The (Radio) One Show

Broadly true, though things are more segregated these days. In the 70s when I was a teenager and my parents were in their 40s we'd all sit and enjoy TOTP. Capital Radio played all day in the house

Fast forward 30 years, and it wasn't the case when our lads were teenagers. R2 down stairs, Capital/Kiss/R1 in their rooms. There is some crossover though, I caught our youngest lad playing a Marvin Gaye album, and Mrs Markymark is partial towards Snoop Dog

In my family, we all gladly listen to R2 on a regular basis. (Except Chris Evans - can't stand him 😣)

Same here. I find Shaun Keavney a good listen in the morning. Good music, guests, humour but not shouty. I like Simon Mayo in the evening.

We finally gave up on Chris Evans about 9 months ago, in fact I've largely given up on Radio 2, just Ken Bruce if I'm driving somewhere mid morning. Otherwise it's now R4 or Jazz FM in the car, and if at home, streamed music

On a slight tangent, Its probably time that there was another Bannister style cull at Radio 1 - the presenters are a bit old now for the station demographic.

I can see Scott Mills being a target. Otherwise I'm not sure who else?

Staying off topic - If Scott Mills still covers the breakfast show, then I still think he is highly regarded.

Nick Grimshaw is 32, Greg James is 31, based on previous decisions they should be pensioned off at some stage to make way for new talent.

Chris Moyles was highly regarded when they axed him from the Breakfast Show, in fact the year before they gave him a 3 year deal to continue with Breakfast until 2014 when he would eventually leave after 10 years but in Summer 2012 his former producer Ben Cooper took him off breakfast to try and lower the average age. Moyles in an interview with Stephen Nolan in 2015 said they had a meeting at 10am and said they were taking him off the breakfast show and were going to announce it in the 10.30am or 11am newsbeat bulletin however Moyles persuaded Cooper to let him make the announcement the next morning therefore no one is bigger than the station no matter how highly regarded. Also worth noting that Scott Mills is the same age as Chris Moyles so in their early 40s so if anyone is up for the chop it would unfortunately be Scott Mills.



Still think they have a few years yet at Radio 1, as I mentioned Mills and Moyles were still at Radio 1 approaching 40.

I think TV and radio stations now target to a much more specific audience, because there are now so many stations, whereas on FM and AM there were fewer of them and they had to aim at a more general audience. Now with digital TV and DAB radio there's so much more choice and stations seem to target at the most specific of demographics in order to please advertisers. Radio 2 is probably the one station that all the family can listen to.


Younger generations are a lot more accepting of older music IMO than say people growing up in the 80s were about rockstars from the 60s still performing. I distinctly remember Charlie Brooker saying in one of his Screenwipe shows that the 80s were when middle-aged men like Phil Collins were allowed to be popstars. Phil Collins was only in his 30s then, whereas someone like Pharrell Williams is in his 40s now.

I think you may have missed what happened after Ben Cooper took over. He sacked Moyles unceremoniously and a lot of the presenters that had been there for a while like Fearne Cotton, Jo Whiley, Edith Bowman and Nihal have moved on. Even Tim Westwood wasn't safe.

I remember the Matthew Bannister & Dan Dan The hatchet man culling - that wasn't pretty. A very BBC Machiavellian management business.

It isn't so much age, but the language older presenters were using and of course, the music. Remember what Matthew Bannister said in the Radio One Blood on the Carpet documentary that you can have people in their 40s broadcasting to younger people, but if the whole cast of characters is completely out of touch with youth culture, it's time for a change.