Radio 2 to launch Greatest Hits Radio...

[Julian Mince]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68226389

Maybe they should have left things as they were......

[Redpig59]

I actually like the sound of that.
Modern music is shite, young people are too disrespectful and this all used to be fields.

[Phillip Phlopp]

Aye, Gracie, t'forces favourite.

[Lisa]

I actually like the sound of that.
Modern music is shite, young people are too disrespectful and this all used to be fields.

All of this! In my day singers didn't need autotuned, there was no litter and everyone was so smartly dressed, not like these days.

<shakes fist at the clouds>

[Phillip Phlopp]

I remember the time when you could hear the latest pop tune heard on Two Way Family Favourites whistled merrily by a fat policeman as he cycled by.

[mis]

You can't whistle this modern rubbish.

[Phillip Phlopp]

And if you whistle anything English you can be arrested.

[Redpig59]

Policemen are too young to ride bikes these days.
Without those training wheels anyway.

[RockitRon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68226389

Maybe they should have left things as they were......

They certainly should.

Obviously spurred by the net loss of 1 million listeners (from 14m) in the last year, most of whom have followed Ken the Bruce and Simon Mayo over to, er, Greatest Hits Radio.

However, I suspect this is a device to "update" R2 even more. What's the betting all the evening specialist shows, plus Sounds of the 60s/70s/80s, and even Trevor Nelson's soul show, get moved across to the new vehicle.

[Phillip Phlopp]

The only programme I will listen to is Johnny Walker.

[Gaspode]

The only Whisky I will drink is Johnny Walker.

FTFY Phloppy...

[RockitRon]

The devil of this will be in the details.

In his interview about Steve Wright, Gambo said that he'd spoken about it with him at the weekend. Although the Beeb announced it, and used Wright's photograph, they haven't let anyone know what's involved.