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iain_smith · Guest

Don't know if you allready knew this but Richard Hammond (the Top Gear presenter who miraculously survived that car crash) will be doing a special show on Good Friday (april 6) ,2-4pm.(Steve Wrights got the day off).Great to hear he's well enough to do a radio show.Irish comedian Dara O'briain is doing drivetime on the same day.

mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

God sake what is happening to the station?

iain_smith · Guest

I've been wondering that ever since Lesley Douglas took over!

iain_smith · Guest

at least theres one piece of news you might welcome-Richard Allinson is doing an extended breakfast show on Good Friday(filling in for Sarah Kennedy anmd Terry).In fact Jeremy Vine is the only normal presernter who doesnt have the day off!

Toggy tea slurper · Guest

Hammond should be alright, he's a good presenter. Not sure about Dara O'Brien though Confused

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Good news about Richard Allinson appearing on Good Friday.

Hope he doing on a stint on Easter Monday as well.

Richard Allinson rocks for the BBC (but not as often as he should be).

Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

I think the time may be coming to start a Campaign For Real DJs on R2. The qualification being that they do not already have a 'celebrity' background on TV etc. Do not SHOUT at you and always identify the tracks they play.
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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:43 pm Post subject:

Dara O'Briain??!! Fantastic!

Idle speculation time: I wonder if O'Briain is being tried out as a possible replacement for Jonathan Ross were Rossy to move...? He's another Off The Kerb act (like Ross, Lamarr, Steel, Brand, etc.)

gfloyd · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

Good choices both. People with personality and something worth saying are welcome. Less of the bland robo jock time check specialists please. At last radio 2 has stopped selecting cover presenters based upon their button pressing abilities.
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AndyAndy2 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:

The Richard Allinson news is to be exected but Yay anyway!!

I like the Hamster and Dara on tv so will give them a go on the radio - they can't do any worse a job than Davina did (or as O'dreary still does!!)

Don't think Dara's a potential line up, just another in a long list of celebs to attract listeners.

I take and agree with the point about real dj's.
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

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mcl · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:54 am Post subject:

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

Dara has impressed on his previous appearances on the network so it is only right and proper that he gets a proper show.

Richard Hammond started his career in local radio, so people should do some research before going off on the usual "why are these TV celeb's with no radio experience being employed by Radio 2" rant.
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

Shame it's not JOHN Hammond ! Sad

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Two stepper · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Did anyone see Hamster playing bass in the 'Top Gear' band on Comic Relief ? He was fantastic and it sure didn't look like he was faking it, the tune they murdered (Red light spells danger) had a bit of a train wreck ending and Hamster was playing some great bassline runs over Clarkson's pitiful attempt at playing drums.

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Richard Hammond started his career in local radio, so people should do some research before going off on the usual "why are these TV celeb's with no radio experience being employed by Radio 2" rant.
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Actually I reckon Hamster should be pretty good.

Does anyone know what genre of music he's likely to play?

Ian.

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject:

He has worked at a few stations including Radio York, Radio Cumbria, Radio Leeds, and Radio Lancashire in his time.
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