Inexcusably shit radio. The definitive list.

[stavros]

End of thread.

 

[stretchy18]

Fair enough, talentless, fat, short arsed bully.

 

[gentlegreen]

Fucking Just A Minute. It makes my teeth itch.

It's funny - that's the last show remaining of half a dozen I grew up with in the 60s and 70s - more innocent times .... but I too can't listen to it these days, ditto Desert Island Discs. I rarely dip into the Archers these days either - maybe it's the "modernisation" that started around about the time Elizabeth got mixed up with the first "Dirty Den" character Cameron Fraser in 1992 (Brian doesn't count).

 

[ebay sex moomin]

I've met Nigel Odgen, of 'organist entertains' fame. nice chap

Steve Wright in the afternoon is officially the most irritating show on air.

FACTOID

 

[King Biscuit Time]

I like Count Arthur Strong.

I also hate Steve Wright in the afternoon, although I can't help listening to it. It's like picking a scab, but I think i listen because there's nothing worth listening too on R4 at that time, and i'm starting to count the hours until I leave work.

Jo Caufield though, whenever she pops up on R4 - Christ she's terrible.

 

[ebay sex moomin]

 

[purves grundy]

Can't stand Steve Wright either. He's a prize fucking cunt with his fucking in-studio whooping and 'big rounds of applause' and all the constant fucking "Hi Steve love the show..." dedications.

Here's a factoid - Steve Wright, and all he stands for, is genetically equivalent to a puddle of swoony arse piss

 

[gabi]

Any mainstream station. Utter utter shite. Human hating shite. I exclude radio 6 from that.

 

[skyscraper101]

All of Virgin Radio

Nick Ferrari on LBC

Jo Fucking Whiley

Zane Fucking Lowe

um....and anything with Edith Bowman on it

 

[rosa]

That bell-end Iain Lee on Virgin on Sunday. "oh listen to me being rude to people,i'm so outrageous". I thought this kind of shock-jock shite went out of fashion about 8 years ago?

 

[mr_eko]

any music show that uses a playlist

 

[jayeola]

There's also "Go For It" on R4. Yes, I know it's supposed to be a kids' program, but I'm taking that into account.

The trouble with plays on Radio 4 is that they are generally performed by people with terrific voices, so they invite a certain amount of attention just by being audible; you start to convince yourself that it's going to get interesting eventually, surely, but an hour later you realise that it's just finished and nothing happened that you cared about in the slightest. Also, the good ones start off sounding pretty much the same as the bad ones.

Count Arthur Strong is crap by the way.

Still, it's all a lot better than Radio London.

That actually put me going to the theater for a while. Saw a play along the Charing X Road. Suddenly realised that 30 mins had gone....remember all of those "ghastly" plays on R4.

Open Treo... started pseudo coding.

Also, I actually like the Now Show

 

[Idris2002]

Is Count Arthur Strong meant to be Irish?

 

[ebay sex moomin]

I've always seen him as a spin on Bernard Cribbins, but that's maybe just cos he sounds like one of the characters off Captain Pugwash

 

[mrs quoad]

There's also "Go For It" on R4. Yes, I know it's supposed to be a kids' program, but I'm taking that into account.

The Little Toe Show.

Epic, epic, epic fail. In a jar of fail. With added lashings of fail.

 

[belboid]

(Disagree about Quote, Unquote ...)

oh, that's you is it?

There one and only fan, that is. Appalling programme.

 

[Kaka Tim]

The Now Show, Nearly every Radio 4 play, Moneybox, You and Yours, Thought for the Day, Go for it!, The Archers, Loose ends and anything with Mark Lawson or Clive's Anderson or James on.

All utter shite.

I think that only leaves the news quiz and the shipping forecast.

Desert Island Disc is sometimes good and is much improved with the departure of Sue 'Stuck up Tory Bint' Lawley.

 

[mrs quoad]

The Now Show, Nearly every Radio 4 play, Moneybox, You and Yours, Thought for the Day, Go for it!, The Archers, Loose ends and anything with Mark Lawson or Clive's Anderson or James on.

All utter shite.

I think that only leaves the news quiz and the shipping forecast.

Desert Island Disc is sometimes good and is much improved with the departure of Sue 'Stuck up Tory Bint' Lawley.

Don't hold back, now

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

George Motherfucking Lamb - who I am listening now 'cos now we listen to music in the office.
All daytime Radio One DJs and most of the night time ones are pretty much up their own arse.
Jo Whiley for being a complete fake.
Nemone isn't much cop either.
Victoria Derbyshire for being the most awful walking talking version of a tabloid..

I agree about the Radio 4 plays but I quite like thought for the day... its interesting, especially when they get a buddist or an aethist on.

 

[Mr Smin]

All of R4's twee output firmly satirised by On The Hour
http://chilled.cream.org/boards/index.php?page=onthehour

[this is a thumbs up to On The Hour - in case that was unclear]

 

[Limejuice]

Shit radio - the antidote today

BBC 7

Midday, today

Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock in Hospital: Hancock has been in hospital for three weeks and not had a single visitor. Then Bill and Sid arrive. From December 1959.

Yes, it is 49 years old.

No, it is not shite.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

That episode is one of the all time best

 

[dream_girl]

The Organist Entertains. Nobody under the age of 70 listens to it. Ditto "Friday Night is Music Night".

If I'm listening to Maconie and Radcliffe and forget to turn the radio off immediately at 10.00 I sometimes have to endure up to several seconds of this programme while rushing to turn it off. Especially if I'm in the bath.

 

[dream_girl]

the organist entertains isn't a shit show though - of it's type, it's excellent. it's just aimed at a market which isn't you...

Er...well you could probably say that of all radio

 

[dream_girl]

Jo Caufield though, whenever she pops up on R4 - Christ she's terrible.

Her and bloody Jenny Eclair - I've had to stop listening to the radio cos one of them seems to be on every panel show going at the moment.

 

[gentlegreen]

BBC 7

Midday, today

Hancock's Half Hour

Or, some more recent genius from Andy Hamilton :-

22:30-23:00
Old Harry's Game
The Beautiful Game: Satan decides to host a major football tournament - the Underworld Cup. Episode 5 of 6. [Rptd Wed 3.30am].

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/bbc7/oldharrysgame.ram

 

[vauxhallmum]

Or, some more recent genius from Andy Hamilton :-

22:30-23:00
Old Harry's Game
The Beautiful Game: Satan decides to host a major football tournament - the Underworld Cup. Episode 5 of 6. [Rptd Wed 3.30am].

Andy Hamilton is a radio god

Hate hate hate Money Box live- who are these bastard people that ring in about their sodding ISAs?? Die, scum.

But I will defend The Archers and the Afternoon Play to the bitter end.

 

[janeb]

You and Yours and the Moral Maze make me want to explode with general anger, and Any Questions / Any Answers often makes me despair. Hardly ever listen to the afternoon plays but not hugely impressed by the few I've managed to catch

 

[_angel_]

"Look Away Now" on Radio 4



Been a while since I listened to Radio 5 as there's too much interference on analogue here, but your description reminded me to nominate all Radio 1 news as well.

Radio One News. Blimey.

 

[Oswaldtwistle]

The Organist Entertains. Nobody under the age of 70 listens to it. Ditto "Friday Night is Music Night".

To be fair, Ms T that is the audience that the show is aimed at.

There are nearly as many 70 plus in the country as 15-24 year olds, and the latter group have 2 BBC networks (1 and 1xtra) plus several commercial stations aimed more or less soley at them.

Over 70s actually get very little of their music on air, BBC locals rarely play music from before 1960, and the Smooth network (formed from the ashes of Saga FM) doesn't play much before 1965, and much of it is more recent than that.