[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?