Steve Wright

[val-sis]

Steve Wright (Radio 2 weekdays 2-5p.m.) is driving me NUTS !!! We have had to get used to, and ignore the " Love the show " from everyone supposedly that writes in....but I have been trying to ignore the singing along to (usually out of tune, purposely )to the tracks. He must think this is funny. Every now and then you can accept I suppose, if he must, but it seems its every other one now, I find I'm waiting for it. Is it me or is it annoying anyone else.

[mickrog]

totally agree with you

[Postdog]

Well, bit radical maybe, but if I don't like a show, I don't even listen to it

[Zhukov]

Highly Annoying has been Steve Wright"s schtick,for donkey"s years though?

[Baldric]

I listen-in a couple of times a week, enjoy it for a while but can't take too much in one go.

[andy-hughes]

I remember Julie Burchill writing about him over twenty years ago saying that he behaves like a one-man Performing Rights Society becuase he either talks or sings over the last twenty seconds of every record he plays - back in those days, people taped stuff of the radio.

I used to like him, but his Smash-esque self-aggrandisment - delivered without a sniff of irony - is getting to be far too much now.

And why is it The Big Show? What does that make every other daytime show on Radio Two? Another self-inflicted big-up, it's not clever at all.

And don;t even get me started on tha Bozeman woman. How anyone who is simply supposed to declaim traffic information can big up her part into some kind of radio 'Mae West' is utterly beyond me. She thinks she sounds sexy and alluring, and yet she is incapable of delivering two lines of script without either falling over her words or stangling on her own saliva - or both! She should be replaced by Bobby Pryor who sounds really nice, and does the job with no thrills. let's be honest, traffic is not sexy, and that's the end of it.

High time the get rid of 'Wrighty' and brought Stuart Maconie in - his stint on Drive Time, sandwiched as it was between the terminally dull Johnny Walker and the sneeringly pompous Simon Mayo was wonderful radio, and he should be given the post forthwith.

Oh - and no, I don't listen any more, for the above reasons.

[val-sis]

Well, it seems that most of you agree, and I agree with everything you say Andy, apart from Sally....must admit, quite like her....and Tim too, they are the only ones that save it for me... I do listen to other channels , but hey ho, just sometimes someone sits in for them. ..

[cathfromsaron]

see that little button? ... redial now!

i have listened to radio4 extra for the last few months and feel much calmer!

cath x

[val-sis]

:) maybe I'll give it a try !! Calm sounds good.

[carlton23]

I enjoy Golden Oldies or Smooth, for when I was at work Steve Wright was on all afternoon and he drives me nuts.

[quizzywig]

Don't get me started on the dire Johnny Walker, because we left Salisbury at 4 on Sunday we had to endure the dreadfully boring Walker for and hour. I know we could change stations but Radio 4 is too wordy for me (Mr Q likes it) and 3 is too heavy and 1 is not worth any mention at all. Thank God for 5 o'clock and the wondefully entertaing Paul O'Grady! Much better to travel with! (Going down on Saturday morning it was Zoe Ball - slightly more tolerable than the awful Lynn Parsons!)

[woofgang]

I like Steve Wright and Lynn Parsons (ducks)

[Sipowicz]

Richard Allinson should be given a prime time slot.

[quizzywig]

Can't stand Richard Allinson either - had to endure him before Zoe Ball! What utter tosh he comes out with!

[maggiebee]

Anyone like Chris Evans?

[cathfromsaron]

BTW radio 4 *extra* is chat, comedy and plays!

cath x

[woofgang]

I like Richard Allinson too.......And Alex Lester.

[jedimistress]

I can't bear Steve Wright and all his laughing at his own jokes. I turn over when he is on. And the stupid Steve Wright in the afternoon whip crack jingle. I can't listen to Chris Evans either. Have never seen the funny side at all. Give me Radio 6 in the mornings any day.

[nungate]

He's the reason I switched from Radio 1 to Radio 2 about 20 years ago! Can't abide the man on the radio I always switch him off

[quizzywig]

I do like Chris Evans, I like his music and because of his promotion we had a Christmas no. 1 that thoroughly deserved it!

[T&S]

I think Vanessa Feltz should have Steve's radio slot

(runs away....)