s overdue for a refresh, the programming schedules are too skewed toward blandness and beige but they do reflect the backward looking profiling the BBC use as a base for “ratings”

*Steve Wright is still a prick

Totally agree. I cannot stand the man. Banned in all OAB cars.

Steve Wright is a nob and is too dated even for Radio 2.

Just listening to Nick Cave here - on Radio 3!

Every time Wright says "we're doing some serious jockin'" somewhere, a puppy dies. He is 100% dick tonic.

R4 and 6M for me.

I basically use the iplayer app and download the best shows from 6music and the occasional Radio 1 and 2 shows, but combo of 6music and podcasts played from phone via head unit is the way forwards for me.

BIT when doing site work I used to fire the nail gun at the radio when Jeremy Vine was on....

I don't even know what's going on with Radio 1. The stuff is garbage. I know I sound like my parents, but really what the hell are kids listening to now? It's all auto-tuned crap.

6 or 4, only ever 2 if Craig Charles on.
'BIG show' ' serious jock'in' Steve you're a massive ....

Of the 100s of stations you get i only go between:

absolute / absolute 90s
planet rock
cool fm(local)
george fm (nz)

All these folk on here giving Steve a kicking but no mention of simo mayo and his friday minah minah then posh kids speaking so fluently at 7 whilst being driven in the bmw to centre parcs or their second home in the Welsh valleys for the weekend, i could give that a miss

I have been listening to Today on R4 for a while. I'm not sure why, really. I don't read the Daily Mail or have any interest in what Nigel Farage is doing.

Radio 4 or MP3 player but I never update the playlist so it does get boarding. Not found a decent radio station on FM. Xfm was good back in about 2003 or so but became like every other once it was bought out. Radio 1 has always been crap except for specific programs late in the evening. Every local radio station is pretty much a capital FM clone.

I gave radio 2 a listen again after a brexit news blackout.
Tuned in for the excellent Pop Master but was soon reminded how angsty music is these days.
It’s all black and white videos of someone being miserable in the rain.

6 Music's Keaveny breakfast show can be a giggle until you get bored of the same old routines. His intros for Matt Everett are sometimes v. funny.

Radio 1 for B. Traits show
Radio 1 for Essential mix
Radio 3 for Late Junction
Radio 4 for when i'm feeling dumb and need a brain boost
Radio 6 for pretty much everything else
And a mix of Radio Scotland (out of doors especially)

All usually downloaded to the iPlayer app for listening when i want.

If at home i'll ask alexa forJames O'Brien on LBC for good measure for when i feel like uttering profanities at the phone in discussions (are people really that uneducated/thick?)

Vanessa's awful, Evans is mega, Ken's awful, Vine is good, Wright's awful, Mayo's ok. I like Radcliffe's folk show, Whiley, Lisa Tarbuck and Trev Nelson.

R6 I like for the music but Keaveny gets right on my tits and Lamacq's a bit charisma-light.

Still can’t accept that I’m in the R2 demographic so my radio habits are largely confined to:

- R4 70%
- Kiss / Capital Radio 20%
- LBC 10% ( or less if James O’Brien comes on - at which point I turn off straight away)

I can’t believe that Op Yewtree hasn’t knocked on Wright’s door yet. I live in hope.

Radio 2 is becoming MrsEd's go to but it annoys me as most of the DJs are tits and sometimes you get about two or three great tunes, but then a load of garbage from the 70s and 80s that everyone forgot for good reason

I want radio music stations with lots of music and minimal chat, not too much to ask is it? DJs who are supposedly knowledgeable about music I spot talking opinionated bullocks

Had to drive from my house in leafy Surrey down to the New Forest for a spa weekend .
Downloaded some Danny Baker for the journey.
Still as good as ever.
He shall be our companion for future car journeys.
In the shop we listen to Richard Searling on Radio Manchester.
The I player is a wonderful thing.
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SW is hardly a "prick". A bit Mrs Brown Boys maybe:-)

I just flick randomly depending on mood, as probably most do. That lass that does BBC Leeds Breakfast though, gaarghhh.

"ONE YEAR OUT!"
Ken Bruce fan club member here. 🙂
I laugh every time .
I drive to work most mornings with Vanessa .
Won't have a bad word said against her .
Signed middle aged man.xx

DJs who are supposedly knowledgeable about music I spot talking opinionated bullocks

I just can't get enough of "you've got the love" by "the source feat. candi station". I've only listened to it every day since 1989 but just can't live without it it's my favourite.

For years it's been R4 weekdays, 5 Live weekends. Now I've finally got into internet radio my heads exploded with the choice. Romanian hip-hop anyone?

Like a lot of people I was listening to R1 as a kid but got board with it as I got into 90s dance music. So the only radio I listened to we're Manchester's Kiss fm and Stu Allen's show on Key 103 ( which I could only pick up in the attic, being quite a bit further north from Manchester :-))
Then it was on to daytime R2 or 5 live.
Then I discovered R4. And then 6 music after Radcliffe and Maconie moved from their R2 evening show.
So it's just R4 and 6 music now. Oh and R1 on Friday evening for some banging tunes.

Radio 2 was great, circa 1997-2010

Mark&lard daytime, Jonathan Ross on a Saturday morning
The russel brand show was genius.
And the station featured occasional input from mark lamarr of a 1960's freak beat style.

I still enjoy listening to Jeremy vine, even though I feel that he's not spending enough time seeking out new music. The playlist seems more perfunctory than passionate.

Speaking of playlists, why does it take so long for the name of the band/ song to appear as 'now playing'?

They've drawn up the playlist well before the shows have aired, surely they can sync things up better?
Sloppy!

Radio 4 for comedy, documentaries and current affairs
6 Music for, er, music

And, of a Sunday evening when I'm cooking the roast...

Heart 80s. Yeah, bite me 🙂

It's jobs for life at the BBC. The likes of Johnnie Walker and Tony Blackburn FFS should have been [s]taken out and shot[/s] sacked when they were made obsolete in 1977.

I wish 6 music was better. Play a song, then spend 10 minutes interviewing someone from an obscure band about how they made some obscure track, play another song, tell me all about the obscure record label.. oh yah, we're so [i]into[/i] music here.. **** off.. just play the damn stuff and shut up.

Why have someone talking between music?

My listening is as below
Radio 4
Spotify
Podcasts
Audiobooks
CD/Vinyl

Finally got enough data and set the phone up to use streaming in car.

Using Google to play Amazon Music in Android Auto sort of works, but there's a significant communication barrier between Google and Alexa 🙂

Radio 4
Radio 3
used to like 6 music, but not enough music.

Linn Jazz is an excellent suggestion too.

If you know nothing about Classical music, then Radio 3 is, believe it or not, very open and accessible - a real education. Classic FM much less so. I'm serious. You won't learn about music listening to CFM.

redmex - Member
Am i the only one to defend a few of the older djs, Steves show i like as well as Ken,Simon, Jo, Mark, the funk guy from corrie, the seventies coke guy show and lisa
However the ginger loud guy, vanessa or cluadia should all be stuck in a field with horses
Almost forgot the c4 jumpsuit one with the strange mouth

Been working from home lately so have the radio on. Don’t mind Steve Wright at all, not changed since I last heard him about 20 years ago mind, but inoffensive and some good music.
When at school we won an area “make your own radio programme” and the prize was a visit to the bbc to visit a DJ. We met Steve Wright and he had loads of time for us even taking us to the canteen for some tea.

Why is it that all radio stations have a daytime play list of circa 10 to 15 tracks? They're all as bad as each other.

Depends what I'm doing as to which station I choose. Power tools mean no R4, outside work means I prefer listening to nature than radio presenters who like the sound of their own voice too much and repeated play lists.

If I do ever meet the red top tabloid radio buffoon that is Jeremy Vine, I shall shake him warmly by the throat, until he is cold.

I understand Steve Wright was replaced some time ago with a robot. This is why he's exactly the same now as he was 30 years ago, and I assume will still be there, still doing the same show, long after we're all dead.

Jeremy Vine was the reason for my flat out insistence, when my other half was buying us a car 5 years ago, that it have DAB. I guess I'm not the only one, in which case he should be thanked for his contribution to the advancement of digital radio. As above I've always thought of him as a sort of human copy of the daily mail.

6 and 4 here.

Whilst we’re still on about Radio 2, it does seem rather 70’s Male dominated presenter wise during the day dunnit ..

Breakfast shouty - male
Mid morning M&S Slot - male
Lunchtime Tabloid Gossip monger - male
Afternoon tartan rug, tea and a shortcake biscuit slot - male
Early evening “thank god works finished” slot - male
Tea time “no ones listening except muso’s” - male

It’s only before Shouty Car driver and after Muso hour do any Women feature on the programme slots.

I might write to my MP about that ..

I'm also passing through the radio 2 zone. Still like Ken and Lisa but I miss Terry.

My new middle aged radio is the local version. West Sound, not uncommon to have The Stranglers, Blondie, Elvis Costello, REM , The Smiths all before breakfast. I really never saw myself listening to West Sound as the memory of it was cringe worthy.

Online its Radio Paradise all the way interspersed with a bit of KEXP.

Ive got Steve on just now bit like ronseal you know what you get but is he as offensive as so many on this thread think not to me
Mike read or mike smith noel edmunds simon bates mark goody 10x worse than steve on my ears

YoKaiser - Member
I'm also passing through the radio 2 zone. Still like Ken and Lisa but I miss Terry.

My new middle aged radio is the local version. West Sound

Another D&G radio fanboy.....

Alive radio play some good stuff occasionally but the the chat!!!

Bit of CFM

DAB radios in both car and van are tuned to:
R4
R4extra
R6M
Planet Rock
...and then either downloaded music on mine (or her) phones, audio books, or comedy/ comedy radio series. If I can be arsed then very soon another options will be the 700+ albums I've spent the last few months ripping into FLAC.

Radio 4 is on in our kitchen pretty much 24/7

Where else do you gain information on random stuff like the history of sweetcorn or 1950's trouser fastenings, etc etc. This sort of thing interspersed with news (PM - Eddie Mair fangirl klaxon) and a smattering of pretty decent comedy programming?

Although it will never be quite as brilliant since the death of Steve Hewlett 🙁

For those of you that think Steve Wright hasn't changed a bit in 30 odd years.....
THEN
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Simon Mayo usually good, as is Craig Charles when Steve Wright is off for liposuction. Jo Whiley from 9pm and usually listen to Mark Radcliffe on Wednesday, or on R6.

Don’t know why Steve Wright is still there. “Love the show!”, FFS. Never come across anyone who needs his ego massaged quite as much as him.

I too fear I'm getting old, thinking Radio 2 is quite listenable, at least at certain times of day. Ken's alright; everything on Friday and Saturday nights is great, and Simon Mayo's dependable.

Jeremony Vine is just awful though, and the whole shift to shouty Jeremy Kyle type talkshow around midday is appalling.

I wish 6 music was better. Play a song, then spend 10 minutes interviewing someone from an obscure band about how they made some obscure track, play another song, tell me all about the obscure record label.. oh yah, we're so into music here.. * off.. just play the damn stuff and shut up.