Can we get rid of Steve Wright for good?

I have no idea what you you are talking about.

I thought this thread was going to be about calling for the re-instatement of capital punishment.

He used to be great in the 90's, but now his show is just reading shout outs and rubbish instantly forgettable facts

I had no idea he was still going. I can recall listening to him on Radio 1 circa 1986.

I've recently switched from Radio 5 to 2. Radio 5 has been driving me to insanity for years. (It may be too late..)

Anyway was listening to Chris Evans this morning and he had Anne Marie in the studio playing a couple of songs.

Flippin eck, what a voice.

radio 5 must be losing listeners at a pace, dreadful stuff.

Talks through the beginning and ending of every song, calls his own show 'The big show', has 2 annoying sidekicks, interrupts the 'non stop oldies' etc etc

agreed Injera she was fantasic

Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 Music is the most entertaining show on the radiogram but I think you may have to be a bit northern to fully get some of the humour. I've discovered some brilliant new music in the last 2 or 3 years thanks to this station.

Steve Wright and Jeremy Vine are both carp and ready for the home for old djs.

Radio 2 is sh1te. Radio 6 alone worth the licence fee.

I don't know how Jeremy Vine ever became a DJ. Who ever thought the general public would enjoy listening to his nasal whine and thought, 'what job is that voice least suited to, I know, a radio DJ, so lets put him on the radio!'

However, as Mr Spock says, Steve Wright really is the pits and why has nobody ever told him that people really don't want to hear his drivel through the beginning and end of every song.

BTW I'm Southern and I fully get the humour, you don't have to be a Manc or from Wigan to get it.

Jeremy Vine isn't a DJ, he is a current affairs and news presenter whom I think is very good, Steve Wright  is a patron isingi, pompous idiot, as for Radio 5, tony Livesey is excellent and interacts well with Anna Foster, Campbell  and Burden are ok too .

Talks through the beginning and ending of every song


They do that to discourage listeners from taping the songs

i only turn radio 2 on at about 10:25 for pop master then turn off again at about 10:45.
i got 18 & 21 today. a bit disappointed but i've had worse

1500 to 1530 here

still manges to Butt in here

he carrying some timber these days

I do exactly the same northanlite.
Radio on at 10 til 11 (only really listening to popmaster.
3 in 10 was easy today too!
At 11 it's Radio 4extra til 5. So I don't have to listen to anything twice.
Brilliant if it's quiet at work and It's perfect timing before stuff starts getting repeated.

This began out of a massive dislike for Steve Wright and his obsequious, sycophantic creeping.
Oh, and his lack of saying who the record was by. Oh, and talking/singing over the records.

Mind you, even worse is when Fearne Cotton does popmaster and takes Ken Bruce's place.
How did she EVER get a job in broadcasting?

Oh and radio 5 live on Saturdays. Danny Baker is good then it's sport.
Other than that Radio 5 is unbearable PC Crap.

well i agree about Danny Baker. A lot of people seem to loath him but i love the whimsy.
radio 5 has gone downhill a bit although the breakfast show is still good imo.
Danny Baker used to do the breakfast show in the early days of radio 5 and a wonderfully eclectic show it was too.
his 606 was brilliant too & i don't really like football, it was just very funny.

6 music is brilliant

As is Danny Baker on Radio 5 on Saturday mornings

3 people in a row agreeing they like Danny Baker, I'm not sure that has ever happened before

Used to enjoy Radio 5 breakfast show, however it now sounds more like Woman's Hour.

Indeed, I think 5 got a visit from the sincerity squad, sick making smoke blowing nonsense.

Im also a pop master fan, i have stopped work in the 3 different regions i have worked in at 1029

So much fun created from popmaster its the best comp around.

I am having to get into this radio 6 i keep reading about.

I work outside maintaining your electricity supply so i have the radio on all day. the routine is a little bit of Venessa then Chris Evans who is very good at his job, then pop master, 11 its kisstory for 1 hour, they do old skool music for 30 mins, back for JV winding people up then the afternoons are poor, maybe some archers if i time it right. Then very little radio if the bbc 4 radio does not have an agenda.

Been listening to radio 2 at work every day mon-fri from about 2000, back then Steve wright was one of the djs I looked forward too most, now he really irritates me, and the 2 clowns with there anecdotes are so boring. He's well past his shelf life and it's time to go I'm afraid.... radio heaven for me would be ken Bruce from 8am to 4.30pm, Chris Evans should listen to his show and mabye find out what humour is!!!

Can I put in a good word for Mark and Lard's former Radio 1 afternoon show, not least of the presence of FAT HARRY WHITE.

An absolute saint has put a TWO HOUR compilation of Fat Harry White monologues on YouTube for us to enjoy at

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkC2dxFfrmg

Radcliffe & Maconie is better than Mark & Lard, but both are/were great. Common denominator being Mark Radcliffe, of course. Best DJ ever! (That'll displease some John Peel fans, no doubt.) I don't get to listen to Marc Riley's show that often but he seems a lot less fun than in his Lard days. I was listening when he announced the death of his former bandleader Mark E Smith though. Handled it very well.

Oh, and even though I rarely listen these days, I think Danny Baker is excellent. Does he still have that annoying Lynsey Wotsit on though?

Steve Wright is from the Smashie and Nicey school of DJ ing.

hes very good, a natural broadcaster

He's popular with simple folk.

Substitute the op's Steve Wright for Chris Evans and where do i sign.The worst way to start the day is to turn on radio 2 at 6.30am.

Evans and Wright very similar in style. Surround yourself with sycophants and pretend you're one of us.

Sounds of the 60s 7ish today with Johnnie Walker was excellent.

maybe but not a patch on the much missed sounds of the 60s show, wright the other day said "wow what a cool guy that Obama is" yeah righty-o steve but try telling that to the people of Libya

JW a good second to the late lamented Brian. Much better than the Tony Blackburn Show usually on at this time!

well sayed Slicer

Thank you for your support Mr McCann. I will wear it when mine is no longer functional.t!

no worries

We are of an age to remember quality tunes, Mr McC. None of this (C)Rap stuff that is so popular today.

60s were the best,even the bad ones lol

Lots of excellent new music being made

you just need to know the  stations and programmes to listen to

wish youd tell me then big H, to me all these new woman singers all sound the same,and the songs sound the same,or is it me getting older??

As Big H said, that's because you are listening to the wrong stations. 6 music is infinitely better than any other station and as was said earlier on the thread, it's worth the licence fee alone. Don't get to listen to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie much as that's when the racing is on but many great shows from Lauren Laverne, Mary Anne Hobbs, Huey Morgan, Guy Garvey etc etc.

If only there was a station that played music without all the carp thrown in. Today's DJs are all so "up themselves". Who needs it?

mary anne hobbs! she took on nicky Campbell once live on air,called him a pompous bastard and for a while was winning,but the bastard got the better of her and won on points--real shame

Wrightey does love self congratulatory messages and that rubbish about serious jocking has to be a commercial angle.He has become tiresome.

Ericster, you must be listening to the wrong stations too.

asparagus,
many years ago I stopped listening to radio because of that, that, thing.
Occasionally I switch my radio on but I'm old now and classic fm does for me.

Just listening to Tom Robinsons show on 6 music - his show is always worth a listen

never listen to steve wright know dreadful stuff

I flip between planet rock, gold and some talksport with the odd classics thrown  -rest are mainly gash