...but I think you'll find, Fuzz, that Stuart Maconie was guilty of writing a lot of the terrible remarks coming from Wright's cakehole on TOTP2, along with the on-screen trivia that used to appear on the screen.

Not that I'm defending Mr Wright, though...

right he 's off the christmas card list then

Just found this had to post the link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/3547047/Adolf-H...

Maybe James Whale is a nice guy off mic after all.

He know nothing about music but so what, his show is always entertaining, full of energy and passes the drive home. He isn't a 'shock jock', he's just a bit of a character and lots of people enjoy his show.
I don't really get Chris Moyles but I have nothing against Steve Wright, either on the radio or on TOTP2, what is it you don't like about him? And what is wrong with a posse? Zoo radio I think they call it in the business. It's much better than listening to some dullard in a studio on their own droning on to themselves.
I have never heard James Whale, what station is he on?

Maybe I was being a bit harsh on Chris Evans I have heard him at times be quite entertaining and play some decent music ,Steve Wright I really cannot stand remember those terrible characters he used to have Mr Angry et al dreadful non humour

The posse thing, call me boring if you want but I like my DJs to basically stick to playing good quality music I don't mind a bit of entertaining banter now and again but posses seem a waste of time when good music could be playing, i also hate it when DJs talk over records shut the F@@k up and let me listen to the record in full please.

James Whale the only Whale by the way I would like to see harpooned is on Talksport.

The master of self promotion. About as funny as a car crash involving your family. The music he played was just M.O.R rubbish all this at the same time as Punk,2-Tone etc.
If you're ever in the mood for "Year of the cat" or "W.O.L.D" find Dave on the dial and wait about 5 mins if it isn't already playing.
So bad he isnpired Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse for Smashy and Nicey.With many others it must be said.

I'll not have a word said against Tony Blackburn.

The William Shatner of the wireless world.

What I dislike most about his show is how falsely upbeat it is.

He is also sounding increasingly creepy. He has a feature in which women phone in from their cars and engage in some toe-curling flirting with him. He always asks what sort of car they're driving, and usually comments on this. Who cares? Is this Top Gear?

Currently he's asking them what they will be wearing to their work Christmas party, something "long and slinky" or "short, black and naughty". If it's the latter he gets ever so excited.

I can see how this might be enjoyable for Evans and Susie the sales rep parked in a lay-by in her Vauxhall Vectra or whoever he's talking to but it makes for pretty dismal radio.

I think he used to have a feature back in his Radio One days called In Bed With My Boyfriend in which girls would call in. A pattern is emerging.

I can't stand any radio for very long these days. Pretty much every programme has too much talk and not enough music. Radcliffe and Maconie are entertaining, but they often go 15 minutes without playing a record, so I just turn them off.
6Music is supposed to be haven for music lovers, but I tuned in on Sunday morning to get away from the constant chat and all I got was film reviews (film reviews? If I want that I'll listen to Kermode). And every musical guest gets about 20 mins of pointless chitty chat.
I suppose they are all trying to compete with iPods by adding some extra interest.

radio isn't for music buffs. It's an entertainment medium. I'm guessing here that the Ideal Word Website DJ would be someone who played Leonard Cohen and Fleet Foxes every day ( and in their entirety without any interruptions or voiceovers ) and who never spoke unless it was to regale us with interesting comments about serial numbers of Portuguese imports.

Sensational!

I may have missed something, but surely it the job of DJs on certain radio stations to play music first and foremost and keep the chat to a minimum.

I listen to five live and Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogerty they do not play music but are witty informative and entertaining.

The fact is some DJs are not entertaining,they are just plain obnoxious and I will never listen to them.

They spend hours talking only to themselves or to a selected posse of people who have been ordered to find their every utterance amusing nomatter what drivel comes out and it warps their brains. It makes radio a blooming strange thing sometimes.

I suspect Radcliffe sounds relatively normal on air because he's sensible enough to converse properly with guests and copresenters as equals and I truly wish other DJs would do the same.

As for annoying DJ's; lest we forget;

was, possibly, the finest DJ these islands ever produced. He talked over records incessantly and mashed them up into collages which often bordered on genius. His interviews with the Beatles circa 1968 are priceless. This to a clearly stoned Lennon..'can you say something to our listeners...that they'd actually understand?'
Personally, I don't want someone playing Belle and Sebastian and then saying 'that was Belle and Sebastian. Now Seasick Steve...'

He's ok and is a genuine good guy.
Some time ago I ended up in a pub with him and found him to be very entertaining and pretty smart in the music department. He's a major Van Morrison fan and had an in-depth knowledge of classic soul. He also wouldn't let me buy a drink all night.
Not a bad chap at all.

on a local radio station round here - anyone who gives themselves a "wacky" nickname and refers to themselves in the third person is a disgrace (but he'll probably get a job on 6Music).

Similar things discussed here too:

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/alan-partridgesmashy-nicey-moments

Unfortunately, there are people out there who like Moyles and Lamb and similar cretins, if there weren't then nobody would phone vote on Celeb programmes.

..some of the c***s we have here in Australia. There's one called Kyle (that's Kyle...) who I would cheerfully run over if I came upon him on a country road.

Was the name of a Radio 1 show in the Top Gear slot (not the car programme, the one where John Peel etc started) for a while in the 1970s I'm sure. That's exactly all that happened - play a record, back announce it, then introduce the artist and title of the next one, for two hours. It was incredibly boring. Unsurprisingly, it didn't last too long.

No one mentioned the "Hairy Cornflake" yet??
The most obnoxious, unfunny, self centred tosser ever.
Snooker on the radio??
Conkers on the radio??
What a hoot
I remember Q doing a hatchet job on him ( when Q was worth reading). Great article.
Quack quack oops.

You guys in blighty at least have a choice of djs. You wouldnt believe the giggling fools we have to suffer here. Its all Dave doubledecks with fake american accents. Ugh. Also as for the stupid dj names i give you Darren 'wackhead' Simpson.

There was an old quote to the effect that 'I remember when Tony Blackburn was a cult'.

I find Steve Wright exceptionally irritating but can tolerate Chris Evans. But they're doing much the same thing and playing much the same music so I can't put my finger on why this is. Similarly I used to like Jonathon Ross's radio show and I enjoyed Baker and Ball during a long drive last week (though perhaps there should have been a little more music amongst the banter).

But will somebody please give Sarah Kennedy enough money to retire? If I want half-informed waffle I'll go out and buy the Daily Mail rather than have its aural equivalent coming through my radio. But I've no doubt she too has her fans.

As people have said, evenings are different. Mike Harding and Bob Harris probably wouldn't get much of a daytime audience but suit their spots perfectly. Radcliffe and Maconie seem to have got it about right too.

...Adrian Juste for the best. Mind, that was a long time ago.

Not every DJ goes mad in the end.

Brian Matthew is 80, and his Sounds of the Sixties is a gem every week. It neatly mixes the familiar and the obscure and offers all kind of interesting information about the music.

When Matthew was ill, Johnny Walker took over, and he was a complete w@nker - chatting to the producer, telling us about his weekend etc. We can only hope that Brian Matthew is immortal.

He was an obnoxious fart in a spacesuit when he had his 'so called controversial' late nite phone-in show at Radio Aire in Leeds years ago - me and mates used to call up all the time drunk and try to be as offensive as possible before getting cut-off - he loved it the dirty media slaaaag!

Chris Evans was brilliant at the start, agreed, even when on Virgin.

Listening to Chris Moyles is like having your ears scrubbed with coarse sandpaper. Is this because I'm an old fart?

Steve Wright is totally passé.

Radcliffe and Maconie make the best broadcasting team I've heard - I even record their shows when I'm out or use the listen again function. Sad but true.

Brian Matthew recently got a new producer on Sounds Of The Sixties & the show has improved no end. Before it was largely made up of requests for justly obscure singles half-remembered by 60-somethings. Now it's more 'produced' - better music, better flow, and Matthew sounds like he's enjoying himself more. He's a true national treasure.
A word of praise also for Danny Baker & Zoe Ball's show which currently follows SOTS while Jonathon Ross is standing in the naughty corner. The pairing works well (Baker's very much the boss), the music is top notch &, in the likely event of Ross's non-return, R2 could do worse than keep them on - DB should be on national radio.

Why does Steve Wright constantly have to read his listeners' emails and texts claiming that they 'love the show'. Honestly, you can't listen to his show for 20 minutes without once hearing the dreaded 3 words. Having this show on at work makes me want to stick pins in my eyes its so bad. Full of false laughter, fake bonhomie and geezerishness, plus some rubbish features - factiods anyone?!?. It's even got a regular horoscope for gawds sake.
I haven't even mentioned the music yet. It's not that he's obnoxious just utterly utterly naff.

Let's have more Adam & Joe on the radio instead.

Where else can you hear Johnny Hates Jazz followed by Halo James? The station where the eighties survived!

Where is he now, I wonder? When Virgin first opened up in the early 90's it was a playground of anodyne, AOR plop. And Kevin Greening. But coming across Abbot for the first time was cracking. He reminded me just a little of another great 'obnoxious DJ', James Stannage, who was part of a great Japser Carrott routine from the 70's about local radio.

Obviously they gave him the 10-1 night-time phone-in. What was great was that he would actually talk to people and then only go off on one when the caller was quite clearly being a cock of the highest order. And usually he managed to do it with some style and wit. and his opinions were generally informed by at least some thought, which was unusual for the time.

He told the story of interviewing his idol, Kenny Everett, and asking for advice on how to get into the industry, to be told not to. Whether this was general advice or targetted to him I'm not quite sure. I for one am glad he didn't listen.