davertfnewman Posted March 30 Posted March 30 @johnnyboy - used to love Kisstory when we had it on in the last office I worked at. More of a vintage than standard Kiss. @Fog Dude - my grandad was similar, always listening to Radio WM in the kitchen and quoting Ed Doolan on all sorts of legal matters. @Rossman - yeah, still the home of the No Repeat Guarantee, but as you said, I love Erase/Rewind by the Cardigans but have heard it more times in the last six weeks than I did when it was in the charts. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted March 30 Members Posted March 30 42 minutes ago, Fog Dude said: I made full use of Radio 5 commentaries for football matches I couldn't watch, but nowadays I generally either go to the pub or (more likely) just follow text updates online But there's still something so wonderful about listening to football on the radio isn't there? My youngest thought I was mental when she couldn't watch a recent Spurs match and I said "listen to it on the radio" and she balked at it and ended up loving it. Some of my favourite memories are of being out with my Dad on a Saturday and going to Dixons for half time scores and then being in the car and listening to Capital Gold 1548 for the second half/final knockings. Genuinely thrilling way to find out the scores. I still maintain that as awful as he has got in the last 20 years on TV, Jonathan Pearce was a genuinely fantastic radio commentator, and there is a real art to it that is completely different to TV. Quote
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted March 30 Posted March 30 I only ever listened to radio on Weekends for footy and the top 40 though the now departed local station Radio City My mum however loves listening to Smooth Relax when she’s cooking or ironing in the kitchen which just plays non stop music without any DJ talking inbetween Quote
davertfnewman Posted March 31 Posted March 31 I'm not a football fan but I would go out of my way to listen to Rock n Roll Football on Absolute when Rob Beckett used to be on it, it was a really fun show. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted March 31 Paid Members Posted March 31 My mum would be spinning in his grave at Scott Mills' fall from grace. She was never up in the morning for the breakfast show, but loved his afternoon show. One of my earliest memories of the radio was sitting with my mum listening to Blackburn Rovers win the Full Members Cup on Red Rose Radio on an alarm clock radio. We listened to Radio 1 a lot. Mike Smith presented the breakfast show back then. I remember Simon Bates and Our Tune, the original Steve Wright in the afternoon stuff, and Bruno Brooks doing the charts, and presenting the weekend breakfast show with Liz Kershaw. We went along to a Radio 1 Roadshow once, which was interesting. Simon Mayo, Rod McKenzie and the late Dianne Oxberry were the Breakfast Show presenters of my youth, but sometimes if I couldn't sleep at night I'd stick the radio on and doze to Mark & Lard. Chris Evans was fine, but when Mark & Lard took over the breakfast show they were the greatest. Moyles was on the early show at the time and he had this shit thing where he'd pretend Mark & Lard were starting half an hour early and do a really bad impression of them. I followed Mark & Lard to the afternoon show, which is arguably one of the greatest things ever broadcast. The stuff they'd get up to on that show was incredible. Missing Words, beat The Clock, Downcount, Lard's Classic Cuts ("is that record hard to find?" "In that condition? Yes.") often had me creased. The in depth reportage segment with Lard and Mr Bob-Nutcher where even the two of them are struggling to get through the segment is incredible radio, and obviously the beached whale of list Fat Harry White. I clung to the idea of them reuniting for years afterwards and was stunned when they did a few features with them for Radio 1's anniversary the other year. It was great to see them live as well. Anyway, when I studied music I would listen to Radio 2 for their much broader playlist and the broadcasting juggernaut that was Terry Wogan, and I loved listening to it with my mum in the car. As I mentioned at the top she was a big fan of Scott Mills and Sara Cox. We'd occasionally email in for totally tea-voted, but she wasn't as good as when Wimon Mayo did drive time and pretty much recreated his radio 1 breakfast show. Nowadays if I've got radio on in the flat it's usually live. I'll sometimes have Dotun Adebayo on as noise overnight to help me sleep. If I'm in the car with Vicky we listen to Magic At The Musicals and just have a rare old time singing along with that, especially if it's something from Hamilton. I also sometimes listen to the king of the centrist dads, James O'Brien on LBC as well, if only for his ability to make people look ridiculous by merely repeating what they've said back to them. I'll keep up to date with I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Just A Minute and Unbelievable Truth on BBC Sounds from radio 4. My mum used to listen to one called It's A Fair Cop, which would be amusing. The Sleeping Forecast is cracking as well. I remember one where it was the England women's goalkeeper reading the results from the last World Cup. Quote
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted March 31 Awards Moderator Posted March 31 We used to have Radio 2 on in the old office, with the workday being Ken Bruce-Jeremy Vine-Steve Wright. Always amazed me how much of his three hours Wright managed to fill with jingles and other filler nonsense. I'd sometimes continue with Simon Mayo on the drive home, quite liked when they had book reviews on there. These days, it's technically Radio 4 but only really through podcasts. The Friday Night Comedy was the first podcast I ever subscribed to (along with The Official LOST Podcast) and I still have that today, though only for The News Quiz since The Now Show finished. I have Comedy Of The Week as well, much more hit and miss but you'll sometimes get a John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Wing It, or Just A Minute on there. And I have a backlog of Desert Island Discs in case I ever run out of other stuff to listen to. Quote
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted March 31 Paid Members Posted March 31 (edited) @Rossman Huey left at the end of last year which has made things even worse! Edited March 31 by Gus Mears Quote
Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted March 31 Posted March 31 On 3/30/2026 at 3:39 PM, BomberPat said: on the Scott Mills thing, it does seem to be genuinely a bit out of nowhere. There's none of the usual smug preening from people who "always knew", and once you brush aside the point-scoring from people who already think that anyone at the BBC is a communist paedophile, there's very little to go on. All very odd. The Mirror are saying it relates to a historic complaint about a relationship more than ten years ago - so before he was with his husband. "Personal conduct" suggests something outside of work, I'd expect a full Schofield would be "misconduct". Seems like, from the news today that its definitely along the Schofield lines and relates to stuff from a long time ago. Interestingly the usual talking heads about it all are not quite defending him but not exactly condemning him either. Either way, the BBC were aware last year of allegations but didnt take them any further. Seems quite a protection racket at the BBC when it comes to their top stars Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 31 Paid Members Posted March 31 17 minutes ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said: Either way, the BBC were aware last year of allegations but didnt take them any further. Seems quite a protection racket at the BBC when it comes to their top stars It wasn't last year though. It turns out Scott Mills was investigated between 2016-2019 by the police. So they must have known about 10 years ago. Quote
Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted March 31 Posted March 31 Just now, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: It wasn't last year though. It turns out Scott Mills was investigated between 2016-2019 by the police. So they must have known about 10 years ago. https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-apologises-for-response-after-scott-mills-allegations-raised-last-year-13526048 Apologies i misread this article and didnt see the 'separate allegations' part based on concerns raised last year Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted March 31 Paid Members Posted March 31 The problem for the BBC is that yesterday they looked decisive and like there was no thought of a cover up by sacking Mills out of the blue. Today it looks like they've been covering it up for between 7 and 10 years. It doesn't matter that no further action was taken by the police. The BBC are in such a bad position that not firing him when he was only been investigated is seen as part of the cover up culture. Quote
RedTwoster Posted March 31 Posted March 31 49 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: The problem for the BBC is that yesterday they looked decisive and like there was no thought of a cover up by sacking Mills out of the blue. Today it looks like they've been covering it up for between 7 and 10 years. It doesn't matter that no further action was taken by the police. The BBC are in such a bad position that not firing him when he was only been investigated is seen as part of the cover up culture. While they’ve not always covered themselves in glory over the years, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t actually know about the allegations; which in itself might give them grounds to fire him. If he was questioned by police and didn’t disclose that, maybe that’s enough of a breach of contract to give them ground to stand on legally as far as unfair dismissal claims might go. Otherwise, it all seems a bit odd, and I genuinely would not know what to make of a decision like that given that no charges were brought. There surely can’t have been time for an adequate investigation to be carried out. Quote
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted April 1 Paid Members Posted April 1 7 hours ago, RedTwoster said: If he was questioned by police and didn’t disclose that, maybe that’s enough of a breach of contract to give them ground to stand on legally as far as unfair dismissal claims might go. Yeah, questioned under caution is usually enough for standard duty to disclose clauses to kick in. Quote
Rossman Posted April 1 Posted April 1 On 3/31/2026 at 10:04 AM, Gus Mears said: @Rossman Huey left at the end of last year which has made things even worse! Ah bollocks! Quote
Paid Members Weezenal Posted April 2 Author Paid Members Posted April 2 10 hours ago, Rossman said: Ah bollocks! He’s moved to Virgin Radio on Saturday and Sunday now. Quote
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