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Radio 2 - 35 years on and Sunday evening is just the same......
Picture the scene when this grizzled Word reader was a mere callow 12 year old(ish):
Sunday evening after tea at home with the parents one of my tasks was to do the washing up. Whilst not a task that I ever taken much pleasure in doing, the monotony was relieved by the fact that I could listen to the Top 20 countdown on Radio 1 undisturbed. So actually it passed the time in a reasonably pleasant manner. But after the countdown finished Radio 1 switched off and went over to Radio 2 where the airwaves were taken up by the frankly awful Sing Something Simple.
Fast forward to yeasterday (Sunday) evening:
Said grizzled Word reader is in the bath listening to Johnnie Walker's programme on Radio 2, a show that I enjoy very much: good music presented by a very decent chap. The radio is on at the other end of the bathroom. Then at 6.30 it ends and whilst Radio 2 does not go off air, what comes up? Yup, the frankly awful Alan Titchmarsh which I have to endure for 15 minutes before I can take it no more and abandon the bath and switch it off.
Plus ca change, la meme chose is the phrase which comes to mind.
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I love Radio 2 on Sunday nights…
… Maybe not the Titchmarsh per se, but I find Malcolm Laycock and David Jacobs a wonderfully soothing way to end the weekend. I for one don't look forward to the day when they're replaced by some 'comedian and presenter' in a bid to appeal to the 'youth'.
Sunday
Sunday nights on Radio 2 is a favourite with my parents; I suppose they have to cater for older tastes at least one night a week. I quite like some of the dance band stuff that's on later. It does however remind one of Monday mornings and the "Sunday night back to work Monday" horror!
I listened to that programme
and enjoyed it. There’s a time and a place for gentle, bland, middle-of-the-road music presented by a gentle, bland, middle-of-the-road “jock”. And that time and place is Sunday night on Radio 2. What do you think should be on R2 at that time? Prog? Death Metal? “Gangsta”? Edgy comedy?
I quite often enjoy
A bit of Titchmarsh (well the music he plays anyway) when doing the ironing on Sunday evenings. Just because light classical music can be enjoyed fairly effortlessly, it does not make it a bad thing.