..only podcast it. I'm stuck in the car most afternoons and until they give me the kind of motor with a digital radio I'm scuppered.

Jo Whiley? Nooooooooooo....

or is it happening?

They'd be much better than Namone.

Who i'm sure's a lovely lady but would be much more suited to local radio.

From the Guardian...

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie switch from Radio 2 to 6 Music

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie: will continue Radio 2 projects after moving to 6 Music afternoon slot. Photograph: BBC

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are to leave their BBC Radio 2 evening show to present the weekday afternoon slot on BBC 6 Music.

Radcliffe and Maconie's move to 6 Music – which was saved from closure by the BBC Trust last year – is an effort by the BBC to further boost the digital station's audience, which has doubled over the last 12 months.

Both DJs will retain a presence on Radio 2 – Radcliffe presenting a new late-night slot and Maconie fronting a 50-part authored history of pop. They will be replaced by Jo Whiley on the Radio 2 evening show.

Whiley, who lost her weekday Radio 1 slot in 2009 to move to a weekend show, will now leave Radio 1, bringing the curtain down on a 17-year career with the station.

"I've loved working at Radio 1 for the past 17 years. It's given me opportunities I could only have dreamt of," said Whiley.

"As well as supporting my love of music, Radio 1 have also supported and accommodated me bringing three further children into the world, something, as a woman, I will always be grateful for."

Bob Shennan, the controller of Radio 2 and 6 Music, described Whiley as "at the top of her game and a first-rate broadcaster with a great knowledge of music. I'm looking forward to her bringing her own brand of presenting to the Radio 2 evening schedule."

He added: "This is another big moment in the history of 6 Music. Mark and Stuart's arrival will help us build on the phenomenal success of the past 12 months."

Radcliffe and Maconie have presented their Sony gold-winning Radio 2 weekday evening show since 2007, although it was cut back from four to three nights a week last year.

The switch to the 1pm to 4pm slot on 6 Music, due to take place on 4 April, will inevitably mean a big drop in the number of their listeners, Radio 2's audience more than 10 times the average weekly reach for 6 Music.

Radcliffe, who will present a new Tuesday late-night Radio 2 show, said: "We feel like we have signed up to the future in a big way. The music policy of 6 is right up our street with its blend of heritage tracks and emerging new talent.

"We also look forward to stretching its musical remit even further by continuing to make our playlist as all embracing and eclectic as it has been on our evening show."

In other changes, 6 Music lunchtime presenter Nemone will move from her weekday lunchtime slot to present the 6 Music weekend breakfast show.

They start at 6 on April 4, apparently

Bang goes my weeknights - Radcliffe and latterly Maconie have provided the entertaining soundtrack to my evening cooking stint and, to be frank, the idea of Jo Whiley in their place saddens me deeply. My lousy broadband connection means iPlayer is out of the question, so no listen-agains. Harrumph.

Marc Riley it is, then. Reassurance, anyone?

And I'm not very keen on 6Music, though I suppose that doesn't matter now if that's where the M&R are going I'll follow them.
If Whiley's going to be a regular on Radio 2 that means:
Wogan (Bearable, perfect for morning) replaced by Chris Evans (even though he's not as bad I still don't like him)
Ken Bruce - ok by me.
Jeremy Vine - too many 'opinion/phone-in shows as it is
Steve Wright - not keen
Mayo - not keen
Whiley - very not keen
And even 'Wossy' was good on the Sayurday morning slot. Graham Norton just doesn't have it on the radio. Add to that Titchmarsh, Alan Carr (again, better on TV, annoying on Radio) and the whole station has changed into something I really don't want to hear.

I rarely get a chance to listen to the radio any more but while I moved house over the weekend I stuck on 6music. I love the music on 6music but can't stand a lot of the DJs as they talk far too much.
Cerys got it nearly bang on. I heard some great reggae and bluegrass and she kept the talking to a minimum. I managed to put a whole sofa together and dispose of the excessive wrapping before I switched her off because she was reading out a recipe.

effectively rules out most of the working population. That can't be a good thing. For me R&M's banter best suits evenings with cooking on the go and a large glass of red. As for Jo Whiley - I cannot reach the off switch fast enough.

Is The Freak Zone going to continue? Sincerely hope so. Oh, and please don't mess with Jarvis. Thank you.

I am now doubly annoyed about the BBC moving operations to Salford Quays. Previously I was all in favour, until first I lost Simon Mayo on Five Live and now I realise that all the BBC types are moving into where I want to move to in Manchester and driving the prices up. Is it too late to stop this madness? At least until after we can afford a place in Altrincham?

R & M are perhaps the closest thing to the Word podcast on the wireless. Happy to see them move under the 6music banner, but an evening slot did seem like their natural home. Perhaps they'll be moved back there eventually?

The BBC can say what they like about the resurgence of 6Music, but this is a bad move for R&M. I agree with Steerpike above: their style is better suited to the evening audience - actually even more suited to the later audience. Mark R has shifted his style to a maturing adult rather than to the studenty-types that suited his Mark & Lard afternoon shows on R1.

I listen to them on iPlayer anyway so the timeslot won't matter much to me, but their audience of the cooking/the lorry driver/the guys working late/people who think TV is shite so listen instead... all absolutely make their show with their wisecracks and witty emails.

Disappointed.

I agree with everything Steerpike says above but a mere 'up' won't do. There's no way I can listen to this at work and listening later on iplayer isn't the same. However upbeat the BBC press release, it does feel as if they're being put out to pasture.

I've been shuffling around the dial of an afternoon since Simon Mayo left 5Live. I love R&M but struggle to find time to listen to them of an evening. Lots of boxes ticked for me.

To me, R&M are the soundtrack to an evening of cooking and eating. So familiar are they that when they vanished from Thursdays we (rather pathetically) felt quite bereft. So we will be um...bereft-er, I guess.

That said, if I was putting together a dream team on a radio station, I'd be quite pleased with myself if I managed to get R&M, Lamacq, Marc Riley and Gideon Coe all in a row. So from the BBC's perspective I can understand it.

Luckily we have iplayer on our radio (while radio is still on iplayer...) so we can hopefully create our own evening R&M show.

Mixed feelings here. We have 6 Music on in the office and are rather fond of Nemone, not sure that the R&M vibe will work as well in early afternoon as it does in the evenings.

I don't like Radio 2, and I'm a happy 6Music listener. R&M were the only thing that even vaguely tempted me in the direction of R2, and even they couldn't actually make me listen.

to Radio 4. If there's nothing on that I switch off.

The two consistent 'switch-off's' in the G study are Michael 'let's-agonize-over-some-bleedin-moral-issue-or-other' Buerk and Fi Glover.

Eddie Mair is King. Best thing on radio. Ever.

Personally I would have preferred them to stay in an evening capacity - 6Music or R2 it make no bones to me. The move to afternoon is a repeat of what happened to Radcliffe back in 1997 when R1 moved him from breakfast, meaning I missed out on several years "quality broadcasting" until he moved to a later slot on R2.

That said, I think a move to 6Music will give the station a bit of oomph and anything that supports 6Music is fine by me.

Not sure about Nemone taking over at weekend breakfast on 6Music. Nothing against her but ever since getting my new DAB clock radio at Christmas I've enjoyed listening to Jo Good at the weekends.

Bloody disaster. R&M are far and away the best thing on the radio and the evening slot suited them perfectly. Afternoon slot is for Steve Wright and his ilk (great at what they do but not exactly pushing the envelope) R&M's evening show sits alongside the Word podcast as an unmissable broadcast. I will sorely miss them. Please please please say they'll be on Listen Again.

Nobby in Hackney

Due to the time difference I get to listen to him and him between noon and 2:00 pm. Now I'll actually have to do some work in the middle of the day.

Might not.

Fancy a brew?

It seems the person with most to lose out of this is Andrew Collins. I can't see a lot of maternity leave cover being needed for Maconie and Radcliffe.

A brilliant radio show, cut off in its prime.
This show was really working. Smart, witty, warm personalities. A real rapport with the audience that fed back and fuelled the show. A vast deep knowledge of music conveyed not in a pompous or "ooh look at me, aren't I hip" way, just with genuine enthusiasm.
The perfect backdrop to our evenings cooking, eating, winding down etc.
And relegated to the wilderness of Radio 6 to accomodate someone who the BBC obviously consider to be some sort of A-List broadcasting "star".
"Amazing" as Jo Whiley would say (indiscriminately about whatever the indie/NME conveyor belt throws up.)

I'm sorry. I'm one of those people that the BBC hate. I get thrown into a wave of Daily Mail angst whenever the schedules change I get a sense of indignant rage at the threat to my normal routines.

I love Radcliffe and Maconie so the transfer to daytime 6 music filled me with outrage initially. On reflection, I think its a good thing. It means that I need to replace my radio with a docking station so I can 'listen again'.

Should I send the DAB to a landfill?

Sad they're away form R2, but the slot on 6 helps. May be able to stick them on in the office at work on 6, ditch Whiley's rather anodyne tones in the evening and instead listen to a top show on my local BBC station presented by the rather great Bob Fischer. On balance might work out quite well for me...

The only way moving them to the afternoon makes sense is if it's a stopgap, incorporating R&M into the 6music schedule, before moving them back to the evenings at a later date. It does seem that's where their audience is. Nemone in the afternoon was fine, I thought.

R&M have been my evening companions ever since I separated from my wife 4 years ago. I have been listening to Radio 2 for about 20 years but this was the last show I listened too as they have stopped catering to my taste in broadcasters/music. Down here in the land of no mobile signal and where you can only get FM by flinging a bit of wire out the window, DAB is non existent. I rarely bother with Listen Again. So it is podcasts only from now on.

Will try to catch her show at weekends.

Love Radcliffe and Maconie too but rarely catch their evening show, so now I can hear them too.

Lovely lovely lovely S Maconie followed by lovely lovely lovely Marc Riley followed by lovely lovely lovely Gideon Coe we are not worthy I will never go out again.
Please please please don't give up the Freak Zone Stuart.
And finally, any time Andrew Collins is subbing fine by me. Prefer him without the fishy friend who does not know difference between comedy annoying and just plain annoying.

(see also moans about Masterchef) but for me the Radcliffe and Maconie show's lost the charm, intimate atmosphere (and usually infallible playlist) it had since moving to daytime 6Music.

Anyone agree?