Radio 2 in the afternoon - can we get rid of Steve Wright???

Radio 2 in the afternoon - can we get rid of Steve Wright???

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308mate

13,757 posts

221 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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dave_s13 said:
Also agree re. Chris "the c0nt" Evans....pity he's the pick of a bad bunch frown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTN__vUPXaI 

hehe

As pertinent now as it ever was.

I agree Wrighty is gettinga bit tiresome though. And it pains me to say it cause I used to love him when he was Radio 1.


gruffgriff

1,577 posts

242 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Stuismyname said:
Can we first get rid of Sarah Kennedy though? It's like they walked into a nursing home and put the first inmate they had onto radio, without her medication.
I believe she`s performing an important public service: I don`t have the strength to stick pins in my own arm that early in the day so, by resisting the temptation to choose a different station, I allow her amateurish, dis-jointed, gin related and confused ramblings (and the bl***y show tune) to inflict enough pain to keep me awake and get me up and out of ear-shot of the clock radio as quickly as poss.

Being directly compared to one`s stand-ins must be a worry and a risk to djs, but sad old `Writey` didn`t stand a chance against Radcliffe. Maconie is another `slayer` and I was surprised to be enjoying Simon Mayo recently too.

I`m also impressed Mark obviously has some sway on the choosing the of the play-list.

Sciroccology

29,908 posts

229 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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BigBen said:
bobthemonkey said:
Mark Radcliffe with either Emma Forbes or Lisa Tarbuk.
Or Mark Radcliffe with Lisa Riley
EFA

109 Bob

3,762 posts

217 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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I think Steve wright is the best one on there but I wish they'd get rid off Janie (self opinionated) Lee Grace.

Stuismyname

1,706 posts

236 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Baby Huey said:
I would happily round up the every presenter on Radio 2, send them off to Belsen, put them in a gas chamber and release the gas myself. All except Jeremy Vine, who would be singled out for special torture inflicted by me for many months, then he too would be for the chamber.
Pretty sure Belsen didn't have any gas chambers. I'm certain it doesn't now.

spaximus

4,230 posts

252 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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109 Bob said:
I think Steve wright is the best one on there but I wish they'd get rid off Janie (self opinionated) Lee Grace.
Totally agree, if ever there was a woman who has swallowed the whole "earthmother" bit it is her. she has to turn everything to green issues to ensure she has more radio time to peddel her opinions.


DippedHeadlights

419 posts

203 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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gruffgriff said:
Stuismyname said:
Can we first get rid of Sarah Kennedy though? It's like they walked into a nursing home and put the first inmate they had onto radio, without her medication.
I believe she`s performing an important public service: I don`t have the strength to stick pins in my own arm that early in the day so, by resisting the temptation to choose a different station, I allow her amateurish, dis-jointed, gin related and confused ramblings (and the bl***y show tune) to inflict enough pain to keep me awake and get me up and out of ear-shot of the clock radio as quickly as poss.
Totally agree with that - it's exactly what we do - I always though that some sort of gospel country and western would be the music most likely to get me out of bed and the radio turned off but that show tune... Kennedy is so bad she is the radio equivalent of the movie Plan 9 from outer space.

I must admit I do try and listen to Evans, yes he can be annoying at time but he really is a true professional. When my 10 year old was on the kids phone in bit the way Evans spoke to him and also kept the show on course was superb. Evans is of course also a petrol head thumbup

Agree with the original post, I also can't stand Steve Wright, he is so up himself, he needs to go.

sstein

6,249 posts

253 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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I really, really can't stand Steve Wright, and as for Janie Lee Grace!!! That woman makes you want to drive the car into the nearest wall just to break the stereo.

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Stuart

unrepentant

21,212 posts

255 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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One of my favourite ever Viz letters;

Dear Sir

Radio 2's Steve Wright only reads out letters from people who say how much they love him and his show. I know this because me and my mates write to him regularly to tell him we think he's a ccensoredt and he never reads our letters out.

Mark Edwards, Leek

GTO Scott

3,816 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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unrepentant said:
One of my favourite ever Viz letters;

Dear Sir

Radio 2's Steve Wright only reads out letters from people who say how much they love him and his show. I know this because me and my mates write to him regularly to tell him we think he's a ccensoredt and he never reads our letters out.

Mark Edwards, Leek
I thought of that letter too laugh

King Herald

23,501 posts

215 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Maxymillion said:
dave_s13 said:
The nature of my work means I have R2 on all day, which can be both good and bad. One of the low points is Steve Wright, I just think he's a to$$er.

Recently though Mark Radcliffe has been doing it and he is a properly funny bloke, as license payers we should be able to vote people off I reckon; Radcliffe would get mine for this slot!

Does anyone else share this veiw....??

ps...I would also happily "end" Moyles, the fat, unfunny eejit.
I have heard many people with the same view. Wright is an ignorant, self-satisfied tw@. He never plays any songs to their full length, laughs at his own appauling 'jokes' and interrupts guest. His mongoloid co-hosts just seem so damn pleased with themselves all the time too.
I used to listen to 'Steve Wright In The Afternoon' some 25 years ago at work, thought he was real funny, a little crazy, but still a laugh. I never realised he was still going, and if he is he must be clocking up the years now. Is it the same guy?

stockhatcher

4,424 posts

222 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Chris Evans used to have the best radio show bar none when he did radio 1 breakfast in the 90's, he really needs his sycophants around him to make his show good again, but that's not really r2 is it? leave off writey, he is the living embodiment of anondyne, nothing controversial, its all fluffy bunny rabbits, and real lemonade, if you want hard hitting, annoy mike tyson, its easy listening, laid back gentle humour, although i am sur mark radcliffe is better.

please don't diss moyles on r1, he can be very funny, he's a very good radio host, acerbic, a bit of a bd, sometimes controversial, which is exactly what steve writght is not, but you don't like him either ...? in summary, if you like none of the above - you are over 40, start listening to talksport for opinion on all sports but mostly fking football. rolleyes

forsure

2,118 posts

267 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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King Herald said:
Maxymillion said:
dave_s13 said:
The nature of my work means I have R2 on all day, which can be both good and bad. One of the low points is Steve Wright, I just think he's a to$$er.

Recently though Mark Radcliffe has been doing it and he is a properly funny bloke, as license payers we should be able to vote people off I reckon; Radcliffe would get mine for this slot!

Does anyone else share this veiw....??

ps...I would also happily "end" Moyles, the fat, unfunny eejit.
I have heard many people with the same view. Wright is an ignorant, self-satisfied tw@. He never plays any songs to their full length, laughs at his own appauling 'jokes' and interrupts guest. His mongoloid co-hosts just seem so damn pleased with themselves all the time too.
I used to listen to 'Steve Wright In The Afternoon' some 25 years ago at work, thought he was real funny, a little crazy, but still a laugh. I never realised he was still going, and if he is he must be clocking up the years now. Is it the same guy?
Same guy, in his mid-fifties now.

King Herald

23,501 posts

215 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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stockhatcher said:
Chris Evans used to have the best radio show bar none when he did radio 1 breakfast in the 90's, he really needs his sycophants around him to make his show good again, but that's not really r2 is it? leave off writey, he is the living embodiment of anondyne, nothing controversial, its all fluffy bunny rabbits, and real lemonade, if you want hard hitting, annoy mike tyson, its easy listening, laid back gentle humour, although i am sur mark radcliffe is better.

please don't diss moyles on r1, he can be very funny, he's a very good radio host, acerbic, a bit of a bd, sometimes controversial, which is exactly what steve writght is not, but you don't like him either ...? in summary, if you like none of the above - you are over 40, start listening to talksport for opinion on all sports but mostly fking football. rolleyes
I lived overseas for the whole of the nineties, but one thing I really missed was English radio. When I worked in Brunei for a year the Sultan had Radio Caroline piped in, which was a good way to get abreast of the music scene, for what it was worth.

I really like Moyles, makes me laugh, dry, droll, sharp, the lot. smile

dave_s13

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13,813 posts

268 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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stockhatcher said:
Chris Evans used to have the best radio show bar none when he did radio 1 breakfast in the 90's, he really needs his sycophants around him to make his show good again, but that's not really r2 is it? leave off writey, he is the living embodiment of anondyne, nothing controversial, its all fluffy bunny rabbits, and real lemonade, if you want hard hitting, annoy mike tyson, its easy listening, laid back gentle humour, although i am sur mark radcliffe is better.

please don't diss moyles on r1, he can be very funny, he's a very good radio host, acerbic, a bit of a bd, sometimes controversial, which is exactly what steve writght is not, but you don't like him either ...? in summary, if you like none of the above - you are over 40, start listening to talksport for opinion on all sports but mostly fking football. rolleyes
I'm 31 and have no interest in sport whatsoever.

Why not diss Moyles? I'm allowed to, I'm from Leeds so I can. And, this is the internet where people display random, groundless attacks on people they don't know, you to$$er biggrin

I honestly have never listened/viewed Moyles without thinking his humour was anything but puerile, shouty nonesense.

Anyway it seems my opinion is a fairly popular one. Radcliffe is just better than Wrighty, we don't "love the show" mate, change it or fk off IMO.

Another radio question; the recent listening figures were published for the BBC how do they gather data from the listening public as to who's listening to what, how do they find out??

Mactac

645 posts

192 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Wright is well past his sell by date, some might even suggest it passed some time ago.
lets not forget Jimmy Young also got the boot (good) only to be replaced in a show of precisely the same format, by budget Paxman..Vine

SW never made transition to TV too boring/ugly despite his pushy American Wifes efforts.
Simon bates never managed it either, in fact only a couple of that era did actually make it, Mayo springs to mind.


Radcliffe would make a great replacement, where do I sign?

dave_s13

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13,813 posts

268 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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Bear in mind my original post was an observation on the vast improvement over the regular daytime R2 slot not a general whinge about DJ's.

We would, actually, be much worse off without em!!

Mactac

645 posts

192 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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I quite agree, our radio at work has been on 2' for another week
otherwise its elsewhere from about Midday

colonel c

7,888 posts

238 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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The shame for me is that I can’t stand Mark Radcliffe’s voice. I wonder how Wright’s side kick Tim Smith would get along with Lisa Tarbuck on air?

The thing I really like about Chris Evans is, when his show starts, it’s time to switch to Radio 4 for PM.


mogul

14,980 posts

249 months

Tuesday 6th May 2008
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I've been doing quite a lot of work in the R2 studios recently and can only say from my limited but one on one contact with Steve Wright he's a very nice friendly person.

I sat with him for an hour or so the other week and had a good chat and laugh and he was as interested in what I did/was doing as I was in him and his job.

You've got to bear in mind he's a performer and the show is nothing more than that - a performance. Guests are rarely live, he works more hours than any other dj on R2 as he gets the best by recording and editing. Sure he's a bit confident and each to their own if you feel he's past it but the figures are there for all to see and he draws in the audiences day and day out so he must be doing something right.

Just my 2p worthwink