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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: Stuart Maconie Drivetime |
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How great to be able to listen to the radio again between 5 and 7 pm. That's about the time of my journey home from work. I just want to chill. Tonight we got Led Zepp followed by the Jackson 5.
Managed to persuade 2 of my fellow commuters to listen, both liked it.
Tomorrow I may seize the Train Guards intercom and instruct all pasengers with DAB to listen. |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Have only managed to catch odd snatches as I had phone calls but I'd forgotten what it's like to be able to have the radio on at that time. It's a treat!
Is it only this week?
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Miss Understood Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Not another Chris Evans bashing thread. Haven't they been done to death on these forums?
I like Chris Evans - and I also like Stuart Maconie. So, there you go. |
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RobbieM
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: Re: Stuart Maconie Drivetime |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum wrote: | How great to be able to listen to the radio again between 5 and 7 pm. |
Yes, I agree. It's nice not to be shouted at or teated like an imbecile. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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Miss Understood Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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Then if you don't like Chris Evans, don't tune in. Problem solved. You might not like him but over 5 million other listeners do (and I am one of them). So, I think you're slightly outnumbered there, don't you? |
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RobbieM
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Miss Understood wrote: | Then if you don't like Chris Evans, don't tune in. Problem solved. |
I don't. Really, I don't. Honest.
Miss Understood wrote: | You might not like him but over 5 million other listeners do (and I am one of them). So, I think you're slightly outnumbered there, don't you? |
Diddums! _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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Miss Understood Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Then if you don't listen to Chris Evans, how do you know what his programme is like? |
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RobbieM
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Miss Understood wrote: | Then if you don't listen to Chris Evans, how do you know what his programme is like? |
I do sometimes hear the horrible squawking sound that comes out of his big ginger gob by accident - like when I'm in a shop or having my hair permed, Kevin Keegan style. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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Miss Understood Guest
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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It's funny how so many people who dislike certain radio presenters, hear them in shops! I remember a long time ago somebody complaining that their local pub used to have Desmond Carrington and Russell Davies on Sunday afternoons. Quite a few people enjoy eating or chilling out to the sound of great music. |
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RobbieM
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Miss Understood wrote: | It's funny how so many people who dislike certain radio presenters, hear them in shops! |
Too true. I guess you could call it a "captive audience" even for a short period. Mind you. the perm always seems to take an age when Evans is on the old tranny! _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: Re: Stuart Maconie Drivetime |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum wrote: | How great to be able to listen to the radio again between 5 and 7 pm. |
I disagree, Maconi is dull dull dull on Drivetime. He’s a real party pooper. He has no rapport with the rest of the team, his abilities are dwarfed by not only the other presenters on the Divetime show but by the phone-in guests too. I’m not interested in where he was in 1976 or who he was talking to in the back room of pub way back then. Yawn. Don’t speak, play that funky music and listen to the band.
You would think a music anorak would have known that Madness had only ever had one number one. Sheesh, even I knew that … and I know nothing! |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:19 am Post subject: |
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Miss Understood wrote: | It's funny how so many people who dislike certain radio presenters, hear them in shops! I remember a long time ago somebody complaining that their local pub used to have Desmond Carrington and Russell Davies on Sunday afternoons. |
Yeah, who was that ? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: Re: Stuart Maconie Drivetime |
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Rachel wrote: | iknewdavidjacobsmum wrote: | How great to be able to listen to the radio again between 5 and 7 pm. |
I disagree, Maconi is dull dull dull on Drivetime. He’s a real party pooper. He has no rapport with the rest of the team, |
Having heard him yesterday (an unusual luxury, being able to have the radio on at that time, as tv-loving family were late home) I have to agree. Although I generally like my presenters to be unobtrusive he is just wrong as cover for that slot, and not just because he is such a contrast to the earache you get from the absent Evans.
If the premise is that you want a fairly lively, topical show, with travel and business news, for people travelling home from work, then you do want someone less likely to put them to sleep. _________________ Ron |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19391 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: |
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Miss Understood wrote: | Not another Chris Evans bashing thread. Haven't they been done to death on these forums?
I like Chris Evans - and I also like Stuart Maconie. So, there you go. |
Nobody mentioned CE until you did so why don't you just leave it?
You're not 'new' to this board and you won't fool anyone.
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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I enjoyed listening to SM last week as we made our way back to our holiday cottage, it made driving through Norfolk even more enjoyable ( esp after Fish and Chips in Potter Heigham) _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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I heard Chris Evans was back with that funny trailer. I hope he didn't hurt is back or was that why he was off for a week? |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Was the funny 'trailer' atttached to his part paid for by licence payers new car? |
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RobbieM
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 233 Location: Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Briant wrote: | Was the funny 'trailer' atttached to his part paid for by licence payers new car? |
In that the car for which I paid for a tappet? Ah yes.......... Good old Chris. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Robbie M:
You never know, Eleanor Rigby has just turned up!!!!!!!!! |
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igs007
Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 190
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Stuart Maconie Drivetime |
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Rachel wrote: | iknewdavidjacobsmum wrote: | How great to be able to listen to the radio again between 5 and 7 pm. |
I disagree, Maconi is dull dull dull on Drivetime. He’s a real party pooper. He has no rapport with the rest of the team, his abilities are dwarfed by not only the other presenters on the Divetime show but by the phone-in guests too. I’m not interested in where he was in 1976 or who he was talking to in the back room of pub way back then. Yawn. Don’t speak, play that funky music and listen to the band.
You would think a music anorak would have known that Madness had only ever had one number one. Sheesh, even I knew that … and I know nothing! |
Stuart Maconie is an experienced broadcaster, and is anything but dull. The problem is you think he's dull in this slot because you're used to hearing someone with a different presentation style and personality to Stuart. Remember when JW used to do the show? Would that now be classed as dull dull dull by you?
Just because Stuart doesn't talk at great length with the other presenters (Fox etc.) it doesn't make him a party pooper. Quite the opposite, in fact. Bear in mind he's been covering the slot for years, and has proven time and time again that he has a solid rapport with listeners. He keeps the show running smoothly. As for saying 'Don't speak, play that funky music...' I think that sentence would be better aimed at Evans. Stuart loses much of the 'filler' (ok, some people like it!) and keeps the show flowing much better. There was a great sense of irony with his 'Pie Tunes' feature, which I loved.
I know this has turned into an Anti-Evans post, but I'm trying to contextualise my reasons why Stuart isn't dull. It's a credit to Radio 2 that they place him in the coveted cover slot, because after all, R2 is 'Where Different Works'. |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Some good points there igs007 but....
Experience? I'm an experienced Project Manager but I've never been any good at it.
Ok the Dull thing- I did mean in comparison to Chris E in that slot. Stuart's evening show is quite good..... "he" is not dull.
JW isn't and wasn't dull in that slot .... get a move on... he's fab!
The Party Pooper thing - I don't recall if it were the Monday or Tuesday but he was really rude to Foxy - and completely knocked her off her stride- if he'd done that to me live on air - I'd have picked him up by his ankles (live on air), and held him upside down until he apologised. (live on air)
I'm a listener - he has no raport with me.
I didn't "get" the pie things. |
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mark occomore
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Stuart has a good music knowledge. I think he's a good broadcaster, but he's an average presenter for Drivetime. |
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RobbieM
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Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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mark occomore wrote: | Stuart has a good music knowledge. I think he's a good broadcaster, but he's an average presenter for Drivetime. |
Drivetime really does need a good broadcaster. _________________ ONline, ONdigital and ONtherocks: BBC Radio 2. Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door. |
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igs007
Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 190
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Fair points Rachel, I'm glad we both agree on JW (I was getting worried there!)
My only quibble would be your 'experience' comment. I'm sure you're very good at your job I guess you could also say Mr Evans is an 'experienced' broadcaster, but it also doesn't mean that he's all that great! Still, as we have both proven, that is a matter of opinion!
I'm still of the view that Stuart is not a dull broadcaster in that slot. If we start taking this idea that a stand in should be like the main presenter, then surely R2 is shooting itself in the foot. I don't think Mark Radcliffe is much like Steve Wright, and that there are a few differences between the MR stand in show, and SW's regular 2-5 show. And surely if it was that bad when Stuart stood in, the ratings would be noticably dipping, and we'd get more Simon Mayo or John Inverdale in that slot. |
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