Sweet girl; ghastly DJ but not as bad as Sarah Cox - together they are stunningly awful.

Agreed, sweet girl but not a fan on radio.
I hear Scott Mills is getting breakfast, Trevor Nelson getting afternoons.
Mills isn't bad but preferred him on Radio 1.

Sadly Radio 2 will never return to the station it used to be.

Yes I do sometimes wonder, as with music, whether the changing world no longer wants or needs DJ's who care about good music or talk about depth and balance or bother to entertain. Perhaps people just want soothing dross. Very few seem to listen to radio anymore. Haven't podcasts taken over? And does anybody want mass appeal music? Adequate specialist wall paper seems fine. Bland DJs (Scott Mills is fine but bland).

Radio is a spent medium. Mainly because they employ people who don't have clue about good radio. As a kid Radio 1 was on all the time. Excellent broadcasters from Simon Bates and Steve Wright to John Peel and Johnny Walker. And I don't forget A King in New York.

In the era of mass podcasting to large numbers never has Radio 5 Live been more of a spent medium.

The output on there is garbage personified.

In the 1970's and 1980's nearly all Radio 1 presenters were household names and couldn't walk down the street anywhere in the UK without being recognised and possibly mobbed in some instances. Now just about the lot of them wouldn't even be recognised by many of their own neighbours in the same road.

As for Zoe Ball, nice enough person, comes from good stock with a delightful father like she has who many my age have deeply fond memories of, but that vast BBC salary, why and how?! Would she really be worth that in the commercial sector, I very much doubt it.

Rich wrote:
In the era of mass podcasting to large numbers never has Radio 5 Live been more of a spent medium.

The output on there is garbage personified.

In the 1970's and 1980's nearly all Radio 1 presenters were household names and couldn't walk down the street anywhere in the UK without being recognised and possibly mobbed in some instances. Now just about the lot of them wouldn't even be recognised by many of their own neighbours in the same road.

As for Zoe Ball, nice enough person, comes from good stock with a delightful father like she has who many my age have deeply fond memories of, but that vast BBC salary, why and how?! Would she really be worth that in the commercial sector, I very much doubt it. She does have the best parents in the world.

… or Spotify playlists. The number of kids I see, while walking my dog in the local, busy (with students) park, wearing big, bulky headphones, is astounding. I haven’t asked any of them but the assumption must be that they’re listening to their own Spotify playlists, rather than wasting data listening to Zoe Ball or Scott Mills. I rather like Sarah Cox, especially in her TV work (though I’m guessing your dislike for anyone hailing from north of Watford - especially the ‘Ginger, porridge-munching’ Scottish folk, plays a part in that)