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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

I used to listen to MR every evening, but since the new schedule I just can't get into the shows that are on after 10pm. 8pm is too early for the his new show for me. Crying or Very sad

So now I don't listen at all in the evenings after 8pm, except Bob harris on Saturdays 11pm.

Do you listen to R2 in the evenings ?

iknewdavidjacobsmum · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336

Not often. I usually listen again in the evenings to the bits I missed, like the Cohen interview

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

Like you I do tune into Bob Harris. I do think some of the shows are on too late for likes of the older listeners, and if they havn't got computers then how will they be able to catch up with these shows? I suppose Mark and Stuarts show is to attract the younger listener away from Radio 1 and other networks, but I just think the structure isn't catering for all.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I don't think it's just older listeners who lose out Mark, apart from maybe fewer having computers to 'listen again'.

I don't listen much on a regular basis between 8 and 10 unless there is a documentary or series that has been trailed during the day. I'm more inclined to listen after 10.30 out of habit, but would much prefer a similar type of programme on each night.

The earlier slot IMHO is more of a relaxation time when the brain is ready to take in something different and to maybe reflect on whatever is being said.

I do think they have got it wrong with the new schedule as I don't listen late anymore.

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Unfortunately for Radcliffe his early evening show came in around the time Radio 3 brought proper classical music back to early evenings so his show has never had me as a regular.

My Radio 2 listening must be at an all time low now. Partly due to the much-improved Radio3 but also I don't get up early any more, so no Sarah K for me now.

Last week I only listened to Desmond and FNIMN. If I go up the pub tonight I will miss Russel D and Malcolm L, so I will have listened to just two shows the whole week Shocked

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Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

I occasionally listen to 30 minutes or so of Radcliffe and Maconie every couple of nights. I try to catch Bob's Thursday show most weeks but usually it's via "Listen Again" on a Friday or Sunday evening. Most of the other programmes pass me by completely now, and I usually forget or don't have time to listen to the documentaries via "Listen Again".

AFAIC, my once cosy evenings on R2 have been completely wrecked. I'm happy to listen to the lads after 2000 and I do enjoy what they do, but not necessarily at the expense of virtually everything else I used to happily tune into.
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gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

The 8pm Radcliffe & Maconie show sounds like a second Chris Evans show. I tuned in for the first time this week & thought for a moment that it was Evans Saturday show. Lots of talk, stories from the papers, trivia, etc. Nothing wrong with it in itself, but very oddly scheduled as a mid evening show.

I think the odd start times of the post 10pm shows make them impossible to remember. You need a wall planner to remember what's on at 23.30 on Wednesday versus 22.30 on Thursday. Shocked

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Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject:

Which is probably why I've given up. Too much to keep track of.
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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

My R2 listening has dipped too. I like the Radcliffe/Maconie show (though the cowbell thing ['Stuff'n'nonsense' spots] is now wearing thin on me) To me it's like being the proverbial 'fly on the wall' at a lads night out at the pub! I do miss some of the speciality shows that have been shunted forward to the very late night spot (SOT70s & Album Chart Show to name two) but midweek afternoons are a virtual no-go area (do I really need to say why?) as are Saturday evenings, I might have listened to the Genesis thing but for the narrator, I just didn't think I could take it seriously with Chris Evans! I did stay longer with R2 yesterday morning though, Mark Lamarr was good doing Jonathan Ross' show, Otherwise I would have been gone from 10:00am till 2:00pm when Stuart Maconie comes on. People have moaned on here about Pete Mitchell (as is their right) but I didn't mind him doing Dermot O'Leary's show yesterday. The only increase in my listenership comes on Sunday afternoon. I didn't mind Lulu's show when she was on before Ed Stewart (He should still be on R2 somewhere, I believe there is a place for an 'anything goes' request show, & yes, so should Richard Allinson) And I like Pick Of The Pops followed by Johnnie Walker. With the other Sunday shows (PM) It's not the presenter but the content which just isn't really for me but that alone is no reason to axe them.
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Cherskiy · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

Hmmm - I'm still in two minds whether to listen to the Charterhouse doc - on the one hand, I'm interested in the subject, but not the narrator! Was Chris doing it because he was giving away the Genesis tickets a few weeks ago?
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I never listen in the evening, but then again I never have.... Confused

PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

Perhaps Dame Lesley is trying to persuade us Chris Evans is a "serious" broadcaster Laughing

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gfloyd · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject:

He did the Channel 4 interview with George Michael recently in Wembley. Personally I dont need to hear an other interview with George Michael, the Stones or Genesis anything in the next 50 years.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

I listen to the lads when ever I can in an evening, I thoroughly enjoy their show, especially the live spots, the chain, Noddy and the true and false what ever they call it. As for it being a second CE show, come on the whole thing is so much better than Driveltime, CE's not even in the Conference League while the lads are most definitely Premier League, IMHO. I also listen to Paul Jones, Bob Harris Country and his Saturday show, Suzie Q and occasionally Mike Harding but don't normally listen to shows after 10 PM, apart from to catch up with what I have missed.

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

I did think the show was going to be a evening session similar to what Mark Goodier help develop in 1990 over on Radio 1 and hosted himself? I suppose the idea is good, but is it right for Radio 2?

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

Living in a family where TV rules and we tend to have our evening meal around 7 means that I miss the folk, blues, country and Desmond Carrington that I used to try and catch. Although some of the music is good, I cannot stand Mark Radcliffe's presentation and delivery for very long (Stuart Maconie is almost anonymous alongside him) so if there's nothing of quality on the haunted fishtank I'll listen to my own CDs.

After ten Radio 2's schedule resembles a patchwork quilt and unless Jools has got someone really interesting on I'll go to Iain Anderson (or Ricky Ross while he's on holiday) over on BBC Radio Scotland.

If two hours must be allocated to Radcliffe and Maconie, I would have thought that 7-9 would have been the ideal slot - there'd also be less of a crunching gear change from what precedes it then.
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

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Evening listening is varied in our house depending on, if it's a Coronation Street day or not.
On Mon, Wed and Fri we carry-on listening after Drivetime but just for 30 minutes until the Street comes on. ( Extend Drivetime please- you know it makes sense) On Tuesdays and Thursdays the Radio is switched off when Chris says goodbye.

I have some difficulty with to SM and MR, they shouldn't be allowed out. Very few people in the world irritate me to the point of pain but with those two together, the irritation level is greater than the sum of the individual parts. Each time I tried, it hurt so much to listen to them; the effort required to haul my pain racked carcass across the lounge floor to switch off the radio left me exhausted and near to death. So convinced that I was near the end one night I left a note for my husband and pinned it to my chest. It read; "Darling, we will get to the off switch but if I don't make it, promise me this; you'll use my body as food and then continue until you reach the off switch and stand triumphantly in the golden silence that follows."

So we don't listen much in the evening......

Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Blimey Ernie-I posted on another thread recently that I thought Suggs and his Afternoon Tea Show on Virgin Radio was very good-you seem to be agreeing with me.

It is as you say a music devoted show-I do think it helps to have a musically focussed presenter-Suggs does indeed know his music very well-I like his sensible comments on the songs/artists he covers/plays etc.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

I do enjoy Radcliffe & Maconie but the slot just isn't right - I'd be happy to have them on later when I'm winding down or as the background to reading a book or something, but at 8-10 I'm usually doing something else and don't feel inclined to tune in.

Meanwhile, I'm neglecting all the specialist shows I do fancy (like the Tuesday documentary) because, by 11pm or midnight, I just can't be bothered. And I don't have the time or inclination to Listen Again.

For me, the worst change is 7pm Monday. I loved Simon Mayo's Album Chart Show and thought it really set up the week: a show you could dip into and out of after a busy day but still feel you've learnt something about the current music scene - information that would feed into the music heard on the network for the rest of the week. But I'm afraid that Paul Jones just doesn't do it for me.

gfloyd · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

Paul Jones playing the blues on Monday nights at just after 7 isn't right. Why not put it on Monday at dawn to heighten the Monday blues Wink

Neither is Mike Harding being let on the radio on Wednesdays at 7pm with no warning. At lease when we had a DMZ of an hours country music before the folk music menace there was some inkling of what was about to come..........
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PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

"The Folk Music Menace"

Where are their WMD's and how long would they take to deploy them???

Should I buy a tin helmet and hunker down in the bunker?

Laughing

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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject:

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

If you really want to listen to those documentaries, you shouldn't let Chris Evans put you off - I'm sure he'll only be doing a bit of talking between clips. They probably couldn't afford Brad Pitt this time...

Cherskiy · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

Hey, what's all the fuss about folk music anyway? Some of the best contemporary female vocalists around today (okay, IMHO! Very Happy

) would be classified as folkies - Karine Polwart and Julie Fowlis. No cat-strangling in earshot! Laughing

Whilst I'm not too heavily into trad folk and filks, the bits around the edges (the alt-stuff) can be really beautiful listening.
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gfloyd · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!

I don't know- nothing wrong with a bit of Hey-Nonny-No every so often Laughing

Anyone heard any of Blackmore's Night stuff, as a matter of personal curiousity?
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gazmando · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Huntingdon

Dancing in the moonlight
Singing in the rain
Oh it's good to be back home again
Laughing in the sunlight
Running down the lane
Oh it's good to be back home again

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gazmando · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 560 Location: Huntingdon

Perfectly put Mr Biker.

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