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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Ernie-Perhaps you could evidence your bizarre comments with precise examples of when Allinson (he has a christian name-Richard, so perhaps you could be more respectful in your postings) re "his weird way of saying the wrong thing when speaking to other human beings".

Clearly over many years you have posted many anti Richard Allinson comments.

I eagerly await your response/am all ears.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:46 pm Post subject:

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

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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

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Simon M is quite good at this DJ stuff - he's been doing it while now, so he should be, he's no Chris Evans but he 's ok. My hubby was at Uni at the same time as Simon at Warwick- they both worked on W963 I think it was called then. The Uni Radio Station.

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

You must admit would Radio 2 have given two weeks of Drivetime to another broadcaster, if he or she was announced to be in line to take over Ken Bruce etc?

MadeinSurrey · Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

Simon Mayo has not "been announced to be in line to take over Ken Bruce".

I doubt whether Ken needs to be taken over, and if it's his show you're referring to, let's just wait and see. As Ken himself said, he's going to be around for some time yet.
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

Must admit I'm enjoying listening to Drivetime for the first time in a long while. I've got to the stage where as much as I usually enjoy Richard Allinson I don't care for him on Drivetime as it's almost the same manic mayhem as it is with Chris Evans.

I really enjoyed the nice long interview about Christian the lion tonight, I miss them the most on Drivetime I suppose.

The main problem is I've got out of the habit of listening to radio at that time so I've been forgetting to switch on until part way through the show. Glad he's on for 2 weeks though.

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BDG · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 202

I really do not understand why everyone is so obsessed with re-slotting people or think that they even want to be re-slotted.

Chris has matured, he may not be everyone's cup of tea but I personally think he does a good job on drive time, I never thought I would say that as I hated his Saturday show but he does IMHO.

In particular with RA how does Mark know that he isn't quite happy doing what he does and has no desire whatsoever to take a permanent daily slot on R2?

The same goes for JW he opted to leave the Drivetime slot he wasn't pushed out, he didn't want to work everyday 5 days a week. Who can blame him?

I don't think either that JW's drivetime slot was without it's manicness either, it was certainly present because it is tied into that time of day. One only has to recall his complete loss of control when he got into highly amusing episodes with Sally.

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

He still shouts and behaves like a demented teenager. Given that he's over 40, that's a bit sad. Just listen to his really, really infuriating trails. Insufferable.
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

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Yes, the word "most" does indeed imply a majority! Smile

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

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Chris Evans is unique, I don’t mean that in the, “everyone is different” sense because we are but lots of different DJs can/could host an enjoyable Drivetime show and they’d all sound fairly similar. Chris’ show is different because of him; he’s the only person that can do it, like he does. A bit like Marmite perhaps – you either love him or hate him but like Marmite there’s enough of the former to make keeping the shelves well stocked a profitable venture. Yummy!

I think the “most” Mark referred to was “ most of the people whom listen to drivetime” enjoy the show, not most of the people in the country.

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject:

Angela W · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 7228 Location: North Yorkshire

I used to listen to Drivetime every day, but since the Ginger Whinger made it his own I only listen when he is not on it. I can't stand his style of 'presenting' for more than a few seconds which is a shame because I like the music. When some actually gets played that is!
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MadeinSurrey · Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject:

Hear Hear!
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colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

I've been listening to Simon Mayo in the car this evening (whereas I would normally tune away from Evans the second I hear his stupid, nerve-grating, voice) and I think he's well suited to the slot. There's still too many phone-ins with silly people telling us what they're going to be doing over the weekend (like I really give a monkeys?) and the pace is a little bit faster than with Mayo's other shows (but not as insufferably OTT as the 40-year-old teenager) but at least he doesn't treat his audience with contempt.

Much better, even if it's short-lived.
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I’ve listened to Simon Mayo, pretty much every night while he’s been covering, and he’s ok –not bad, I’d venture as far as saying, he’s rather pleasant– he fits nicely into that group of DJs that I mentioned earlier but he could equally have been Richard Allinson, Mark Goodyear, Stuart Maconi or any of the other generic off the shelf formulaic presenters.
It’s rare to find someone who is as different as Chris Evans – we’re privileged to have him on Radio 2, it's such an extravagance not to listen to his show.

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

I like Simon Mayo. Of those generic, off-the-shelf, formulaic presenters he's the one this shortarse can reach. Born not a million miles from where I was, started with the Beeb at my local station, in the good old days when they played music as well as telling you which part of the borough missed its rubbish collection yesterday, consumate professional, doesn't talk all over the first 90 seconds and interrupt the last 90 seconds of a standard 3.42 pop song, and not afraid to use big words like indigenous even though half the people who normally text or ring in are unlikely to understand what they mean Smile

However, just think back, those of us who rail against the Chris Evans hectoring, jump-up-and-down-wave-your-Calvin Kleins-in-the-air style, and who have been waxing lyrical about Pirate Johnnie Walker and the halcyon days of pop music radio as we know it.

During the day (Radio London) had Tony Blackburn, Tony Windsor, Dave Dennis, Ed Stewart, Kenny Everett...

Ah, our beloved Ken. Now, which of that lot is the Chris Evans among the Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce, Jeremy Vine and Steve Wright? How did we feel when he was off on shore leave and it was Richard Allinson or Stuart Maconie, sorry, Mike Lennox or Duncan Johnson, filling in?

He's only carrying on a tradition established 45 years ago, and it boils down to what sort of radio you want at that time of the day. Do you want a chap who sounds like a schoolteacher, giving us a history lesson, as he did on Tuesday, about the origin of Springsteen's Pay Me My Money Down, referring to the credit crunch, and coming out with the line "and if part of you didn't move to that, NHS Direct is just around the corner", or do you want the bloke who's like your crazy cousin and sounds as though he's been taking those purple wake-up pills, who will be dancing on the ceiling and urging you get up off your arris to join him.
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essexlady · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 348 Location: Essex

I definitely do NOT want the crazy cousin taking the purple pills on my radio at any time of the day or night

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Fog on the Tyne · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1096

I don't know whether a full time music show would satisfy Mayo right now - especially seeing as he's just won an award for "proper broadcasting".

His 5Live show is excellent (the only thing worth listening to on the current 5Live day time schedule) and it allows him to stretch himself and induldge his intrest in politics.

5Live's move to Salford might change things though,I think he'd be great in either the Drivetime or Ken Bruce's slot but he'd be a HUGE loss to 5Live - they can't seem to find anyone to cover for him successfully.
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Minx · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject:

I thought SM sounded distinctly uncomfortable last night on the "phone-in" feature. He's not the guy to deal with all those loony hyper women who seem to call in on Fridays, and I felt very sorry for him having to demean himself in that way.

But I like him in the slot, just lose the daft features and it will be fine. Smile

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I don't "get" this charge of Chris Evans being childish. He's exactly the same age as myself , as near as makes no difference, he says and does things in the same way that I do. He's lively, exciting and a wee bit bouncy, but not childish. He may be childlike at times but that is a good thing.

Minx · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

So what do you find exciting about him Rachel?
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